Marble Run 4

A new curvy track piece for the marble run ( svg here )

Five Years of Letters

Can you believe it? I can't believe it, even if you can. Five years of this blog. Five years of advice and working through my thoughts a...

Marble Run 3

Apparently having the marbles spew across the table wasn't that helpful either, those previous slopes are still fun for making the marbl...

Marble Run 2

The kids were quick to point out that the marbles weren't leaving the run so they couldn't get them back, also the number of paths w...

Marble Run

I copied the classic kids toy  to make some of my own marble run pieces. It's a simple design which goes together with a little glue, it...

Material Storage Shelving

I made the most of a sunny day to pull everything out of my garage and restack it into a sensible order. I bought some shelving a few months...

Latching Box

This box from thingiverse user Noloxs  features a latching lid and angled hinge arrangement to hold the lid open at an angle. I scaled it to...

Interview Post: Tim Hensley

Biographical Name? Tim Hensley Current job? Director of Collections at the Virginia Holocaust Museum . How long have you been in the field? ...

SD Card Holder

This little container for SD cards has a sliding lid with latching detents to hold it in place. It's a nice little idea and I had seen ...

U-Box

I was looking for inspiration when I stumbled across this U-Box  from Stanford Graduate School of Education. It's an interesting project...

The Case for Theoretical Eclecticism

source I'm disgustingly well-rounded and balanced in my talents and in my interests. Back when the SATs were comprised of two tests, ver...

Working Dice Tower (with plans)

The final challenge for the dice tower was to make the baffles stay in the tower when picked up and to make them extend into the new catchme...

Collapsing Tower

More excessive use of pin hinges allowed me to create a collapsible tower. The previous designs spewed dice all over the table which was a b...

Group Symbols

I was asked to make a stencil for a group called the Wardens in the Lorien Trust , I pointed out that the design had lots of islands and wou...

Massive DM Screen

After posting my dice tower prototype to my geeky gaming friends on Facebook I was asked to make a DM screen. The idea fit well into the exi...

Baffling Improvements (Dice Tower 2)

I knew I could get the baffling to be a lot flatter, in theory the thinnest it could be is the same as the material thickness. I replaced th...

Dice Tower 1

Way back in July I was trying to make a dice tower, there are a lot of laser cut dice towers available online and they all suffer from issue...