Make it your own d#mn self

Make it snappy…

Some of the earliest designs I did for ShopBot in the late 1990’s…the work station and the coffee cabinet…used a snap joint that utilized the springy-ness of plywood to hold them together. They were cut as “hooks” that flexed sideways to let you assemble and dis-assemble the pieces without hardware.

The downside of offering too much choice

I’ve always been interested in digital fabrication’s ability…

Stools for Maker Faire

A month or so before one of the early Maker Faires…maybe the first Austin Faire in 2008?..I got an email from the MAKE…

Pete’s legs

Tiny boats

Boats are in my heart, and along with using my ShopBot to cut bits and pieces for full sized boats I occasionally made little boats as…

It’s puzzling

Once the word got around that I was willing to work on projects for teachers, I started to get a lot of requests. I had to turn down…

Don’t be afraid to dig in

Just because you can, that doesn’t always mean you should…

The Wheel of Kilmon!

About the same time as I was working on the rubber band racers, I was asked by another teacher at the school if I could…