20th Nov 2020

Parol Lantern Frame

Below are the new designs for 2020. Email me your address and quantities at darcy@inventorArtist.com. I’ll respond with a payment link. Also, I’m getting a very high volume of requests...

25th May 2020

Thank You Cards

Here’s some super cute cards I made inspired by David Bull’s video. This is based on work by Ichijô Narumi in 1906 the title is “Female Nude Seated in Water”....

25th May 2020

Full Moon

Here’s a moon print (work in progress). It’s seven plates carved from cherry.

25th May 2020

Business Cards 2020

I’ve been making business cards out of all sorts of things. I’ve recently adopted printmaking and am finding that a great choice. So this year I am doing another run...

25th May 2020

Mothers Day and Fathers Day 2020

I managed to get together a unique design for both these occasions. I deliberately made designs that are also useful as thank you cards later so I can make more...

01st Dec 2019

CNC Dust Control

I’ve got this cute little cnc3018. It’s portable so has potential for PR for CNCs in general. I decided to try an experiment with dust control. It came out great....

20th Jul 2019

28BYJ-48 Stepper Gear Hack

Doug came up with this cool hack to convert the 28BYJ-48 to a four wire stepper. This makes the motor a bit more useful. I decided to try a gear...

20th Jul 2019

Trade Show Badges

Doug and I are working on these cool badges for the Makerfaire. Here are a few experiments. Lots more to come. They will form an infrared network and exchange graphics...

14th Jun 2019

CNC Probe

I wanted a prob for checking surfaces for slight deviations from flat. I poked around online and couldn’t find anything reasonable. So I made one from a broken endmill and...

08th Jun 2019

Facere-Bot

This is an experimental drawing robot. It was designed to be portable, light and fast. Facere is Latin for “do”, “create” or “make”. I’ve had a few requests to do...

06th Jun 2019

Dip Bot

I’ve had this project in the pipe for some time and I finally started to converge enough to write some code and get some experimenting done. I decided on an architecture...

03rd Jun 2019

Carving a Skateboard

I carved the curved surface of a skateboard. I measured the curvature of the surface with a ruler and vernier taking a sample every inch. I then modeled the curve...

02nd Jun 2019

Cycloid-O-Matic

Here’s an installment for the #hack613 challenge (to make a machine out of 28byj-48 steppers). It’s a three-axis cycloid drawing machine. I drew it up in Sketchup and designed the...

29th May 2019

Swirly Bot

Here’s another installment for the #hack613 $10 CNC Challenge! This is based on my previous Swirly Draw. It’s designed around the 28BYJ-48 Stepper motor and A4988 stepper driver. In the...

22nd May 2019

Northern Lights

Here’s an 8 1/2 x 11″ Northern Lights light box. How is it done? It’s a CD being rotated in front of a servo. I used an old Arduino Uno,...

08th May 2019

Etch A Sketch

We’ve got a challenge to build a simple CNC system over at hack613. Here’s my first installment! How it’s Made I took some measurements of an Etch A Sketch and...

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