A How-To for Toothy Wheels June 30

Make your own gears with Ponoko

The MAKE blog recently featured a guest post from brainy, bad-ass Dustyn Roberts on making your own gears. The article includes step-by-step instructions for using Inkscape to design your gears and using Ponoko to have your designs made.

For those of you who have always wanted to try out Ponoko but don’t know where to start, a simple project like this is a great way to get a feel for the process. And even if you don’t have a need right now for laser-cut gears, you’ll have a pretty cool coaster. : )

via MAKE

Posted in Kristen Turner, Laser Cutting, Laser Cutting Tutorial, Various How-To by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post

Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting

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2 Responses to “A How-To for Toothy Wheels”

  1. Generating Buzz for Making Things Move | Making Things Move Says:
    July 1st, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    [...] later we posted an excerpt from the book! The How-to: Make your own gears also got picked up by Ponoko, Hackaday, and adafruit [...]

  2. Edgar Castelo Says:
    August 29th, 2010 at 5:02 am

    Got 2 more ways to make gears, here:
    https://sites.google.com/site/buildyourstuff/gear-wheels-the-easy-way