This is a three player chessboard.
I saw a picture of a similar (much more professional) board on the interwebs and wanted one so i started my Qcad..

As wizard23s birthday was around this was the perfect gift.

In the fine picture attached you see from left to right:
- me
- clifford
- wizard23

This item replaces the hexagonal tiles in Settlers of Catan with tiles that interlock. It will produce the 19 hexagonal tiles that comprise the basic set, as well as a bunch of tokens to represent the ports.

These are drop in replacement tiles for the famous scrabble game by Parker Brothers. What these tiles provide is a hexadecimal set of characters, with point values corresponding to their numeric values. This should provide for truly universal language support in scrabble. Any player can feel free to deploy their words now as they would in any other version of scrabble, only now they have their choice of encoding types. Including full unicode support!

Do you like to play dominoes but do not have a set of tiles or bones to play with? Then you need this file. Make your own dominoes out of acrylic or wood with this file.

I plan to make lots of these for friends and family in different colors out of different materials. I will use 3/8 inch or 1 cm think material to cut out the tiles. I then will paint the dots with a contrasting color.

My first project was made with a 12 inch by 12 inch (30.4 cm by 30.4 cm) piece of 1 cm think hobby plywood obtained from a big box store of national recognition. The dots were burned into the wood through the rastering or engraving step so no painting was required.

I set the file up so that you could etch, burn, or engrave a logo on the backside and then flip the panel over before making the dominoes. It should register perfectly, but this has not bee attempted yet.

Good luck with your project and let me know how it goes.

Todd

For Mothers day I made my mom a set of earings that double as a working planetary gear.

...sorry for the pun in the name.

I made this chess set for my Grandfather's 90th birthday. I laser it cut it out of 3mm birch plywood and stained the dark pieces. The board is alternating etched & bare squares.

Now that I'm back from the trip, I'm getting around to posting the designs up.

I hope to make another set, maybe with etched or a scored pattern for the dark pieces, rather than having to stain them and wait for all that boring drying.

I designed it in SketchUp. First I snagged some standard looking models for chess pieces from the warehouse. Then I scaled the king to a height of 85mm and scaled the rest to match (pretty closely) the same base size as the king. I drew two 90-degree planes through each one and made them components. Then I intersected one face of the plane with the rest of the model and got the lines I wanted. I pulled out that new face to 1/2 the width of the ply and did the same to the other side. Intersecting the two parts got me the lines for the notches.

A good bit of twiddling later, I used the SVG from SketchUp faces plugin to export one face of each of the parts. I've noticed the newer version gives much smoother paths, I think there are some gaps in the current version of the files I'm uploading.

Note: I've updated the svg files using the newer version of the SVG plugin, which does a single path. It cuts much cleaner. I have not, however, updated the EPS with all the pieces laid out on a single board. I'm leaving it here, just in case someone wants it.

I had a little extra space on some 1/8th inch plywood I cutting for another project, and decided to cut a copy of Travis77's puzzle [ thingiverse.com/thing:1008 ]

Scaled down for 1/8th inch material thickness, it was just too thin, so I decided to double it up, and added some #4 screw holes to hold it together while I glued the material.

In this file you can see 8 coasters with holder. There are engraves of the employees from ProtoSpace on every coaster. You can change this by yourself of course!

This is a puzzle box that you can cut on a laser cutter and assemble with no additional parts.

The panels on the cube faces move, and if you move them in the correct sequence, you will open the box!

This is an adaption of Bruce Viney's "Cubey 2" for the laser cutter. His original plans (requiring traditional woodworking tools) are here: homepage.ntlworld.com/bruce.viney/plans.html

Three rotating concentric rings.

The Geneva Wheel is a simple mechanic base unit for converting a continuous rotation motion into an intermittent rotary motion. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_wheel Its used in clocks and similar mechanics.

designed with E12/24 etc series of resistors in mind (12x2 layout)

flap yet missing, need to figure out a nice way to make the hinge strong and small enough.

can be easily modified by removing seperators/holes for these.

Like a spice rack, really, but in the shape of the periodic table so you can use it to store and display your chemical elements collection.

This is a plan for a pinhole camera that is made from layers of plywood (or anything layerable, really ;). It has a round image plane, the idea is to get a broad field of view.

It's not yet tested, so I don't have any idea what kind of pictures will come out of it, but I'm building two right now.

update: Attached a picture made with the cam. It works. :)

A small stand suitable useful for things like watching movies on the iPad. Made of three pieces of 1/4" (6mm) acrylic. The pieces friction-fit together and the stand can be quickly broken down and set up, so it's easy to toss in a bag.

The spacing of the stand legs is narrow enough to not get in the way of the dock connector, or the power button or volume buttons if the iPad is put in the stand upside down.

Feel free to add your own engraved logos or images to the side legs!

This is a simple design for a parametric lasercut desktop filing rack in OpenSCAD.

A fix for the Stackable box to correct one of the edge connector lengths.

This has been fixed in the original ( thanks Martijn ).

Please Refer to original -> thingiverse.com/thing:3158

This was inspired by a TED video by Tom Wujec. See it here: ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tom_wujec_demos_the_13th_century_astrolabe.html I spent some time drawing this in Corel and used a variety of sources for copying the lines. The electric astrolabe from here; astrolabes.org/electric.htm was an excellent source and star fields can be printed for any location. Thanks to James Morrison for that. Another good source is from Daniel Rislove here: uwsp.edu/physastr/rislove/astrolabe/resource.htm You can print a paper version to test it. You can download a program for creating sundials and astrolabes ( they cost ) here: pagesperso-orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/shadowspro/
Since I currently live in Peru I was interested in creating an Astrolabe for Southern hemispheres, they work in reverse so I needed to create a different outer ring and rete. I have included parts for both hemispheres. The instrument is probably not very accurate as I used images as a starting point then drew over them using the line tool. It was easy to create the outer ring division in Corel accurately but the hemisphere lines in the centre were more difficult. If anyone knows a way of doing these mathematically for any longitude please let me know. Next step is to have a go at making this with a bronze plate using our Roland EGX 350.

14.5" x 14.5" Chess Board with a compass rose inlayed in the center.

Designed to be made from 4 different hardwoods (see concept pic).

The brightly colored sample pic was scaled down and cut out of 4 different colors of hardcard, and then glued together onto a piece of foamcore.

This is a chess set that I designed for my dad for his birthday this year.

My dad taught me how to make, create, design, build, program, and solder from a young age. This year I finally remembered that parents don't like their children to buy them expensive things, they like their children to build them things. And you could end up making the worst looking thing ever, but they'll love it, just because you made it.

Happy birthday dad.

I like the look of Make magazine (http://makezine.com/) on my bookshelves but I wanted something to store them in that was similar to the holders I use for other magazines. Make's (and Craft's) unique form factor require a custom solution.

The images show the Make Magazine logo and cover art for each year. I'm assuming that I can't include the cover images in the files here but I downloaded them from Make's own website if you want to make them exactly like mine (http://makezine.com/covers/)

Each file is designed for a loose fit for gluing and has been sized to contain four issues (one year).

A calling card with working planetary gears. Astound your friends, frustrate your nemisii.

(Update: I've moved the gears slightly to the right, reducing the number of cut parts to assemble.)

This is an update of the Old School Space Rocket, based on comments from Bre after he cut and build the first physical copy.

Change log:
1. Made the spines that run the length of the hull twice as thick, for structural support and for aesthetics.
2. Re-made the ribs that define the cross-section of the hull from scratch with circular voids and fine-tuned dimensions for aesthetics and better fit.
3. Hollowed out the legs for aesthetics.
4. Re-made the feet using the same spine & rib method as the hull, for consistency, for the challenge, for aesthetics, and for the win!
5. Re-arranged the pieces on the cutting pattern so that you could cut from two rectangles instead of a single square.

Felt like the Old School Space Rocket needed a stand to show it off to best effect... and I needed something to play around with automatic tab generation in sketchup.

Here's the result, dressed up to look like a cartoon exhaust cloud.