Xerocraft Member Projects

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3d printer flower balls

Progress: 100%

Printed with XC 3d printers. flower balls light up and change colors.  
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Wood beads of courage lathe box

Progress: 100%

Beads of Courage box for children with caner. Children get beads for procedures and need to store them. Turned on the lathe and then cut in half
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Beads of Courage box

Progress: 100%

Beads of  Courage box for children who have cancer and receive bead. 3d printed arch style
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Cab Crat

Progress: 15%

Honestly i don't know how to explain this project to anyone else before its finished. Have you seen the first toy story? You know that kid next door w...
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Electric Wheelchair Steampunk Glider

Progress: 100%

Here is a finished project by me and Steve Bowtie I want to share :) My sister-in-law was going to go to Comicon with us. I was making her a really c...
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Burning Man Project for 2022

Welding 8 different types of bicycles to be incorporated into an art piece that will be placed at Burning Man in 2022. Progress slow but sure.
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Wacom Intuos Pro Stand

Progress: 100%

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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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 + ...
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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...