Category: DIY
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Wood Bending with Steam!
Erin and Andrew needed to build a circular crown for their yurt. So they decided to steam bend it in a wood streamer they put together one day at DIYode. After 3+ hours of steam the wood planks were bent around the form. You need lots of muscle and quite a few clamps! More Steam…
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More Toys Erm. I Mean Tools!
A couple days ago, a whole list of new tools have arrived in the shop! This means an end to our big ticket spending. Thank you so much Ontario Trillium Foundation http://www.otf.ca/ for the money you have provided us with to spend on new tools and equipment around the shop. It has made…
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Lantern Making
I have been going to the Kensington Market Winter Solstice off and on for a very long time. It’s always a fun evening in the dark with hundreds of other people and all those Lanterns! This year we were finally able to make it to the Lantern making workshop. Here is my first attempt. Not…
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The Cyclospinnerator
So, it was time to hack together something fun a few weeks back. We wanted to build something for kids, something we could take around to events that would engage the little people. We got an old broken stationary bike off of freecycle, took it to bits, removed all that was unnecessary, moved the gears…
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More Fun With Lasers
So my second serious project for the Laser Cutter was to create Acrylic cases for a number of loose collector coins I’ve accumulated over time. I started by creating my layouts in InkScape and saving them to DXF format which the LaserCut software will import. The basic pattern is three (3) layers of 2mm Acrylic…
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Playing With The Laser Cutter
So I tried out my first serious project with the laser cutter after several trial runs to figure out how it works. I downloaded the Spiderasaur schematics from Thingiverse ’cause I thought it looked kind of cool. Ultimately I want to do one in Acrylic but for a start I just did one in 1/8″…
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The Pathology of DIY
I think it was Carl Sagan who first said “If you are going to make a patio from scratch, first you must invent the universe”. I’m not sure if Carl was pro or anti DIY (I’d like to think ‘pro’) but it strikes a nerve, nonetheless. You see, it would seem that I am incapable…
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Eastern Bluebird Boxes
Here are the Eastern Bluebird Boxes I built last week and put up over the weekend.