
PIGGOT WIND TURBINE
with: prof. Mark Runacres On the recommendation of Bob (http://gratefulfrog.net/) I attended a week-long course to build a Piggott wind turbine in Valence. I have known Piggott's book for a long time and jumped at the opportunity to build one. Blades are hand-carved out of red cedar, the generator is cast in polyester and runs on a drum brake bearing, the frame is welded steel tube. I didn't like the quality of my wel

MECCANO FURNITURE FOR FABLAB
: For the interior design of timelab, a series of modular elements were designed as an extra-large meccano set. The system was designed to be compatible with Thomas Lommee's Openstructures system. All tables, shelves & cart are constructed from 40x40mm square steel tubing, with holes drilled into them every 40mm. The connector plates are lasercut stainless steel in different shapes. In order to manufacture 400+ meter

miniCNC
date: 2010 with: timelab.org ; Kurt Van Houtte A design for a small, portable 3-axial CNC-mill. The miniCNC was developed and built at timelab in 2010-2011, with Kurt Van Houtte. It was published as an open-source kit and sold for less than 700 euro. The machine features a handle and an open floor. It was designed to sit on top of plywood sheets and mill things such as logo's into large tables or other flat surfaces. As a design exercise it was a study i