Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Aluminum Spider
Filed under: Milling Machine, Projects | Tags: Aluminum CNC Projects
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A neat aluminum spider. Not hand machined, but still a cool little project.
Fire Pistons
Filed under: Projects | Tags: Fire Piston Aluminum Projects Make
Comments (2) I’m not really sure how I grew up camping all the time, many times in the in fairly remote wilderness, as well as becoming an Eagle Scout without ever hearing about fire pistons. A while back I came across this post on Make about them and did some research. It seems like a great machining project, and a fairly simple one at that.
Tic Tac Toe
Filed under: Projects, Uncategorized | Tags: Make, Projects, Thingverse
Leave a comment Here’s a neat fairly simple looking tic tac toe board. CNC’d, but it doesn’t seem like it’d be hard to do manually either.
Change of Pace
Dusting off the cobwebs here. The initial purpose of this blog was a good attempt but perhaps too ambitious with the limited time I have between work, children, and other activities. So I’m going to change up the format to be more of a collection of metal working projects and neat examples I come across online.
A simple project idea – Dead Drop spike
Make Online has a post about a Dead Drop spike that’s currently for sale in their Maker’s Marketlace. The maker, Brian Dereu, also has some other cool projects and things for sale there (Brian Dereu’s store). This seems like it would be a great simple beginner project on the lathe. A single bar of aluminum, some turning, tapping, drilling and threading.
Dead Drop spike project idea
Silver Cog Blog 