The Make Something Every Week Contest

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by Qingdai

"WTF do I do with three pounds of cherry tomatoes?"

A catapult would be even better.

[Qingdai]

Cherry tomatoes, really tiny catapult. Do you think Legos™ would be the way to go?

[Flying Monkey]

"the monkey?!" Pfft!

They are even double sided. =)

I made the dryer spin round and round with the touch of a button, does that count?

Originally Posted by Crumb

Made these over the weekend with some help from the monkey.

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They are Decktet tokens. 20 of each of the six Decktet suits.

For more info: The Decktet

[thedoc]

Originally Posted by Flying Monkey

I made the dryer spin round and round with the touch of a button, does that count?

I think that's really great, but I think you should rest a bit before you attempt any other major accomplishments.

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by Qingdai

Cherry tomatoes, really tiny catapult. Do you think Legos™ would be the way to go?

Nah, just pile all of them in the cup and let fly. Like grapeshot but with tomatoes.

[ceptimus]

This week, I've designed and built a radio controlled model plane out of correx or corroplast or corroflute or whatever the damn stuff is called in your country - it's that twin-wall fluted plastic sheet that house 'for sale' signs and other advertising boards are often made from.

I shall see if it flies tomorrow. I'll try to snap a few pics of it first, in case this is also its last outing.

It looks like crap anyhow, and is rather too heavy, so I'm not expecting great things - now I know why toy planes are usually made out of balsa wood and carbon fibre and stuff, rather than this horrible plastic material.

[ceptimus]

Well, it flew much better than I expected. It is even capable of prolonged knife-edge flight (this is where the plane does a quarter-roll, so that the wings are vertical, and then flies around using the fuselage side area as a kind of primitive wing to hold the plane up).

It has a peculiar trait where at very high speed, in a full-power dive, the ailerons start to work in the opposite direction so that commanding the plane to roll left actually makes it roll right. The first couple of times this happened, I thought it was due to radio interference or similar. However, it was so repeatable that it can't be that - I think the correx must be flexing under high load so that the wing twists the opposite direction to the ailerons and overrides their effect - quite a fun feature, once you get used to it!

Here is a photo of the model prior to its first flight. I did warn you that it looks like crap!

[Crumb]

I created a prototype for a game of rover exploration of Io (a moon of Jupiter). It is a tile laying/modular board/area control game. It has some potential.

[Qingdai]

Cep! You're much younger than I pictured.

Yesterday I got together with some kids and made fake cardboard trees and bushes and painted them. I'll post a picture after we put them up.

[Gonzo]

It would be sort of badass if ceptimus was really a boy genius plotting to take over the world with remote controlled toy airplanes.

[SR71]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

Well, it flew much better than I expected. It is even capable of prolonged knife-edge flight (this is where the plane does a quarter-roll, so that the wings are vertical, and then flies around using the fuselage side area as a kind of primitive wing to hold the plane up).

It has a peculiar trait where at very high speed, in a full-power dive, the ailerons start to work in the opposite direction so that commanding the plane to roll left actually makes it roll right. The first couple of times this happened, I thought it was due to radio interference or similar. However, it was so repeatable that it can't be that - I think the correx must be flexing under high load so that the wing twists the opposite direction to the ailerons and overrides their effect - quite a fun feature, once you get used to it!

Here is a photo of the model prior to its first flight. I did warn you that it looks like crap!

Groovy man, a fellow toy airplaner! May your fleet be fruitful and multiply.

[Qingdai]

Our cardboard shark attack in the bio-swale.



Also beware of lurking pedo- I mean polar bears.

Plus sad cartoonish bushes predominate the local landscape.

[Ymir's blood]

You should do a Pedobear cutout and put it behind the fake bushes.

[SR71]

Me and the girl run this flea market stall on the weekends. I made all the stuff that isn't a tent or merchandise. She makes some of the merchandise. We bring mad hats and cheap jewelry to the market for less than WalMart, and still pay all the taxes, plus keep a fair part for ourselves. Last week I made a new display rack for animal face hats.

[Crumb]

I set up a yucata.de development environment on my computer. Does that count?

[Corona688]

My inner two-year-old demanded a giant trilobite with a thagomizer.

It's not a trilobite anymore, more of a mussel-turtle-slug, but I am satisfied with the result.

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Made with Blender.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Corona688

It's not a trilobite anymore, more of a mussel-turtle-slug

Um ... it's more of a kiwi.

[Gonzo]

More ing news about me: I spent the whole day drawing concept stuff for another comic book which a friend of my bro has written (with a co-author) and asked us both to do all the art. He is really enthusiastic about it and a well educated and talented writer. I am psyched about the script so far.

[JoeP]

Post samples! If it's not super-sekrit.

[Gonzo]

I might later when I'm further along. Just designing characters right now... have to get his approval on them and see which we are using. His first task given to me was to design the leading female characters without any cliché within the set bounds of his descriptions. There is male/female protagonist and male/female antagonist so while the evil lady is described as 'stunningly beautiful' I had to find a way to make her look unconventional. I feel like I succeeded for the most part, though I might redesign her clothing. She is a little too burlesque, but she isn't really human just some hellish entity out to deceive. The protagonist had to look like a real woman does, none of that anorexic or half naked combat clothing stuff and she's a p. badass duel pistol wielder out for vengeance for the murder of her family. Def. my favorite character so far.

[Chris Porter]

I haven't had time to make a desk, and I decided I really wanted a standing desk. But adjustable. But not expensive. So I've been putting it off and putting it off, because the cost of an adjustable desk is prohibitive.

Then I saw

this video

on youtube, and got this idea:



An adjustable desk designed to work on french cleats.

Will be specing out the real details and purchasing materials after I put new brake pads on the truck.

[JoeP]

Cool! Would you have to take everything off the desk to adjust it? - Because there's no mechanism to keep it level while adjusting?

[Chris Porter]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Cool! Would you have to take everything off the desk to adjust it? - Because there's no mechanism to keep it level while adjusting?

Yes, I think so, except the stuff in the cubbies of the desk and boxes. But it's only 4 feet wide, so it won't be that heavy to lift. Also, I normally keep a very spare desk to begin with. The monitors would be shifted first, if in sitting mode, then the desk brought up to them at the standing mode. The opposite for shifting the desk back down to sitting mode.

Because I don't keep much on my desk to begin with, monitors, speakers, external hard drive, phone, keyboard and mouse, I really don't need a full 6 foot long table. I do need room for working with my digitizing tablet, and occasion flocks of paper, but that is not something I keep on my desk at all times.

[thedoc]

Originally Posted by Chris Porter

Yes, I think so, except the stuff in the cubbies of the desk and boxes. But it's only 4 feet wide, so it won't be that heavy to lift. Also, I normally keep a very spare desk to begin with. The monitors would be shifted first, if in sitting mode, then the desk brought up to them at the standing mode. The opposite for shifting the desk back down to sitting mode.

Because I don't keep much on my desk to begin with, monitors, speakers, external hard drive, phone, keyboard and mouse, I really don't need a full 6 foot long table. I do need room for working with my digitizing tablet, and occasion flocks of paper, but that is not something I keep on my desk at all times.

I think you should go hi-tech (sort of a Tim Allen aproach) and install either hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders to raise and lower the components. Also could you detail what you mean by 'French Cleats' I'm probably just not up to the current terminology, but I have an idea what you might mean. I've done more carpentry than cabnet work, and more model-building than either, but lately chasing the grandkids precludes any thing else.

[Janet]

Originally Posted by SR71

Me and the girl run this flea market stall on the weekends. I made all the stuff that isn't a tent or merchandise. She makes some of the merchandise. We bring mad hats and cheap jewelry to the market for less than WalMart, and still pay all the taxes, plus keep a fair part for ourselves. Last week I made a new display rack for animal face hats.

Do you have penguin hats? And is the lining really soft? My best friend said that's what I should get her daughter for her birthday.