Ponoko - All items tagged with toy

Pepe Rocks 021

STUFF — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:00:56 GMT

Toddlers Rocking Horse: plantation Hoop ply timber, screws, natural rope, delivered flat pack, easy to assemble - 10 mins. even with little helper. Finish in natural furniture wax [not supplied]. H [seat] 270 x W 295 x L 425mm > Adult supervision required at all times during use.

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'.

Snake-Like Creature

reedwade — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:22:01 GMT

A segmented snake-like creature. This is my first Ponoko item and the press to fit worked much better than I had expected. The connecting segments are just tight enough that you have to twist them in and after a few turns they're just loose enough to give snake friend a pleasing movement. I used Inkscape to lay it out. You can find the SVG file here: http://triumphovermadness.com/drup/node/227 More photos at: http://flickr.com/photos/reedwade/tags/ponoko/

Decoder Ring

reedwade — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:22:30 GMT

It's a fun decoder ring. Useful for low end spy activities. More info and the Inkscape SVG source files at: http://triumphovermadness.com/drup/node/229

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

SomethingFishy

WilliamWaite — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:51:48 GMT

This puzzle has only 10 different pieces but 176 different solutions to fit those pieces into the fish-shaped tray. The pieces consist of all the permutations of connecting 4 fish scales together. This means that the pieces can all fit together with each other in a multitude of ways. With so many solutions and so few pieces, you might think that this is an easy puzzle, but it isn't. The solver is often left with one or two pieces at the end that don't fit the space that is left. Most people will need to backtrack and try again and again. This item could be cut from several different colors of tinted acylic and then the pieces switched around between them to produce several multi-colored puzzles. For example, make 1 complete set of fish pieces in each of 5 colors and use 2 pieces of each color in each of 5 puzzles. Using a P1 size for the puzzle with a 3mm white acrylic base, the cost of the materials is $4.48 per puzzle. PuzzleChallenge

0101 BINARY D0M1N0ES

Badweasel — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:59:25 GMT

A binary domino puzzle game where matching pieces interlock with each other. Each side of each piece has puzzle notches matching the binary representation of the face number. A 3 is 0011 for example. The puzzle design adds an extra level of fun and the potential for new game variations. Dominoes go up to double 15 to give you 0000 through 1111. 136 game pieces. I've had this idea for a while, but Ponoko provided this opportunity to prototype it. This is my first design submitted to Ponoko. The EPS also has some test pieces I intend to use to help improve the design in the next phase. FYI, the 3D renders show the pips as black spots. The spots are engraved and will be ink/paint stained. I've chosen orange plexiglass but other materials would also work.