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Step 5Work with what you have
Since I'm not a woodworker, I'm not going to walk you through how to measure, cut or drill holes. I'm hoping that the design is simple enough that you should be able to draw out some rectangles, make some cuts, drill some holes and have a version working for you. Hopefully the process of my prototype will give you a base to build your own.
Initially I was thinking this project would be great to make entirely out of wood. I love the look and feel of wood and when technology is combined with wood the results are amazing. Mechanical wood devices have a timeless sense of beauty and magic to them.
The sides of the endless sketchbook are crucial. You can see in the photo that I have 4 dowels to maintain structure. I drilled two rows of 5 holes on each side. These holes will hold my wooden dowels and give the paper something to rotate around.
After building this version, I realize that there is going to be way too much friction. So by making the holes larger and allowing the dowels to spin, I eliminate a lot of the friction. I have pretty good performance after looping some paper around a few times however, friction is a problem after more than a few turns of the paper.
For each turn of the paper you are getting that much more surface area to draw on. So ultimately you will want to fit as much paper in your endless sketchbook as possible.
The idea with the endless sketchbook is to basically build a box with some sort of axle that the paper can easily loop around. The photo shows the basic concept of the sides.
Dowels just aren't going to work. Time to find something else.
Initially I was thinking this project would be great to make entirely out of wood. I love the look and feel of wood and when technology is combined with wood the results are amazing. Mechanical wood devices have a timeless sense of beauty and magic to them.
The sides of the endless sketchbook are crucial. You can see in the photo that I have 4 dowels to maintain structure. I drilled two rows of 5 holes on each side. These holes will hold my wooden dowels and give the paper something to rotate around.
After building this version, I realize that there is going to be way too much friction. So by making the holes larger and allowing the dowels to spin, I eliminate a lot of the friction. I have pretty good performance after looping some paper around a few times however, friction is a problem after more than a few turns of the paper.
For each turn of the paper you are getting that much more surface area to draw on. So ultimately you will want to fit as much paper in your endless sketchbook as possible.
The idea with the endless sketchbook is to basically build a box with some sort of axle that the paper can easily loop around. The photo shows the basic concept of the sides.
Dowels just aren't going to work. Time to find something else.
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