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After seeing this design for modular furniture on dornob (an architecture and furniture design website), I thought it would be cool to make my own. I designed the bracket shapes in Inkscape, converted them to G-Code with CamBam, and then cut them out of wood. I then took these wooden models to the local aluminum foundry (where they normally hand-cast things like pots and spoons). With the help of a friend speaking Lingala, I was able to get a good price per item (important since the hexagonal shelves I built have 34 brackets). The brackets came out a little bit rough, so I had to do some cleanup on them. I really like the finished product though! Check out the photos on Flickr.

And now you can view a tutorial on my new website CommentHow.com

Back in April, I started on a woodworking project to create a wooden chest. Now in November, I have finally finished it!

The chest was influenced by several elements from the immersing game Shadows of Angmar: The Lord of the Rings Online. One of the chests in the game had carved bird heads jutting out from the sides, and when I saw it, I was suddenly inspired to build one myself. I drew up plans for a simple square chest, capped by a triangular lid, with carved eagle heads for handles on the sides.

The lower front panel’s design is based on the design of Thorin’s Hall in Ered Luin, where dwarven characters start their lives in Middle Earth. The design was wood-burned onto the panel with a wood-burning tool, and then colored with colored pencils for wood, before being covered with a protective coat of spray paint.

The front lid panel bears a chart of stars and constellations. Each star has a pinprick hole in its center. When it’s dark and a light is placed within the chest you get a semi-accurate view of the night sky (star sizes and luminosities are not to scale).

Every once in a while, I visit register.com to see if any good domain names with my name are available. I discovered recently that jeremy-brown.com was available, so I decided to snatch it up.

I installed this nice WordPress theme Dark LiquidCard, created by the French artist and designer Jori Avlis. Thanks Jori! With a few tweaks to the code, I was able to enable WordPress widgets in the sidebar. Now the site is up and looking good.