Me Playing With Cars
A video that Dave made of my tinkerings
Hydraulic Automatic Gate Openers Built From Scrap Parts
Because of current world circumstances I’ve been forced to spend much more time tinkering in my workshop with far less income than is required for building kickass projects. However I’m relatively resourceful, hoard lots of materials and am rather good at scrounging, so I managed to keep myself occupied. I had previously been given a…
Kitsch Telephone Lamp
A friend of mine asked if I could help convert a vintage, bakelite, rotary dial phone into a table lamp. Obviously I couldn’t say no to such an absurd challenge, but found her expectation for the project to be somewhat unremarkable, all she wanted was a white LED bulb and an on/off switch… this simply…
Modifying Nerf Guns… Because Corona.
I found a Nerf Barricade and a Buzz Bee Tommy Gun at the local op shop for a few dollars and obviously didn’t have the maturity not to buy them. The reason I liked them is because unlike a lot of nerf guns these use two electric motors to feed counter-rotating flywheels which grip and…
USB Powered Heated Hoodie
I decided to modify one of my old hoodies with some 5 volt USB heating pads to see just how well they worked. I stitched the panels to the inside of the hoodie, and used doubled over cotton webbing to cover and protect the wire… and stop it stretching too. There were two pads either…
Wanhao Duplicator i3 Mini Heated Bed Modification.
I bought a Wanhao Duplicator i3 Mini from ebay for about $40 broken, figuring that it would be an easy repair. The screen was apparently not working, so i figured that it was probably a faulty LCD panel. After replacing the panel I soon discovered that the problem was somewhere else, and with a bit…
Danish Cottage Garden Bench
This is a bench based loosely on one that was in the front garden of the Copenhagen cottage that I grew up in. The cottage was from the 1920’s and most of the furniture was a mismatch of things from the 20’s right up until the 70’s, but I imagine the bench to be from…
Escape Room Projects
A little while ago I was asked to construct and design a few escape room puzzles for a new room at Escape Room Melbourne. It started out as just a few rudimentary puzzles… but it quickly escalated and I ended up constructing and installing all of the puzzles for the room. This also included designing…
Clown Head Ball Puzzle
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…
Dart Board Puzzle
This is a puzzle that I quite enjoyed coming up with, it has a nice old world feel to it. It’s simply a channel behind a dart board, with a magnetic plunger that releases a key when the magnetised medal is placed on it. The channel and plunger are 3D printed, there is a magnet…
RFID Puzzle
This is a simple swap the object puzzle using RFID and Arduino. Each RFID reader is connected to an Arduino Nano, and the two puzzle modules communicate via a high/low logic state single wire connection. This way the two modules only need a light gauge 3 core wire in order to power and communicate with…