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A Woodcart
Now that I have moved away from MIT and am no longer spoiled sick by the awesome machine shops on campus, I am forced to resort to …other methods of construction. Fortunately, I still have one of those...
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Dowel Maker
Today I needed some dowels (for a project I will hopefully post about soon), but didn’t feel like going to the store, so I thought I would try making a dowel maker.There are some awesome plans for...
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Homemade Hand Tapper
Hi friends who read my blog. Here is a project that has taken just short of forever to finish mostly due to my new Real Person job and its associated Obligations, and minorly due to some tool troubles…...
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Treescooter! (part 1/2)
I made this scooter in response to Charles’ creation way back when. I started mine soon after he released his to the internet actually, and yea…so its taken a while…but here it is in all its...
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micro drill press
Hence concludes the many months where I couldn’t get my act together to post about my projects!! Here is a small one that I did a few weeks ago on my last visit to MIT. I spotted the chunk of aluminum...
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bamboo bike Part 1: Frame-building Jig
Almost 9 months ago I built a frame jig for a bamboo bike. Between work and life, I didn’t actually finish the bike until Thansgiving, and I’m only getting around to blogging about it now. Here’s the...
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bamboo bike Part 2: fitting the tubes
After building the jig that holds the lugs in place, it was time to fit the bamboo poles together. I found that Orchard Supply Hardware was the easiest place to get bamboo (neither Home Depot or Lowe’s...
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bamboo bike Part 3: lugs
With all the tubes tacked in place on the jig, I could start wrapping the lugs. This is a crazy messy business, so I wrapped everything besides the lugs in tape and plastic to minimize the epoxy clean...
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bamboo bike Part 4: brake bridge and water bottle holder
Besides the lugs, the other metal bits on this frame are the brake bridge and the screw bosses for the water bottle holder. For the brake bridge I started with some 1/2″ thick aluminum plate. I...
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bamboo bike Part 5: final sanding/finishing and assembly
In hindsight, I definitely applied too many separate layers than was necessary. This also meant that I sanded more than was necessary, and used more epoxy than was necessary. Anyhow, at last I arrived...
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wooden climbing holds and hang board
Climbing is fun, so is making climbing holds. Its also a good way to make good use of scrap wood. Here’s one with a finger pocket. drilling holes the drill bit does most of the carving clean up the...
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Fatigue: a study of flexures in a scooter
Introducing, Fatigue, my preemptively-named flexure-based scooter. fingers crossed for gradual, not sudden, failure You can see how a flexure is perfect for the rear brake, which has quite limited...
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homemade bike frame bags
In one week (eek, so soon!!) I will go on a long bike ride with Muffin. The plan is to post details of our adventure on amybikessomewhere.wordpress.com This weekend I worked on some bike frame bags to...
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roll top backpack
Lately I’ve been feeling like my trusty backpack of 4+ years (a cheap North Face knock off that I first met in a Hong Kong street market) is a bit bulky for the stuff I usually carry around these days....
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woodkart – it works!!
Oops, we finished this over a year ago, but I never got around to blogging. Better late than never, right? The title glosses over some details: since the last post, we added the seat, breaks, motors,...
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Take Flight for Kids
Today Tom and I brought some of our unique vehicles to the annual Take Flight for Kids festival held at the Reid Hillview Airport. Also exhibiting with us were tons of custom hotrod builders, model...
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small paring knife
Recently, my friend Nick gave me a knife blade that he forged. Here’s what he said about that process: “the knife is rather experimental. the steel is from a Timken bearing race. one side is ground...
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sleeping bag and compression sack
I am going on a backpacking trip. I want to carry as little as possible if I can, so I tried to make a lighter and smaller sleeping bag. First, I cheated by starting with a sleeping bag. It is one I...
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salt shaker
For some reason it is fun to make salt shakers. Here is one I started three and a half years ago and finished over the weekend. It consists of a section of Delrin tube sandwiched between two sheets of...
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top bar beehive
Almost two years ago, a friend of mine wanted help building a top bar bee hive with these instructions http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/support-files/how_to_build_a_tbh.pdf, so I thought I would build one...
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