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drewprops
Space Pirate
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2007-06-09, 00:16

Leachboy, what's that made from? Is it Legos or something more unusual?

My big "arts and crafts" project was building the rPhone that I posted a few weeks ago. It started as a series of sketches in my sketchbook and finally went into full production after a month or so of planning. I built it primarily using a matte baord that we called "museum board" during architecture school.... it comes in 2-ply and 4-ply and is quite tough when cut into small pieces....

So the rPhone is actually NOT built of brass and rosewood, it's built of paper and glue and bits of styrene.

I built the pull-out earpiece using one of those inexpensive "travel style" USB cable keepers with a built-in inertia reel. So when you pull on the cable it actually unspools.

The rotary dial ALSO uses an intertia reel... when you "dial" a number the rotary dial spins back into its original place.

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Last edited by drewprops : 2007-06-09 at 00:17. Reason: rphone.