I drew this globe in Corel Draw , the globe have 250mm diameter and consists of seven rings and twenty four stringers to fitting. I did the drawing to be cut in 4mm material. Remember, if you think about increase or decrease the drawing so you must use a material as thick as the rabbet is.
The result is a solid structure, it don´t need be glued.

Tube link : youtube.com/watch?v=zzGxyOua6mQ

Put your model rockets on display!

I've always been a last minute Christmas shopper and it has usually worked out. This year I had a request to get a Connect Four game, but I couldn't find it in stock anywhere. So I decided to make my own version of it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_four

After working like one of Santa's Elfs for a few hours (minus the green tights) I had beautiful Connect Four style game.

flickr.com/photos/spikenzie/sets/72157623097248216/

Features include:
* Arduino controlled so it can blink in different speeds, colorfade, etc. AND you can reprogram it to make whatever you want.
* Three pots to set the red, green and blue LEDs.
* reprap printed knobs for the pots
* Osram RGB LED (almost perfect point light source) with 30mA per color.
* exchangable stencil
* one rotating axis to project onto a wall or the ceiling.

more pictures: flickr.com/photos/wizard23/

I always liked Escher's irregular tessellations but when I saw this picture with my new lazzzor eyes I thought WOW this is perfect it leaves no waste material :)

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.

A Chair with a bit of a back story.

In the interest of putting off our real work around oomlout we set ourselves a simple challenge, make a chair. What ensued a day (well we're a bit disappointed as it took closer to half a day but we digress) where we went from figuring out what size a chair should be through computer drawings, cnc cutting and finally assembly.

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If you'd like all the details they can be found on our blog:
oomlout.com/blog/

This 43" tall, 46" square dining table assembles with no hardware or glue. It is incredibly sturdy.

The table is square because it promotes better community with no one placed at the head of the table and everyone equidistant, allowing for better conversation.

The table takes 2 4"X8" sheets of 18mm plywood. Most cabinet grade plywood from Home Depot is 18mm and inexpensive. The one in my home is made from high grade birch ply.

Please check out jeffreymatthias.com to see some of my other work.

Someday, I will alter the design to allow for an expanding top to accommodate 8 people.

I've added a photo of it in our home for an idea of how big it is.

12 5-sided polygons that fit together to form a dodecahedron. This is probably the smallest buckyball that you could realistically make. There a solid version, and a "wired version", which is way way easier to put together. This is to mess with you geometry-lovers out there.