milling puzzles?

[charper]

Has anyone tried to either mill 2D or 3D puzzles? I just got grant funding for materials to make puzzles!!! Hints and suggestions? Anyone want to try one with me for fun and giggles?

[Tony Mac]

Hi,

We have some interesting 'optical illusions' that make 2D machining look like 3D over on the vectric forum,



Also see,

http://vectric.com/forum/download.php?id=38
http://vectric.com/forum/download.php?id=37
http://vectric.com/forum/download.php?id=39

Some Mazes that can be machined very quickly at,

http://vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1050#1050
http://vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1971#1971

I hope this might be of interest,

Tony

[sdopp]

Hey sounds like a great idea. What have you got in mind?
Skip

[Metal Head]

I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind but the National SkillsUSA competition for Automated Manufacturing had the students create a nice puzzle in a box at the 2003 competition. I only have a couple of pictures. The 5 small shaped inserts were offset to make it a little more challenging to make.

[ImanCarrot]

Here's a nice little captive nut that will get people scratching their heads and saying "how on earth..."

I didn't do it, and give full credit to the chap who did- he's a freaking genius if you look at his site it's under "A classic little excersise"

http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Machining/index.html

[fizzissist]

Originally Posted by ImanCarrot Here's a nice little captive nut that will get people scratching their heads and saying "how on earth..." I didn't do it, and give full credit to the chap who did- he's a freaking genius if you look at his site it's under "A classic little excersise" http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Machining/index.html

Frank Ford looks like he's a banjo player. Banjo players are always trying to put one over on ya!