Laser cut walker

[Mitchell Andrus]

My son is taking Comp Sci courses at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was quite excited when I received my laser this summer and thought about designing a project that could be 100% laser cut to show off at school next month.

Here it is. It's made of 1/4 plywood (doubled for strength), completely laser cut. He designed it in Corel X3. The gears were a challenge as X3 isn't a true CAD program and as far as I know doesn't 'make' gears. The gear file is attached.

The thing works, and stands 13" tall and is 23" long. I doubt it would walk if a power supply was grafted onto it. The cranks make the legs travel a bit too long and it's very unstable. For a second year student project, I'd give it an "A".

Let me know if you'd like the files, I'll post them - maybe a cool scout project...?

Mitch

[Joe Pelonio]

Very clever. I hope he does get an A.

[John Esberg]

I like the looks of his work. Great job! Have you shown him an laser cut clocks? Those are really neat projects too.

DAK

[Bob Tate]

Hi, that looks really neat. I for one would love to see a plan for that Walker. I can imagine the hours of fun my Grandkids would have with it.
Thanks for showing it.
Bob

[Shaddy Dedmore]

Where do you get plans for laser cut clocks?

The walker is great, A+

Shaddy

[Mitchell Andrus]

Yea, I'd like to make a clock or two myself.

Mitch

[George M. Perzel]

Hi all;
Try this site for free clock plans:
http://www.pathcom.com/~u1068740/clock_all_gears.html

Good luck
George

[Dennis Kotlowski]

Great looking project....and a Star Wars fan I see..lol.


Dennis

[Linda Tetreault]

Here's one more site with gear clocks, www.scrollsaws.com, he also has some interesting plans & many of them are .cdr.

Linda

[Kevin Z. Johnson]

you sound like a proud dad:o I would be, good job!