The client wanted a box that would open, play a sound and give the guests a bottle of wine for their efforts in playing. The tokens would be unlocked and given to guests for solving various puzzle, and once they had 5, they would search for this box, slip their tokens in, and get loaded…
After making all the ball puzzles, we realised that we needed an interesting way to sort them in such a way as to give a combination for a lock. The original idea of using buoyancy failed, so I quickly came up with this prop taking heavy inspiration from carnival clown games. The mechanism for this…
I’m currently incubating some bantam chicken eggs and wanted a candler so that I can see how the chicks are progressing. It’s dead simple to build, all you need is a miniature Osram LED globe, an old power cord, and a miniature on/off switch. I scrounged all of my bits from throw-outs, with the exception…