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…
This puzzle was a lot of fun, which is probably why I didn’t take a huge amount of photos during its construction, I was too immersed in making it. But essentially this puzzle relies on the ambient noise level in a room dropping below a certain threshold for 15 second. In practice this would mean…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A friend of mine is trying to find ways of turning e-waste into education devices, one source of e-waste that is ridiculously common while also yielding heaps of parts are desktop printer/scanner combos. You see them thrown out virtually everywhere. The neat thing about them is that they use optical encoders to drive DC servo…
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…
I decided to print myself a unique Halloween costume this year after being inspired by pictures of deep sea angler fish. I wanted to make something quirky yet still a little bit terrifying in a good way. What I ended up with was an angler fish helmet painted in fluro UV paints with very scary…