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Cool Car And True Prismatic Routed Letters
THD, Inc, of Winona, MN made this sign for the Dahl Automotive Museum in LaCrosse, WI. The letters are all made out of Precision Board Plus and were drawn by Tim Russell, who designed them to be truly prismatic (The center height of the letters remains static but the...
How Fast Can A Human Powered Vehicle Go?
How do you design a champion Human Powered Vehicle? Jonathan Sanders, Fairing Engineer of the University of Missouri Human Powered Vehicle Team gave me the details of this years competition winning build. Background of the HPVC challenge: Designed to provide an...
Assembly of the Mighty Moose Ice Cream sign
The Mighty Moose Ice Cream sign needed to be assembled.
Knock, knock
A short while back we designed and cut the mock window shapes. Today we assembled the fist window buck thick combined four windows and one door into one large piece.
48″ Convair 240 – Wing Lofting
Pecking away at the Convair 240 radio control model. This is being done for a contest on the Ezone forums , and so I really need to get moving on this thing to get it in the air by June 30th contest end date. The wings are getting there – mostly lofted, just have to add the rear spars and ailerons. Having designed more than my fair share of RC planes in 2D using AutoCAD, boy, is this a better way to work! The wings are going to be my favorite style – 1/32″ balsa d-tube leading edges with shear webs. Super strong, super light, and very “stick and tissue.” I’m going to try to get the tailfeathers and fuselage formers knocked out this weekend. Haven’t quite decided if I want to do the nacelles out of balsa or vac formed styrene, but I’ll have to make a call on that pretty soon.
Horse head routed
Things were a little crazy in the shop while so much was going on but through it all the MultiCam was busy churning out creative work. I sliced the horse’s head in EnRoute, then tool patched it and sent it off to the MultiCam. It was routed in four layers of 1.5″ 30 lb Precision Board
The Anatomy of a Formula SAE Race Car
The University of Maryland Terps Racing team recently unveiled their brand-new 2012 Formula SAE car. They are looking forward to an upcoming first race, which will be held in Ontario, Canada on May 24th, and is known as Formula North. Over 70 school teams out of 1200...
Mighty Moose sign
The Mighty Moose sign is to be a double sided sign. The owner asked that it be old weathered wood, which suits the theme perfectly. First up we created the lettering
Moose structure
The Mighty Moose Ice Cream sign is coming along nicely.