We made our own nerdy clock.
We took a big clock and covered the backplane with modeling grass.
It took about 5 containers to fill the backplane enough to get it nicely filled.
The lettering near the pictures are the RGB representation of the color used in our office.
Lets see if you can decode them all. (use password clock to view solutions!)
I got bored and attacked my work laptop with a belt sander!
After getting rid of the embedded logo, i took a can of black chalkpaint.
We wanted to have a nice design for our Folk Bands Audio CD.
So i designed a stamp we could use to stamp ink on a white CD.
Made a leather carrying case for 4 beer bottles.
Made a design and cut the leather accordingly.
Used metal rivets to connect all leather parts.
Using a lasercutter i’ve been making some wooden ornaments.
We send these as Xmas cards, so people can hang these in their tree afterwards.
We also used these for Advent Calendar decorations.
You can find the lasercut models attached
https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/2015KERST.cdr
I like making stuff from scaffolding material.
Now a new cocktail/whisky cabinet.
Another example of something I build last year
Cut some different pieces of wood and paint these.
Cut the text in lines, and divide the lines over the surface.
Put a little nail over the outlines of the letters, and use some wool to connect all nails.
I designed playing pieces for a DIY made Shogi board.
Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, Xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general’s (shō 将) board game (gi 棋). Western chess is sometimes called (Seiyō Shōgi 西洋将棋 lit. ’Western Shogi’) in Japan.
Shogi was the earliest chess-related historical game to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player. This drop rule is speculated to have been invented in the 15th century and possibly connected to the practice of 15th century mercenaries switching loyalties when captured instead of being killed.
Pieces Lasercut and Laser-engraved
Final board
I’ve designed the pieces and the markings on them using Inkscape.
Instead of the Japanese characters the pieces show the allowed movements. The Circled signs are on the back of the pieces.
Board and traditional characterset
After a long pause … doing martial arts again.
I’ve studied several sports in the past, like Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Ninjitsu.
And tried a lot of other ones .. now Iaido
( Kungfu , Bojitsu, Nunchaku-do and Hojōjutsu )
Found more
While we were in Zweden for several months (2011). Coline for work, and i tagged along. ( Working using VPN )
We saw a wooden xmas thingy, Coline liked it very much.
I made it myself because it was not a ‘thing’ yet in the Netherlands. Now you can buy these everywhere.
