Generate it in any size.

Has an experimental feature to include an extra set of inner walls to protect the hinges from the contents.

A heart shaped box you can cut out and fill with something nice for your sweetie... Just in time for Valentine's Day

I recently built the Ninja CNC kit from CNCSNAP.com. They include some pretty good harware but I wanted my machine to be able to cut heavier material. So i began making upgrades to the machine. I replaced the laser cut motor mounts with HEAVY DUTY 3D printed ones that are probably a little "over" built. But stronger is better right? I also designed a very robust tool holder that fits the motor they supply with the kit. I love this tool holder, it works great. Note: you will need to drill a hole in the end of the clamp to bolt it together. I recommend a small diameter machine screw. Next I stiffened up the guide rods with a set of support claps on each rod. I made them slightly under sized so you will need to run a 1/4" drill through them. My "Y" axis coupler broke so I replaced it with thing 7059. I can't find the corner bracket file I used to stiffen up the frame but I'll post it when I do. I also bolted together my "Z" carriage because it wanted to split with putting the tool holder one it.
If you have any questions or want me to make other upgrade/ design changes just let me know.
Thanks and I hope you put these files to good use.

youtube.com/watch?v=GYD6TE_If6U

Say hello to the 6 Packer, the awesomest way to transport your glass bottled beverage of choice. The 6 Packer is constructed of 3/16" thick laser cut ply wood and assembled with 4-40 1/2" screws and nuts. The bottle holes will accept anything from the run of the mill long neck bottles to IBCs to short chubby craft beer bottles.

The 6 Packer was designed with openscad and is completely parametric. You can change material thickness, bottle diameter, fastener size, hand grip size re-render and cut out using your favorite laser cutter!

What's that? You don't have a laser cutter? You can purchase a 6 packer directly from me over at Etsy. timogiles.etsy.com Enjoy!

Yo dawg I heard you like picks...so I made a pick shaped box so you can pick while you pick your pick...

Another riff on the living hinge, using it for the sides of a curved box rather than an actual hinge.

A marble maze made from wood (1.1" x 0.20" Pine).

A mini digger executive toy. 4 moveable joints, rotating base, 2 arm joints and bucket control from the 2 levers at the back.

These are available as kits through my website.
msraynsford.blogspot.com/2012/01/mini-digger.html

With the new series of GoT coming I saw this advert as a pencil drawing and I thought it would make a really nice wood and veneer piece.

I like the living hinge idea very much, but think it's just as useful in a static context where the wood stays in one place. I like the idea of being able to make curved wooden objects by pinning the hinge in a particular position.

This is a 1.5" diameter cable flange. It was design for my work bench which is 1" thick. The flange inserts into a hole cut with 1.5" hole saw. It helps to protect electrical cables from damage caused by the abrasion from moving the cables through a work bench repeatedly.

Stand for holding music, papers, tablet or other such things

First, I want to apologize to the trees they deserved better than this. Carpentry is clearly not my forte.

Over at I Heart Engineering we have been scaling up production of some of our products store.iheartengineering.com/I-Heart-Engineering-Tripod-Adapter/dp/B004ET5VLG using MakerBot ToM #5667 "The Future". However the ABS fumes can be somewhat unpleasant and not everyone enjoys hearing stepper motors all day long so we threw together this box like structure. Another benefit of the box is that it cuts down on drafts and helps ensure that large parts turn out flat. Finally one nice feature is that the door stays open once opened, the door also closes. The primary downside of the current design is that the printer can not be removed without unscrewing the side.

This is a mdf made linbin.

Plastic linbins arn't cheap, and you can't just buy a few fold-able cardboard ones. So lasercut them instead!

Designed for 3mm material. I make mine out of mdf!

Looking to remake of the original puzzle by Sabu Oguro, I stumbled across a set of dxf files for each piece already on thingiverse
thingiverse.com/thing:1453

I ended up modifying each file to round off the corners and create a single path for the laser to cut around, I also added a tray to hold all the pieces in the basic shape.

My original post about these can be found here
msraynsford.blogspot.com/2011/12/pentominos-2.html

This is a set of button boxes for use on large CNC machines for emergency stop (E-STOP) applications.

The spindle control is for passing through power to a router, so it has a power switch and an easily press-able emergency stop. The two other boxes go back to the PC and are used to stop motion on the X, Y & Z axes.

The electronic parts are all available from Altronics in Australia, but I'm sure other vendors have compatible stuff. Check their datasheets to see if the mountings are the same or just delete and add a new one.
S3228 - Rocker switch , Neon. (27.5mm by 13.6mm square mounting)
S0820 - E-stop buttons, (16mm dia hole.)
P8241 - GPO outlet, flush mountable. (most of a 33.5 mm dia circular hole and 4.5mm dia offset hole)

The box designs came from here. Check it out, well worth the $12.
frag-den-spatz.de/shop/boxgenerator/boxdesigner.html

I noticed a serious lack of Parallax Propeller related projects on Thingiverse, so I decided to make a holder for a QuickStart Board I received.

Based on oomlout's original Arduino holder design, I made a similar holder for the QuickStart Board. Jessica Uelmen from Parallax came to our Hacker Space, FamiLAB, and gave an instructional class on the boards. I made this to hand out to the students.

How do you replace a 1970s Style sliding door handle that broke at 2pm today!
Aha make use of SNIJLAB's bendy Plywood I used 6mm Plywood for this the drawing and making was done just within two hours.

Updated with current prices and has:-

Large letter slot that is now 250mm x 25mm

and the Letter slot which is now 165mm x 5mm

It also now includes Packet pricing for UK first class packets from 1kg upwards.. Packets above 1kg can only be 1st class

Prices seem to have gone up by 10%-12%
The larger the item or its weight
The price increase seems to be more like 10% than 12%

NOTE! When using this if you have to put ANY pressure on the letter or package to get it through it is a FAIL!!.

If you item falls straight through the intended slot it is OK.

You can not cheat on this!! "ANY" pressure required to get it through it will cost more to post as the item being posted moves up from a letter to a large letter or from a Large Letter to a Packet,

this is the frist CNC i have designed and build, well, i got that idea to build a CNC, when i started the design, and reding about CNC's i come a cross the REPRAP and fald in love, i have uses this to cut some depron for RC, new i'm working on making it a repstrap, by adding a reprap extruder, and using RAMPS electronics.


sorry about spelling errors, but i'm a little dyslexic, and english is my third language

Originally, I was going to make a wooden pendant and attach it to a necklace. However, it was too large the first time I printed it. Instead of re-printing it, I realized it would make a great ornament. Therefore, I added an extra hole right at the center and looped a piece of reed ribbon through it. I printed out a few more and gave them to my aunt and mom for the holidays!

This box originated at a RepRap Prusa Mendel 3D Printer workshop at RWTH Aachen.
hci.rwth-aachen.de/masterclass_3dprinter_14102011
It's just a nice looking box to put in your power supply and hide all the cables.

This is a War of the Worlds playset, when cut it renders 3 "walkers" and 8 tanks. The tanks are approximations of the WW1 british MK1 tank. The file is designed for 1/8" service board, which actually measures to 2.9mm to get a tight fit, scale the model as needed to fit your material. At the current size both the walkers and tanks are scaled to about 1/200.

I made four of these music boxes as christmas gifts to my family. The PDF pattern was generated with a Processing script, which I wrote. I've included the script for reference, although you only need the PDF to produce copies of the box. Each box is laser cut from a single piece of 12x12 plywood.

Here's a video of my daughter on Christmas: youtu.be/n9I88Lt0zUw

The lid of the box contains an inlaid Hilbert curve, a kind of space-filling fractal. A more detailed Hilbert curve is etched into the bottom of the box. The sides of the box contain inlays or holes in the shape of the letter J, which is the first initial of each of my four family members.

The pieces of the box fit together like a puzzle. Each side contains a single letter J, which I dyed different colors, using food coloring. These could also have been left as holes, to make the box louder.

The crank hole is designed for a very common type of hand-cranked movement, of which Kikkerland is one manufacturer.

Since I wasn't fast enough to order the official, hand blown glass, TARDIS Xmas Tree ornament from the BBC America shop, I decided to head down to my local hackerspace and make one or two on the laser cutter.

This started off as the "TARDIS Coloring" image by "Violet Succubus" on DeviantArt (http://fav.me/d310mxy). It was the cleanest, nicest, B&W line drawing of the TARDIS from head-on I could find.

There was much fiddling, adding to, filtering and re-drawing by myself and two guys (both named "Matt") at my hackerspace, but many of those lines are still hers and for them I thank her. I don't think it would have come out as nice as it did without such a solid place to start from.

PS - Yes, I know. The windows are wrong. I'll get to it, but until then I'm calling this version done. :D

here is a simple holder for filament spool. Made to work with M8 threaded rods and a couple of 608 bearings.
I tryied to reduce the plastic quantity

To test some design concepts at work, I needed to build a tripod-mounted bar to hold a pico projector and a foam-core "frame" in a way that both were adjustable.

When I was at the hardware store to buy the pieces to make the bar, I found these long wooden pieces that were exactly the shape of track I was going to build. Since they were laying behind the large saw they use to cut wood for customers, I asked what they were and discovered they were the pieces that hold the plastic strapping on the outside of the palettes of wood they get. The nice gentleman then said "you can just have one". Perfect! He told me to tell the checkout person it was a "runner". I don't know if that is a generic term for "free wood" or the actual technical name. Either way it was free which was awesome.

These pieces are probably of limited value as usable pieces (unless you have a "runner" and a pico projector and frame that need to be adjustable), but may be interesting for learning from or improving upon.

More back-story, discoveries, and pictures at my blog:

Part 1: myplasticfuture.com/free-3d-printer-awesome

Part 2: myplasticfuture.com/seeing-things-through-to-completion-learning

I modified the tardis and now it hangs from my tree!
It was a hit at the ornament exchange I went to!

Make your ornament with a special message on the bottom.

This OpenSCAD script will generate a 2 part fitting for making a large structure using wooden dowels and screws or bolts
This can be used to create a simple printing plastic spool holder

To Do:
add option for connecting struts between top and bottom in side by side mode

Changes from previous versions:

v1.3 2011-12-05
- allow user to make a simple pass through type version that can be used as a support for heavy loads of plastic
- allow user to choose if rounded or square corners
- allow user to choose if 4th screw hole included or not
- allow user to choose if it is a "top" type i.e. cylindrical holes for rods/dowels centre aligned along diagonal
- removed and fixed up the hardcoded translates and variables to make it more parametric
v1.2 2011-11-14
- reoriented and aligned shape
- Added option to choose individual hole countersinks
- added option to use mouse ears
- rounded corners of cube shape
v1.1 2011-11-14
Mark modified Maeve's Code
- added countersink, counterbore and captive nut ability and variable to module call
- added ability to easily make mirrored version
- cleaned up some of the code
- added some comments
- moved (centred) the screw hole for the on end dowel
- Added radius fudge factor to increase diameter to reduce need for post processing

v1.0 2011-11-10
- First attempt
- This was the first thing Maeve ever designed/programmed, pretty much all her own work too. Go you!

These are the plans for my wooden construction set, consisting of rods of various lengths with screw holes and a set of brackets. The brackets use T-slots to hold a captive screw/nut so all the parts can be laser cut.

Blogged about here: fasaxc.blogspot.com/2011/11/woodbug.html
Make picked it up here: blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/11/woodbug-a-community-commons-laser-cut-building-set.html

These are the laser cutting plans for the chassis for my ArduRoller balance bot.

Specs:
Chassis: laser cut 2.7mm bamboo ply (Ponoko); various M2.5 machine screws from Amazon; Instamorph low-melt-point thermoplastic to fill in the gaps.
Brains: 1 x Arduino Uno
Motor driver: 1 x Sparkfun Ardumoto
Motors: Sparkfun 2 x 24:1 gearmotor
Wheels: 1 set Sparkfun 70mm -- repaired with Instamorph after they cracked around the axle
Gyro: 1 x ADXRS613 (Sparkfun breakout) mounted at the axis of rotation
Accelerometer: 1 x ADXL203CE (Sparkfun breakout) mounted at the axis of rotation
Batteries: 2 x 3.7V Li-poly 850MAh (Sparkfun)

I've shared the code and assets at github.com/fasaxc/ArduRoller.

Video is at flickr.com/photos/fasaxc/5944650602/