A few months ago, when I was at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, I cut a side table out of oak plywood on their ShopBot. I finished the table a month later with a combination of cherry and black walnut wood stain and a final coat of varnish. These pictures show the final result. This table is currently on display at the Better World by Design Conference.
I heard that MakerBot owners had achieved some great results by using Watco Danish Oil to treat / stain / finish their MakerBots. I used “Golden Oak” and then did a second coat of “Cherry” over each plywood piece. In the image below, you can see the difference between the treated and untreated plywood. I am pleased with the final results, the Watco Danish Oil really brought out the wood grain.
Soft circuits LED oni costume in action. Sewn with conductive thread, LEDs slowly fade in and out and are controlled by an Lilypad Arduino and powered by a Lilypad LiPower supply. The dress will run for at least 11 hours continuously. It may run much longer than that, but I haven’t tested it for longer than 11 hours.
The earrings are basically throwies (LEDs taped to a coin cell battery) with earring hooks attached with coat-weight thread. The necklace is four Lillypad LEDs wired with conductive thread in parallel to a coin cell battery.
