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This Thanksgiving I was determined to smoke my turkey. I looked at several options for turkey smokers, but I thought I could do better. I picked up a PID controller and a few hotplates online and got to work. I built the box out of pine, making sure to
Happy No Shave November
My first try at drag. I was playing the “Ice Queen” at a murder mystery dinner. The dress is a bit dated, but your options are limited when you are 6'3"
Death costume demo
Happy Halloween! This is my costume for this year. It features my AH! (Augmented Head) device which makes the skull on top follow the motions of my own head, two feet up. Much much more on this soon
EYES, SCULPEY EYES! I needed a break, so I made eyes. I wanted to try making the iris instead of just painting it. Sculpey base, acrylic color, and a clear casting epoxy for the covering
I was at a conference with a lot of down time, so I made daily caricatures of the organizers on the communal whiteboard. Some were quicker than others.
Today I had a Stone beer, poured by a robot, and enjoyed it with my favorite robot actor Brent Spiner (Commander Data from The Next Generation). Today was a good day.
San Diego Comic Con is pretty great, and very tiring.
My take on the King of the Forest, Totoro, just in time for San Diego Comic Con!
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY QUADRACORN!! Stay tuned for more updates! I have a special surprise for Whiteboard Ponies planned later this week. Also follow me through my next whiteboard based adventure, Gravity Falls.
I hate to rehash my old projects, but I had to take some better photos than these. This was an old project from high school. I swear, one day I will make a strap for these. Made form brass, stainless steel, vinyl leather, and notch filter glass.
Creepy Rarity was inspired, in part, by Carl from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” To complement the poor posture, body hair, and tank top, I needed a gaudy faux gold chain with some cartoonish, asymmetrical bling. Making the bling for Rarity was
Damn it spike, I am going to get blamed for this. Only one more pony to go!
He kind of looks like an adult snips no?
Discord is best lamp.
How can a creature of pure indifference and a creature of pure manipulation exist together as the same being?
It stimulates the growth sir. True sir true!
A makeup test for my Creepy Rarity costume. This was my first time using a bald cap, both wearing and applying. There are a bunch of mistakes that I will be sure to avoid next time, and I learned a valuable lesson about liquid latex and facial hair. I
A friend and I had a cosplay contest to celebrate getting tickets to Comic-Con. We did Rarity, and to make it fair, we both started with the same wig. As you can see, we took it in very different directions. (Also, having such bad posture in really hard)
Scream
I can’t make Maude’s grey, but Tank was in this episode too. Sorry for the delay. I was at a convention, which I will make a post about later.
Kids are silly.
This would be a weird duet. I have to say that the Breezies are the most precarious species ever. All the ones that were left behind would have just died.
I have been messing with castings recently and came to the conclusion that I need to make a vacuum chamber to remove bubbles from the castings. I already have access to several vacuum chambers, but they either don’t pull a hard enough vacuum, or
Popularity. Even Scootaloo isn’t above grabbing a selfie with the capitan of the Wonderbolts. I have a lot of whiteboard markers now.
Best episode.
Boyz Crazy. Since there was not much from this episode that did not involve the mane six, I worked on perspective. Like always, everything is done in whiteboard markers.
Am I a pretty pony? So, I made this shirt for a member of our Bronycon group as punishment for not making/wearing a costume. To prove that I would not find it humiliating, I wore it all day, even though it is several sizes too small for me. I ripped the
This is a home made slide trumpet, measuring about 2 ft long when contracted. It was meant to be tuned to B flat, but it wound up being tuned to C. I made this in high school as a side project, so the construction is sturdy, but unsightly. That said,
Weird Al as a pony? Damn right it was a good episode.
So I made a mistake with my katakana and I was corrected by my Japanese fluent friends. This is the correct version.
Rounding out the Mane Six is the cutest, most reliable, all around best background pony, Applejack! All ponies are done in whiteboard markers.
Now I have a DeviantArt page
Testing! I need to have some base performance metrics to base the next phase of my design with, and something to test my control algorithms on, so I built this useless looking wooden box. I also wrote some control software in Matlab to remove non-linearit
I realize now that I am missing the most loyal, strongest, and all around best background pony from the mane six. Hopefully there will be another AppleJack episdoe soon… Also, Spitfire has a fantastic design.
When you play a Dungeons and Dragons game set in the My Little Pony Universe, you need a pony miniature. This is Wiely Mane; he is an immature, borderline psychopathic unicorn, obsessed with comics (especially batman). He was built using Super Sculpey,
Animatronic ears update! After messing with the original animation rack for the Secret Ear Project, I ran across some very irritating design flaws. It was extreamly compact, but certain aspects of it’s design made it nearly impossible to assemble,
Pinkie Pie episodes are always great. Also, pink is a really hard color to get on a whiteboard.
Rarity is the most fabulous of ponies. Chalk markers are kind of like cheating but eh… Rarity did not look good as an outline.
I was re-waterproofing my jacket when I get an idea. I grabbed some fur swatches I had laying around, applied the two different hydrophobic coatings that I was using, and tested the results. I did have to part the fur and brush the coatings in with an
NanananananananaNananananananana Flutterbat!
Merry Christmas everyone! Here is a little insight into how I make these drawings. I used a few reference images, but a lot of this was from memory, so don’t get on my case if this is off-model. I am going to start experimenting with new markers
Happy Hearth’s Warming Eve everybody! (merry Chryssi-mas too)
Since I have not updated the Secret Ear project in a while, I decided to dump my current thoughts and sketches on here for your entertainment. I have not had a chance to work on the Secret Ear project in a while thanks to finals, however it has not left
My favorite superhero today. The ever-faithful Humdrum, master of buckets.
Finals week means procrastination, procrastination means more ponies. I upgraded twilight to my current life style and made he pose more appropriate.
Here is a copper lily I made nearly a year ago. It has about a pound of pure copper in it, and was welded (yes welded, not soldered or brazed) together using copper filler. I made this as a Christmas present for my ex last year and was about to delete
The new episode was great, especially since I am a big fan of Scootaloo. The edition to the Pony Whiteboard this week is Mrs Harshwhinny giving the kids a lecture as an expert in her field. Twilight is starting to look like crap, I think I will have to
This started with Twilight giving the office a friendly reminder. Then the Twicane arrived and now Rainbow Dash’s face. I have started the MLP Season Four Meme Board. Every time there is a new meme from a new episode of My Little Pony, I will add
Here is the wax melting off of my Turner’s Cube. I normally don’t get many good videos from machining, but this one turned out well. Watch it in HD!
I had a free day, so I made a Turner’s cube. It is a cube with three nested, free floating objects inside of it. It is machined from a single piece of brass, and the nested components can not come out. It is a common part for machinists to make
This is how the ear poses are made. It has taken a lot of attempts to get the seams correct, but each one is important. In the puppeted version, this will be made from two materials; the twill nylon for the upper part, and a fabric akin to spandex.to
I needed to find a low cost, and easier to machine, single tube version of the Teflon guide tube holders I made. An alternative is splitting 5-40 brass nuts and soldering them onto the guide rails. Since Teflon is a highly interlaced polymer, it does
The ear patterns are based off of the same base structure, only varying two lengths on the ear and the rotation of the pose. This structure requires seven seams to form the concha correctly. They are sewn from twill weave nylon to give it a stiff structur
The first revision of the SEP animations rack. The goal is to pack six actuators into an inconspicuous box that can sit at the base of the wearers head. I prototyped this using low end ultra-nano servos, which was probably a good thing, since I melted
While at Bronycon, I saw several people sporting servoed ears by Nicomimi. They are a pretty novel idea, ears that move based on “Brainwave Tech” which supposedly senses your level of mental activity. They are good for what they are, a novel
We made this mural for our friend’s kid’s birthday. She was having a Rainbow Dash themed birthday party, so we saw fit to give her the biggest present we could.
A set of seam punk goggles. Made from brass, stainless steel, and leather; these goggles use notch-filter glass to provide the user with a red-less view of the world. This was a fun build I did over my last summer in high school.
A simple pendant made from a Russian pre-amp tube and a broken clock. This took only a few hours to make. When I found a gear that fit the pin out of this tube perfectly, I just had to make it.
