My first Instructable - please don´t be too hard.
I´m a dreamer and I am filled with fantasy and ideas. Most ideas stay at mine for a long time and grow to anything else, sometimes they die and somtimes there´s a spark that makes an idea impossible to wait any more.
As I found two TEACUP holders at a flaemarket for just 1 buck I knew I could´nt wait to build my own goggles.
I´m a dreamer and I am filled with fantasy and ideas. Most ideas stay at mine for a long time and grow to anything else, sometimes they die and somtimes there´s a spark that makes an idea impossible to wait any more.
As I found two TEACUP holders at a flaemarket for just 1 buck I knew I could´nt wait to build my own goggles.
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As I understood is the meaning of the steampunk idea to design as a victorian that lives in the present. There will be many more explanations - my own stimulus was the impulse to do anything that escorts me since my childhood as I´ve seen Time Machine, 20.000 Miles under the sea or things like this.
The teacup holders were perfect to do this goggle job I wanted so first how to do this:
I wanted to have two cylinders that look forwards. To get the right angle I made a dummy of paper in the right diameter and took a sissor to cut until my papercylinder looked forward in a mirror and fitted well to my face.
You can (and should) do every leveling you can do at this point if you want to build YOUR goggles. If you feel comfortable and look straight into the mirror you have a stencil for your soldering work.
The teacup holders were perfect to do this goggle job I wanted so first how to do this:
I wanted to have two cylinders that look forwards. To get the right angle I made a dummy of paper in the right diameter and took a sissor to cut until my papercylinder looked forward in a mirror and fitted well to my face.
You can (and should) do every leveling you can do at this point if you want to build YOUR goggles. If you feel comfortable and look straight into the mirror you have a stencil for your soldering work.
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Would it be ok to pin your project on pinterest please?
and - thanx
Excellent job.
Okay, here's my Instructable for making a soapbox derby car.
First, you get the box and you cut it out to have all your body fit inside.
Then, you finish up with the wheels, the paint, and everything else and you are done.
That's not really INSTRUCTING people now is is?
Everything was going along smoothly, but then the abrupt 'finish' made it not really useful to me.
How were the lenses fitted? How was the strap made? How were the distance between the goggles found out? What is the spring in the strap for? What are the two little things protruding off of the front of the goggles for? And hundreds of other questions that are not answered in here.
Excellent job giving my roommate and I 10 solid minutes of absolute gut-busing gales of laughter. It was extremely amusing and brightened my day. <--Keeping my comment positive.
As for the instructable, you clearly know how to use some tools and equipment but not a lot about documenting each and every step. Might also help if you explained what some of the equipment was that you used, since not everyone knows what as a "Proxxon" is.
Step 3 is just a picture, the same one you used in step 2. Huh?? Is that like "Step 3: Look at this image for a while"?
You're a printer? God help readers in Germany, proof-read, or were you speaking of the "Classic Fard Method" that gogglemakers of old have used for centuries, when saying "I had to do it the fard way".
It's a very attractive piece of work but it seems that this is more a "showable" than an instructable.
Now pardon me while I go build my soapbox derby racer, if I follow Spokehedz's instructions, I'm a shoe-in to win it!
Love and kisses,
-Oubliette
i found that it is basically a dremel tool
You´re welcome to look at the pictures as long as you want but such was not my intention.
The lenses have a thread to be screwed in a camera lens. One cup took these tread from the beginning, the other got a minimal slit and little bending from me and it works too.
The distance were found by holding the cups to my face. I bended forward and layd them on the table and I came up again I had the right distance down there...
The strap would´nt be comfortable without gum or anything bendable. I like the springs much more for the steampunky look and as this goggle is not proven in any way I´m not sure if I do it with 4 or 6 springs. The two that are hanging around are spare.
The little things in front are from the polarisaation filters. They will be adjusted by turning the glasses to any angle needed.
There is an Awesome Instrument in the Engineering and the Educational World known as the "Plastic Scale".. Use that to get the distance between your Eyes.
The Rest as you say, that would be of cutting a dummy piece out of Cardboard is pretty neat.. much better to waste Card, than Metal.
Good Work Though ;)
And what´s wrong to use originals for this? It worked well, fast, easy, completely without any costs and prompt. Perfect for doing it once, isn´t it?
Hope this Helps
It´s a simple tool to measure any distance! Yes I got one or more and better ones and many better ones - but this woud´t help you anyway!
If I would tell you the distance of my eyes or the distance between my teacup holders to fit around my own nose you could make goggles that fit me. Do you want to make goggles for me? I already made some for me and I shared this to impress you to make some for you - I don´t need more of them.
So take your own face to find the right working measures for you. I am 194 cm tall (google says thats 6 feet and 4.38 inches) and I have serious problems to find glasses for me so why do you want to build anything that measures to anyone (or in this case - to me)?
Maybe it sounds like I´m doing this in stupid ways (Mr. Bean) but at least I know everytimes what I want (I do measuring at any point and everytimes to place my tools right) and what I need to make it supply to me.
The measuring of eyes are extraordinary difficult:
First. you need the centre of the pupil of one eye. Do this alone in a mirror and you will see that you can´t look straight ahead with both eyes and fix a "Plastic scale". It is impossible to do this by yourself - and it´s not needed. An optician needs the centre of the pupils to bring the glasses in the best fitting positions to the pupils - in this case it´s realy not needed.
These measurings are complete useless for me and for you too. It is complete unworth to know the distance between your eyes if you do it the "Mr. Bean way" because it wiil do it for this and this will fit for you and only for you! Got this?
The point of this instructable is more to show you how to see the chances in the things you find than order the things you need. These holders are about 80 years old and are made in germany ore somwhere else in Europe or anything possible. What is your chance to find a matching pair?
My chance to do the same thing is nearly zero. So I didn´t mind about a repeating, but the way to create a unique that solves for me was the first I wanted to do followed by to show how I did it. For more than 30 years I work with things that come or get found and make me thik to completely other uses. Most of them are unique and can´t be got from any store so it is unworth to know the size. It is not repeatable. Not for me and not for you. Not the measures but the idea!
Maybe I´m wrong at instructables.com to submit my thoughts. But maybe there are more people like me who take the idea and do new and creative things with the inspirations they pick up here. People who doesn´t look for a thing to copy and paste.
This goes not only to you - I wear this for some time now and I had to say this anywhere so it´s here now. I realy thank you for commend my publication.
But the big point is that I don´t want to give a stencil for a copy - that wouldn´t fit in the meaning as I see these instructions - it is more the idea and the inspiration that I find in the instructables.com
All the undescibed steps are simple filework, screws and a little bit of leatherwork - no glue, no tricks, no hidden alchemy ;)
If someone makes something impressive, you should be encouraging them, not smacking them around for their perceived shortcomings.
I for one would like to see more from the headful of ideas....
Yes, I have to do that - I justt had goggles that did a good job by refurbishing my house BUT the point is to do that thing the mind is on.
It´s a instructable and no philosopy excurse but as I need to say that there is a leftover from my time as printer and typeworker that made me go pregnant with some ideas and to stay pregnant until it´s done (and beyond that).
I think it´s not important that things have a realy use or are needed (isn´t that decadent) for me it´s the idea that has to be realized as a flow. I like the doing and I like the flow I like to see what a basic part tells me to do next to fit to the previous work as to the goal I have.
And I really can´t rebuild any of the things I´ve done already because all I do is made from things I found at scrap yards, fleamarkets or bulk rubbish - I can´t get the same materials anymore.
using the polarization filters, will i be able to watch the "Real 3D" movies in the theaters?
Great work BTW, love these goggles!
I would suggest you check out Gogglerman, he uses it and when brushed it literally disappears, for about 15 US dollars you can get a roll big enough to do 3 or 4 goggles, including the flux.
I absolutely love the use of blue color!
And many thanks for your nice reply - I´m looking forward to instruct (or show) more.
By the way very cool googles
But I thought about disassembling some cheap 62 mm filters cut the side (to get them bended smaller to get inside the cup) and glue them inside the cups but I needn´t.
I took some brass and a file and a little time. All is screwed with brasscrews 3 mm (ca. 1/8 inch).
The springs are new and looked wrong so I oiled them with linseed oil and burned them black. The leatherstrap is wider at the springs to prevent that they catch hairs!
Keep me posted on other ideas you might have.
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