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Maze Robot

by Daniel · Published 6th February 2018 · Updated 24th July 2019

Follow the adventures of my Maze Runner robot as it makes a bid for freedom.

(This is just a quick filler post while I sort out the rest of the updated blog. Watch this space for new projects coming soon.)

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I purchased a nice selection of offcuts from @clwo

I purchased a nice selection of offcuts from @clwoodworks.I wanted to get an idea of how different types of wood reacted to the CNC, and he was kind enough to put together a sample pack for me.Included in the selection are pieces of Yew, Black Walnut, Oak, Lime, Larch, and Beech.Now I just need to figure out what to do with them all.#woodworking #woodworker #oak #yew #walnut #lime #larch #beech #liveedge #wavyedge #finewoodworking #reclaimedwood #dowoodworking

Following on from my frog story of a couple weeks

Following on from my frog story of a couple weeks ago, I've decided to make the basement window an "official" frog sanctuary, and have crafted this sign thusly.This is the first time I've done a Vcarve with raised letters, and I think it's come out really well. The vbit cuts are still a little rough, so it might be time to invest in some better quality ones.The wood is actually a sample piece of oak flooring from B&Q. At £3 for the sampler, this is far too expensive to be a reliable source of wood, but does serve as proof than I can carve into oak floorboards, should I find that of benefit.Since installing the ladder I've not seen any frogs, so I guess it's doing its job. I just need put a protective finish on this, then I'll put it up.#vcarve #vbit #cnc #sign #signmaking #signmaker #woodworking #woodworker #frog #sneakybackgroundfeet

CNC owners of Instagram, where do you buy your woo

CNC owners of Instagram, where do you buy your wood?I found this small selection of pieces I found at B&Q in Kidderminster, and am generally happy with the oak hobby boards I can get from Homebase, but I can't help but feel that there are plenty of other places that'll have something more exotic than oak and pine.The round piece here is clearly a blank designed for a lathe, but I think I can split it lengthways down the middle I could make a couple of fun signs from it.The small rectangular piece is actually a sample of solid oak flooring, which I picked up as an experement, and the other two are oak and beech.I don't have any specifric plans for these yet, although I think they'll end up as motivational signs.#cnc #woodworking #homebase #diy #bandq
#woodworker #woodcraft #doityourself

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two"
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- T.S. Eliot.⁣This is a display for my good friend Beckey, who finds inspiration in the grounding words of T. S. Eliot.⁣I'm not happy with how difficult it is to read the text, so I'm going to try a different font, and see about making it a little larger.⁣
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#quote #tseliot #motivational #sign #display #signs #woodworking #woodworker #motivationalquotes #inspirational #woodcraft #woodart

Another @monumental.me motivational display in the

Another @monumental.me motivational display in the works, this time for my good friend (and best woman at my wedding next year) Caroline.This is a Be, Do, Have display, and is designed to help you understand who you need to be, and what you need to do, to get what you want to have...... or as Zig Ziglar says: "You have to BE before you can DO and DO before you can HAVE."This has been cut from MDF as an experiment, and while it's coming out OK, I'm not 100% happy with it, mostly because some of the letters are not working as well as I'd like.I'm going to finish making this one by adding some paint, but when it's done I'm probably going to do it a second time with some better quality wood.
In any case, I figured it was worth sharing this work in progress.#motivational #inspirational #woodworking #maker #displays #sign #signs #makersgonnamake #woodworker #inspirationalquotes

It's been a bit of a roller coaster journey, but t

It's been a bit of a roller coaster journey, but the COHO display is finally with it's rightful owner. He had some very nice things to say about it:⁣"𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰".⁣
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If you want to find out more about what I'm doing with all these signs, check out @monumental.me - I'm getting ever closer to being ready to launch.⁣#woodworking #motivation #display #signs #oak #cnc #business #smallbusinesses⁣
#entrepreneur #woodworker #sign #businessman #missionstatement #companygoals

Lucy wanted a cute little table for her new home o

Lucy wanted a cute little table for her new home office, and asked if I could make one for her - to which I replied yes, but she'd have to go to the back of the queue.So instead she took to Etsy and found this piece by @bensimpsonfurniture.It arrived yesterday morning, consisting of three nicely sanded and finished scaffolding boards, a couple of metal braces, and some hairpin legs. I was somewhat expecting some pilot holes to have been pre drilled, so was surprised to find this wasn't the case. Maybe I'm spoilt by IKEA?In any case, 28 drilled holes later, and it was fully assembled and ready for use.#hairpinleg #table #desk #etsy #woodworking #scaffoldingplank #scaffoldingboard #reclaimedwood #woodwork #woodworker #homeoffice #tablesetting

Today, I'm playing with Apoxie Sculpt.After a re

Today, I'm playing with Apoxie Sculpt.After a really busy week with the day job I've managed to find some time in the workshop, so I've set about completing some of my @monumental.me orders.Following the disaster that was the COHO sign a couple weeks ago, I've decided that resin probably isn't the way to go with these displays (not without some changes to the way I approach it), so instead, based on my success with Milliput, I'm trying another epoxy clay, Apoxie Sculpt.#milliput #apoxiesculpt #cnc #woodworking #maker

Time to lose the covid podge, and get back on the

Time to lose the covid podge, and get back on the exercise train - so here's my first run since March 2016.I got into running previously in 2015. I started with the Couch to 5k program, which gradually eases you into running over a period of 9 weeks by alternating between long periods of walking, and short periods of running, then gradually increasing the amount of running while decreasing the amount of walking, untill you're comfortably running nonstop.I spent most of that year running around 3 times a week, doing a minimum of 5k along the canals in Birmingham, and occasionally even a 10k.In December in that year I thought I'd try a challenge of running every day of the month, and although I didn't manage every day, I think I did at least 24 day - and frankly is kind of broke me. I decided to take a break from it for a bit, and other than the occasional jog, I didn't manage to pick it up again.Fast forward to today, and with a wedding nine months away, I figured I'd give it another try. I'm starting fresh with couth to 5k, as I highly doubt I can just fall back into the runs I was doing before, although I don't think it'll be too long before catch up with myself.#exercise #running #jogging #fitness #couchto5k

My latest comission, a display for @lucy_saurus, f

My latest comission, a display for @lucy_saurus, fresh off the CNC.The design was purchased as an SVG from SVGmamaDesignCo on Etsy.This, along with the COHO display, needs a layer of shellac to seal it, then it'll be filled in with Apoxie Sculpt, and finished with a stain - both of which sound like jobs for tomorrow 😎#cindarella #cnc #havecourageandbekind #havecourage #bekind #woodworking #maker #svg

We interrupt your regularly scheduled post to brin

We interrupt your regularly scheduled post to bring you Frogger!First, some context. Late last year we had our basement converted into an office. This (among many other things) involved digging out a window, which I've affectionately named the fishtank (because I could see it filling up with water).Anyway, we used to have a plant in the fishtank, but decided to remove it when we found it wasn't doing very well (mostly because I forgot to water it), so imagine my surprise to find two frogs living within the foliage when I got it into the garden. I had inadvertently allowed them to escape the fishtank, something which I'm almost certain they'd not have been able to do by themselves.Fast forward a few weeks, during the hot period we've had recently, and again, imagine my surprise to find a frog hopping around in my office. The heat had caused me to open the window, which the ninja frog must have taken as an invitation. I once again liberated the frog to the garden and carried on with my day.But no, dear readers, we're not even close to the end of my encounters with frogs in the basement, as my story continues with encounter three, which happened yesterday, during with a record six different frogs had found themselves in the fishtank. It took me a good 20 minutes to catch them all, again releasing them in the garden.Encounter four was this morning, when a further two frogs found themselves trapped, and I realised I wasn't going to be able to keep rescuing them, and that they'll have to start doing it themselves...Which lead to the creation of the frog ladder, made out of two scrap bits of wood (they used to be garden partitions/edging).The frogs have taken kindly to the ladder, having found them sat on it various times, although I'm not sure they've figured out they can use it to escape... Or maybe they're quite happy just chilling in the fishtank.If this proves to be successful I'll look at putting in something more permanent, and less of an eye sore, but for now, hopefully this will help.#frog #frogs #maker #reclaimedwood #escape

That could have gone better 😬I started to san

That could have gone better 😬I started to sand the epoxy on the COHO display (which had pooled a bit at the bottom of the display, but thankfully resisted dripping over the edge), and very quickly got bored.The resin was at least 2mm thick (maybe 3mm), and it would have taken hours to sand even with a course grit. I could have given it a go with my belt sander (and maybe should have), but I decided that I'd try using a surfacing bit on the CNC.I should have programmed a toolpath to do it all in one go, but I was lazy, so decided to control the movement of the router directly using the jog controls. This itself doesn't seem to be too much of a problem - the problem was the board obviously wasn't parallel with the router, which meant it cut far deeper on one side than the other - and unfortunately, too deep for carved letters.So this means I'm back at square one. I'm a little disappointed, but I'm not too upset, as I think I've learnt a few things during this process, and have some ideas on how I can do it better next time.For this display in particular, I'm probably going to skip the resin and fill the letters using the Apoxy Sculpt (as an alternative to the milliput) I've just received - it was a little time consuming applying, but was far quicker to sand off.And the next time I try resin, I'll see if using a syringe would help me control how much and where it goes.Anyway, I'm going to console myself with a can of Hobgoblin, and some Zelda.#epoxyresin #resin #oops #whoops #woops #woodworking #maker #makefailrepeat

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