Nautilus door

[shoeshine]

Hi all,

for those of you who were following the progress of the "mechanical iris"

Here is the latest creation upping the notch a bit.

...a fully functioning hatch door for a steampunk/Jules Verne 20k leagues exhibit. Pretty much everything milled on the bot, including all gearing and the custom made hinges.

The Iris acts as a peephole. The center crank wheel turns an opposing set of pinion gears that slide rack arms with pins in and out of the frame to lock and unlock.

all out of clear birch and .090 brass. Door is 72" x 32" frame 78" x 38" It is on a tempoary exhibition stand in the photo. The whole thing is meant to be mounted in a wall 6" off the floor so it becomes standard door height with a 6" threshold to step over (like a sub door)




Chris

[sailfl]

Chris,

Very nice work

[myxpykalix]

Amazing! How much time do you have in this project? How much money invested in making something like this? What all materials went into making this?

What was the motivation for making this, was it for a client? You have a talent for making cool stuff, thats for sure.

[billp]

Chris,
Having seen the first part of this project in person, I am even MORE amazed to see how much you have added on ! The design, and cutting of the brass mechanisms is obviously excellent, but the REAL "trick" to me is just how precise your movements are when operated...There's little ( if any)"wiggle" room in the placement of each, and every component...Nice to see "living art".....Exceptional !

[chiloquinruss]

I remember the lines of folks waiting to 'play' with the original piece at the San Mateo Maker Faire. I can only imagine what would happen with this wonderful piece! GREAT JOB!

I love this forum and the things that you folks can do with a bot just like mine! It must be just me that can't get my machine to put out stuff like this! Russ

[mims]

awesome work! If you're ever in St Louis, go to the City Museum and check out the original bank vault doors they have in there

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...bU0NvVgTT8H0VQ

[widgetworks_unlimited]

Keep posting the great projects - I feel like I'm steam punking vicariously through your creativity.

[angus_hines]

Absolutly Beautiful Chris !!!

[shoeshine]

Thanks all,

Some video:

door in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq8mW2WA_yA

Detail of iris peephole:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJOOv4ODYU

Detail of locking mechanism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCCM0ZwXsvE




Jack,

This is for a steampunk exhibit in foxboro MA.

• 1 24"x36" sheet of .090 brass, @ $150
• 1 4x8 sheet of Baltic @ $100
• around 30 bf of clear birch (premilled in this case) @ $150
• Probably around $60 in brass screws/bolts/rivets etc...

So call it an even $500 in materials.

I built this on and off over the course of 4 months so it is hard to tell exactly how long it took. But definately a solid couple of weeks as I was designing it on the fly.

High praise Bill, but it's the bot that gets it right. I just tell it what I want. It still amazes me what this machine can do.

..and Eric, funny enough, I was living in the "Lou" when City Museum opened it's doors back in what '98-'99? Awesome place, in the old sense, as in inspires "awe".

Chris

[jdervin]

Beautiful piece, beautiful finish, and a beautiful photo to boot! You definitely pulled off the trifecta.