Ponoko - All items tagged with game

Lolcatachet

Ponoko — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:09 GMT

At the end of last year we spent a day at the office working on our own holiday creation challenge. Dan challenged the team with a brief to "design and make something that would keep a child entertained for hours". This is Team 1's design - it started out as a trebuchet and then sort became a catapult/trebuchet hybrid. What ammo do you need for a catapult? LOLcatz and cheezburgers of course! As it was a reasonably complex design we concentrated on getting the initial prototypes out very quickly. So if you're keen to make one of these you might want to review the design in detail. Some of our tolerances we're a little off :) The LOL-cat-a-chet is made out of MDF for the machine and the ammo is made out of Red TINT acrylic.

Bagatelle Table

Ponoko — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:42 GMT

At the end of last year we spent a day at the office working on our own holiday creation challenge. Dan challenged the team with a brief to "design and make something that would keep a child entertained for hours". This is Team 1's design - it's sort of a hybrid mashup of a 'parlour' bagatelle with a pinball machine inspired ball launching mechanism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagatelle We created a simple box from good ol' reliable and underrated hardboard with an insert in the base made from Italian poplar, for contrast The base then had some holes cut and scores engaved. As it was a very complex design we concentrated on getting an initial prototype out very quickly. Things we learnt from that process: • nodes are incredible the first prototype fell apart, the final design was such a tight fit that it required clamps but once in place held better than glue http://www.ponoko.com/mingleandshare/design_tips • the force of the spring pulling on the back of the box required us to add in a second plate • we had to tweak the holes by countersinking them, otherwise the ball tended to run right over them. • the raster engraving was too deep in places and the ball often got caught in it and followed it down. • we cut several different curves to fit in the top to see which worked the best to create some randomness in the balls trajectory With some tweaking of the locations of obstacles and additional decoration this could definitely provide 'hours of entertainment'.

Small MindGame

mira — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:47:49 GMT

This is a reduced version of a mind game a friend of mine discovered in India. The box is about 9,4 x 11,6 cm, and the pieces 4x4, 4x2 and 2x2. The goal is to get the big square piece out of the box, only sliding the pieces left-rigth-up-down. If you need help, contact me and I will give you some tips. The photos will help you to build the game. The material used is ACRYLIC-Clear Transparent, and 6mm tick. This thickness is important to fit the pieces. Template size: 181mm x 181mm. You may use transparent glue. Good luck!!!!

Knot

keebOo — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:18:51 GMT

In the summer of my 12, my vacancy was in the house of my grandparents. Alone, waiting some friends, during the first week I made this 3d puzzle with a wooden piece found in backyard warehouse of my grandfather. Here the 2008 revision, for the Ponoko Contest. Dimension is proportional to the material's thicknesses, the example shows: - white acrylic 3mm - whiteboard double-sided 6mm - clear transparent acrylic 8mm Nice to test your ability, to make a gift and to hidden some text engraved inside the knot. (12 pieces to make the 'Knot')

Tessa

keebOo — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:13:48 GMT

Tessa is a tessellation puzzle: a board 690mm wide and 230mm high where all pieces is sligthly different each other (from left to right). Nice optical puzzle to hang on wall too, made by acrylic, in 3 colors: white/black/red, white/black/grey and in other combinations (see materials on ponoko)

Travel Chess Set

LessThanThreeProductions — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:04:24 GMT

1' x 1' travel chess set.

Pentaminoes

TheVaporTrail — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:58:00 GMT

A classic puzzle with twelve pieces. Each unique piece is made of five squares.

CatClump

WilliamWaite — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:55:08 GMT

Sixty copies of a Precolumbian cat design are engraved on the building blocks of this puzzle. Each of the 15 pieces is a combination of four cats "clumped" together in different ways. A devilishly difficult puzzle and a real challenge for the laser engraver. Number of solutions unknown. This puzzle might be produced with 0.39 inch Tasmanian Ash mdf pieces and 0.16 inch Technoply Beech base. If the puzzle is made at about the 15 cm x 19 cm size, 10 puzzles could fit on a P3 size board. This would bring the cost of wood to $4.30 per puzzle. PuzzleChallenge

InterlaceCircle

WilliamWaite — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:54:24 GMT

This Puzzle is based on an Islamic interlace design and has just 18 pieces. The frame extends into the puzzle in several places (the isolated section at the bottom of the picture is an example). This begins the pattern, and engraving on the base continues the design to help in the solving process. This engraving doesn't give away the solution because each piece will fit in many places throughout the pattern. The cherry wood pieces hold each other in place, but there is a lot of space between them which reveals the contrasting base. If this puzzle were made at about 18 cm across, then 8 puzzles could be fit per P3 size board. With a 4mm Italian Poplar base and 10mm American Cherry MDF pieces and frame, the cost of the wood would be about $5.14 per puzzle. PuzzleChallenge