This is a stand to hold my Wacom Intuos Pro pen tablet. I wanted the tablet to be safely stored on an edge instead of face up on my desk. Since I al...
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Wacom Intuos Pro Stand
Progress: 100%
Welsh Dragon Art & Swords Easel
Progress: 100%
The Welsh Dragon (Welsh: Y Ddraig Goch, meaning the red dragon) is a heraldic symbol that appears on the national flag of Wales. The oldest recorded u...
Toyota Corolla Door Handle (1999)
Progress: 40%
My handle broke on my old car. It's a 1999 Toyota Corolla.This is the second handle now that I've gone through, so I figured I'd rather design one mys...
Oliver Lathe Restoration
Progress: 83%
Oliver Lathe Restoration Xerocraft has a Oliver pattern makers lathe model 25A. Oliver Machinery Company was based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was ...
CNC routed custom cases
Lately I've been working toward better methods of designing custom cases to fit arbitrary objects, including circuit boards. My original intended use ...
Refurbishing a rusted hub motor from an electric bicycle kit
Progress: 100%
At some point my bicycle's hub motor got rusty, probably while I was in a wetter, colder climate in which the roads were salted. Rust had expanded th...
Xerocraft Display Case
Progress: 100%
I've restarted work on a display case that will replace the table next to the laser cutter. It will act as a display of things people make at Xerocraf...
City High Retro Arcade
Progress: 100%
Picture for City High Retro ArcadeHello! I'm nearly done with this build. It's a retro gaming arcade running MAME on an old XP machine. The controls...
The Fletcher Capstan Table
Progress: 10%
The Fletcher Capstan table is a $50,000 table manufactured by theFletcher Burwell-Taylor Company. The table's main function is to expand from a small ...
Paper circuits class
On Saturday, May 9, 2015, from noon to 2pm, I offered a "Fun with Paper Circuits!" workshop at Xerocraft. Three people, besides me, made paper circuit...
Toward home-scale aquaponics
(Cover image "Tech Loops" reproduced under Creative Commons BY-NC 2.5 license from http://xkcd.com/1579/.)Home-scale aquaponics providing food worth t...
CNC router classes
I prototyped a CNC Shark class on 10/3 and then offered it again on 10/24. The students have been great and have seemed to catch on well. The class ha...
The WizardMaker web app
The purpose of this joint Xerocraft and Code for Tucson project is to develop and test a web app that makes it easy for non-programmers to create h...
Turbofan Jet Engine Model
So all of you who are into 3D printing are probably VERY familiar with the websiteThingiverse. It's a great library and one of the most commonly used ...
Laser-cut 'jigsaw' puzzle
It cost only $0.59to print a photo at Office Depot, by color laser,on regular lettersized office paper.I sprayed 3M "contact adhesive" from a spraycan...
PID controller for oven
Originally I was planning to build a PID-controlled toaster oven for solder reflow. I bought all the parts.Then others at Xerocraft pointed out that t...
primitive sewing demystifies
Progress: 100%
Probably to my wife's chagrin, I have just repaired my Keen Newport sandals, which a family member dubbed my "monkey slippers." I bought the narrow bu...
Treadmill desk and ergonomic observations
Progress: 100%
I set up a workstation on the arms of a used treadmill I bought via Craigslist.The treadmill had arms. I put a shelf board across the arms. I put my c...
Quick improvised cabinet or crate
Progress: 100%
I was asked to build a wooden enclosure, about 2'x2' and 4' high. It was needed quickly and I received materials before I had time to design it. I imp...
Flowing glass table
There is a collection of artwork by Greg Klassen. Ever since I saw it, I knew I HAD to attempt it myself.He dabbles in a lot of different work, but th...
Programmable Magnets
There is a company out there called Correlated Magnetics Research,This company has a method of "programming magnets". What I mean by that, is that the...
Grinded Metal Art
There is a man named Chris Derubeis. He specialized in grinded metal art.Other people do this as well, but I've never seen it as unique and beautiful ...
Go-Kart build
Back in college I had a class.... a very unique class. It was my "Engineering Ethics" class.... except all we did was get into two teams and design + ...
Reverse Trike Go-Kart Build
I have to order 36 ft of 1in #14 steel tubing to start my build. I'm using a 3.5hp Chainsaw motor with a live axle. Will be starting my build 4/15/201...
Experimental gardening, hydroponics, aquaponics
Progress: 5%
In December 2010 I quit a job as Instrumentation Engineer at U of A's Biosphere 2--the day before I was to have started it! I sometimes have regretted...
Computer vision marker tracking, plus mechanical fabrication, for physics experiment
Progress: 100%
With a friend, I conducted a torsion pendulum experiment. I built the apparatus and software.The software, TrackXY, uses a webcam and a computer visio...
Stencil for solder paste for printed circuit board
Progress: 100%
I used a Silhouette vinyl cutter to make a stencil to apply solder paste for printed circuit boards.[I don't recommend this approach, rather I suggest...
Digitally-controllable AC light dimmer assembled with solder paste reflow with toaster oven
Progress: 95%
This light dimmer, with 3D printable or CNC routable case design, makes it safe for you to control dim or switch AC powered devices with safe low-volt...
Seed sprouting experiment with Arduino, toward better grow lights
Progress: 50%
I am designing a botany experiment, in seed germination. I wanted to measure the effect of light intensity and wavelength on seed sprouting (germinati...
Smartphone mobile web control of colored lights for public art sculpture
Progress: 50%
My client asked me to design software & electronics for his public art sculpture commission for a public library in Goodyear, AZ. The client cance...