A friend’s picture of his family’s fire pit with their surname cut out of the fire ring prompted this project. I found an SVG of the inscription of the One Ring in the Lord of the Rings series, based on Tolkien’s depiction in The Fellowship of the Ring (
This scooter was built on the small budget of a grad student with a family. The total cost was under $300, over an order of magnitude cheaper than the real Segway. Update – 25 Sep 2013 I did some work over the last year for a power-tool company who contacted … Continue Reading ››
When we first got the laser I promised my three-year-old that I’d cut him out a bed with it. It took about a year for me to finally get it designed in Solidworks and cut out. It all fit on a single 5’x5′ sheet of 1/2″ Baltic birch, even after cutting down … Continue Reading … Continue reading Laser-cut toddler bed
A laser-engraved jack-o-lantern for Halloween 2013. I used the rotary stage to do the sides, and then sliced off the stem and did the top. Aligning the top with the sides was a bit tricky, but it came out okay. I left off Antartica. Slideshow (album):
Some friends were having a housewarming party so I modified a design I found and cut it out of a 12″x12″ sheet of 1/4″ bamboo plywood. I used some steel wire to align the layers for gluing, tied each joint with waxed floss while the glue dried, and finished it with a beeswax and … … Continue reading Laser-cut fruit bowl
We have some family friends who have an annual Pi Day pie party. I was planning to make a pumpkin pie to laser this year, but the week ended up being too busy. Instead, my office mate Charlie and I tromped down to the supermarket and picked out the flattest pies they had, … Continue … Continue reading Laser pi(e)
I like to make Thai food. Here’s a menu my wife made of the dishes in my répertoire. (Thanks, Michelle!) Invite yourself over for dinner sometime.
I designed and made two titanium pens for Christmas gifts in 2008. The bodies consist of three components I manually turned from titanium rod: the lower tube, upper tube, and finial. The finial screws into the upper tube to hold the clip, and the lower tube screws into the upper tube to hold the cartridge. … Continue reading Titanium pens
