Pocket Pellet Stove

My little Smokeless heater

Being inspired by the cold weather

I began tinkering on an new idea 

I wanted a portable self contained heat source 

that could fit in a backpack 

As always I scrounged around until I 

found what I hoped would be acceptable

components, in this case it turned out to be

scrap sections of a metal fence, some old

screen from a rabbit hutch and a soda can  

I drilled then taped the holes to except the legs

 cut an opening on top for the flue then had a friend 

weld it together

"Thank You Aaron"

I started testing with a handful of wood pellets
and was surprised it lasted almost half
an hour. By restricting air intake with the
top of a soda can I was able to increase the 
temperature when using pellets
Note: I did use a propane torch to lite 

As long as there were flames it put out very little smoke

The addition of stovepipe could make this

a nice little tent stove

The Principal's office chair

A nice additional to the house

I seem to recall sitting in one of these chairs while

waiting to see the elementary school principal 

After the tear down and sanding I began refitting 

the parts

I had to use some creative clamping methods

due to the irregular shapes

and more creativity in clamping 

 here I used a second bar clamp 

to keep the frame square 

Rupert the Walking Wooden Robot

Here's a fun weekend project. 


Rupert the Wooden Robot
Animated 

An earlier design

You don't need an engineering degree to build your

own walking robot. I copied the dimensions from this site 

on the Theo Jensen leg design. Adding my own

design concepts to the Jensen leg this is what I came up

with  

The first concept had great potential 

but I was unable to get him to walk

Seeing a need to enhance the design and

reinforce the leg connectors   

I cut him in half

And gave him an articulating 

mid section in hopes to solve

 one of the many issues

 Here is some of his first steps 

Now that I have a proof of concept design,

I'm encouraged to build a bigger and more

refined version of Rupert