Woodwork, garden birds
A nest box for a garden bird of the Low Countries, sawn from one plank and screwed: pick the species and the entrance, floor, height and even the shape of the box follow Vogelbescherming Nederland's table.
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Woodwork, joinery
A dovetailed drawer sized from the hole it must fill: give the opening and running clearance, the board thickness, the joint and the timber, and the Jig lays out the tails by the old rules and refuses a gap a wet season would close.
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Paper, education
The five Platonic solids from one sheet of paper: pick a solid, set its size to your sheet, drag the slider to watch the classic net fold shut, and export the pattern with glue tabs to print, cut and glue.
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Laser cutting, electronics
A laser-cut sandwich keyboard for MX-style mechanical switches: a switch plate, a bottom plate and M2 standoffs, column-staggered, split or in one piece, with room for a controller. Choose rows, columns, stagger, thumb keys and plate material.
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Laser cutting
A finger-jointed plywood box sized from what goes in it or where it must fit, with compartments tabbed through the floor and a lid held by a frame, ready to laser cut with your sheet's real thickness and your laser's kerf.
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3D printing, machining
A GT2 2 mm timing pulley from the belt you bought and the shaft you have: flanges and face width after the Gates design manual, a hub with grub screws in one choice, machined and black anodised or 3D printed in its print orientation.
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3D printing, workshop storage
A storage bin for the Gridfinity system: choose the grid size, the compartments, label tabs, scoops and base holes; it prints without supports and proves, with its fit gauges on, that it seats in a baseplate and stacks.
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3D printing, storage
A Gridfinity baseplate that fills your drawer: as many 42 mm cells as fit, centred, with filler strips to the walls, split into pieces that fit your print bed and joined by printed bowtie clips.
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3D printing, CNC
A printable cable drag chain designed from what you know: the cable bundle, the machine's travel, the height of the moving end and the smallest bend the cable allows give the link size, pitch, link count and fixed point, by igus' published rules.
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Joinery, building
A straight closed-string wooden stair for your stairwell: floor to floor, the run you have, the width and the opening. The form chooses the steps, rise and going by the step rule, keeps them within the dimensions of the rule you pick (Bbl, Flemish code or a comfort stair), and exports the housed stringers and treads for a CNC. Dimensions only: strength figures are an orientation for a structural engineer to verify.
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Machine building, mechanisms
A disc cam with a translating roller follower laid out from a motion law: give the lift, the rise, dwell and return angles and the speed, and the form refuses a cam whose pressure angle or curvature cannot work and says which base circle would.
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Woodwork, statics
The floating table: a top hanging from a hook on the base by one short rope and held level by three to six tensioned outer cables. Set the size, the cables and the load; the Jig sizes every tension and refuses a load the fittings cannot carry.
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Sheet metal, electronics
A sheet-metal electronics case sized from what goes in it: a board, a power supply or a stack of them. Laser cut and bent from two sheets, a chassis and a cover, with the bend order proven at every change of the form.
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Sheet metal, racks
A 19-inch rack cabinet sized from what goes in it: how many units, how deep the gear is and what it weighs, on a wall or on feet. Laser cut and folded from one sheet thickness, bolted together with clinch nuts, EIA-310 rails, a door on hinge pins with a quarter-turn lock.
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Origami, paper and laser cutting
A Miura-ori sheet that folds and unfolds with one slider: pick the sheet, rows, columns and angle, watch it fold, and export the crease pattern with mountains and valleys on separate layers to print, score or cut.
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Woodwork, acoustics
A cabinet for one loudspeaker driver from its data sheet: the volume from Thiele and Small's alignments, measured on the model, a flared port tuned by Helmholtz, and finger-jointed or rebated panels for the router or the saw.
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3D printing, robotics
A printable single-stage cycloidal reducer for a NEMA stepper: the true lobe profile from the pin count and eccentricity, steel pins, bearings from a table, and a slider that runs it.
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Building, laser cutting
A timber-strut geodesic dome (1V, 2V or 3V) with laser-cut steel hubs: give a radius or a floor area and get the strut schedule, the timber to buy, the hub count and the plates to send to the laser.
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Welding, laser cutting
A fixture welding table you laser cut and MIG weld yourself: 16 mm or 28 mm holes on a 50 or 100 mm grid, a perforated top on half-lapped ribs, perforated side plates, and a base of square tube. The plates meet in plain contact with one short recessed tab per pitch, so the welds lie below the datum faces and nothing stands proud. The form limits the load to what keeps the sag within the flatness limit; the mass, the weld share and the sway are measured or worked out from the model.
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Welding, machine building
A rectangular box, cube or beam of laser-cut steel plate from 3 mm up, to build machines from: short recessed tabs, a half-lapped egg-crate of ribs inside, and openings that follow each wall. Tab and slot from the laser hold it straight while it is welded.
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Metalwork, acoustics
A wind chime of tubes, or a glockenspiel of bars, cut to pitch from the free-free beam formula: pick the scale and the stock you bought, get every length and node hole, a full-size cut-and-drill sheet, and a form that corrects itself from a tuner reading of your own test piece.
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Laser cutting, art, mathematics
A sculpture of two families of laser-cut plywood slices, birch one way and walnut the other, that slide into each other with half-lap slots and show a saddle, a ripple or a ball. Every slot meets its partner half way up its crossing, fitted to your two sheets as measured and to your laser's kerf.
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Aeromodelling, laser cutting
A built-up balsa wing for a radio-controlled model from its span, chords, NACA digits, sweep, washout and flying weight: every rib cut from a lofted wing with its spar slots, leading and trailing edge stock, a ply joiner and film, and the numbers an aeromodeller wants.
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Mechanisms, laser cutting
Theo Jansen's walking linkage scaled to the hip height you ask: drag the crank and the leg walks along its drawn foot path. Laser-cut birch bars and walnut triangles on brass rod pins, one leg or a pair half a turn apart.
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Woodwork, optics
A Newtonian on a plywood rocker box, from your mirror: the secondary for the field you choose, the spider, the focuser position, the altitude bearings on the real balance point (computed from the masses, then measured on the model), the rocker box and a cut sheet for the plywood.
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Laser cutting, engraving, astronomy
A horizontal garden dial or a vertical wall dial, also for a wall that does not face south, drawn for your latitude and longitude so that it reads the clock time of your zone: a brass plate and gnomon to laser cut and engrave, on a slate slab.
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Laser cutting, engraving, astronomy
A planispheric astrolabe for a place from 25 to 65 degrees north (not the tropics, not the southern hemisphere), in brass: a mater with its degree scale, a plate of almucantars and azimuths in exact stereographic projection, a rete of lettered star pointers from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue with the ecliptic ring, a rule, and an altitude scale with an alidade on the back, to laser cut and engrave.
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Sheet metal, energy
A parabolic solar cooker from flat petals of mirror sheet: give your pot and the size of the dish, and get the petal template to cut, the steel plates to laser cut and the sunlight it brings to the pot. The dish tilts on an axle through the focus, so the pot stays level and in the light at every sun height.
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3D printing, mechanisms
A printable cylinder music box: a pinned drum for three old tunes, a comb whose teeth are tuned by the cantilever formula, cut from spring steel or printed, and a crank that plays the tune while the pins pass the comb.
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3D printing, mechanisms
A printable single-stage planetary reducer for a NEMA stepper, from the reduction and the size you ask for: true involute teeth with profile shift, a planet count that always assembles, ball bearings on steel pins, six print plates that each fit a 220 mm bed, and a slider that turns every gear by the true kinematics.
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Mechanisms, casting
A two-stage spur gear reducer in a split cast iron housing, sized from the ratio, speed, power and driven machine: involute teeth, modules by the Lewis formula, shafts and bearings from the torque, and a slider that turns every gear.
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Mechanisms, laser cutting, astronomy
A hand-cranked brass orrery, Mercury to Saturn and the Moon, each on its own gear train searched to the accuracy you ask; set the date and every bead stands where its gears put it, at its body's real mean longitude on the day the arms were set and drifting only by its train's error after. Laser-cut brass gears, stock brass tube and rod, a walnut plinth.
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Aerospace, CNC milling
A CubeSat structure and layout to the CubeSat Design Specification: the form factor, the payload, the PC/104 stack, the battery, the radio and the solar wings. Drag it from stowed in the dispenser to deployed in orbit, and the form keeps it inside the CDS envelope, mass and centre-of-gravity limits.
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