Flying Crank Ghost
This classic animatronic prop is “de rigueur” for any serious haunter.
Fender washer
Pinhole Panoramic Camera
I bought a new scanner recently, and soon found myself spelunking through drawers of old photos from my many misspent years in photography. Some of the most interesting shots were the pinhole camera experiments I had done as a teenager. With ghostly outlines from multi-minute exposures, and shapes warped into boomerangs by curved film, these […]
Better Nerf Gun
Like most geek-filled offices, at my workplace we have several Nerf guns and similar toy weapons floating about. Not impressed with the performance of my colleague Lester’s Nerf Maverick, a mainstay of Nerf’s suction-cup-dart-firing “N-Strike” series, I decided to build a better Nerf gun myself. Here’s the result: a simple weapon, single shot only, but […]
The MakerGear Mosaic 3D Printer – Part III: The X-Axis
This is the third of eight guides in a series documenting my build of MakerGear’s Mosaic desktop FDM/FFF 3D printer kit. the frame the Y-axis the X-axis the Z-axis the extruder the build platform the electronics the first print This part covers assembly of the X-axis systems, which is a straightforward process of bolting […]
The MakerGear Mosaic 3D Printer – Part I: The Frame
This is the first of an eight-part series documenting my build of MakerGear’s Mosaic desktop FDM/FFF 3D printer kit. the frame the Y-axis the X-axis the Z-axis the extruder the build platform the electronics the first print This part covers the assembly of the nine sections of the frame, which are laser-cut from 0.200″ plywood, […]
The MakerGear Mosaic 3D Printer – Part II: The Y-Axis
This is the second of eight guides in a series documenting my build of MakerGear’s Mosaic desktop FDM/FFF 3D printer kit. the frame the Y-axis the X-axis the Z-axis the extruder the build platform the electronics the first print This part covers assembly of the Y-axis systems. The largest subassembly in this system, the […]
Mini Electric Chair
How to electrocute the devilish Chucky doll of slasher movie fame.
