Category: Other
Custom Guitar Pick
Last year, I participated in some kind of hackathon project where makers can come together and brainstorm ideas in order to help a group of physically challenged people achieve their respective wishes... Read More
Small Mountainbike Mod
Phew, what a long time it has been. 5 months since the last post… The Corona pandemic certainly had a hand in this, but procrastination from my end probably is the mail culprit. To be completely... Read More
Blog Update
After some thinking, I’ve decided to take things a bit slower with the blog. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now, and there’s always been a looming pressure to post new co... Read More
Egg slicer restoration (1)
Over a year ago I bought this egg slicer on a flea market in my city. I don’t really need an egg slicer if I’m being completely honest, but I liked the vintage looking design, and it cost ... Read More
Slingshot casting
Now that I have a working furnace, it’s time to make something more or less useful with it. My old crucible had to be replaced though as it got punctured and started leaking. I didn’t have... Read More
Heavy Metal! – (2)
Previous article HERE I wasn’t really getting somewhere with the barbecue furnace, so I got myself a better version that uses propane gas. Over time I have been collecting a lot of aluminium scr... Read More
Heavy Metal! – (1)
I’ve wanted to try this out ever since I saw the video on The King Of Random’s Youtube channel. Eventually I’d like to try and cast my slingshot design out of solid aluminium, but th... Read More
LAYZOR plans now available
The LAYZOR project has been dominating all my free time since the beginning of the year. This post marks another milestone in this crazy journey. So what happenend? Well I finally finished the complet... Read More
Happy 2018!
A new year also marks the birthday of this blog. I’ve been doing this for two years now, and I am starting to notice interest is growing. In all fairness, updates from my end were a fair amount ... Read More
In Shadows & Dust …
I recently bought this cat-to-lion conversion kit and thought this was too funny not to share. Enjoy!... Read More
Rhinocam post-processor
Here’s a quickie for people who use Rhinocam. Mecsoft has recently released an X-carve post processor. While this is great, there were 2 features that were missing imo, so I changed their post ... Read More
Skull 3D print
What do you do when you just 3D scanned an object? 3D print it off course. I printed it full scale, which took about 20(!) hrs… Never doing that again… The software had calculated an ETA... Read More
Skull 3D model
Today I tried the 123D catch software from Autodesk. It was on my to-do list for a long time, but a Shapeoko forum user encouraged me to try it out (after he saw my 360 degree lightbox blog post), so... Read More
Make America dumb again
As a worried citizen of the world, I support this initiative and invite everybody to react to this embarassment. Please visit this webpage: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/deartrumpusa/?fWtVLfb&pv=10... Read More
Frederico vs. kitchen
Sometimes destroying stuff is more fun than building things. Well… most of the time it is… 🙂... Read More