Everyday Uses For PVC Water Pipe
What cannot you do with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe? The ubiquitous blue PVC water pipe can be seen alongside most streets right here and seems to be certainly one of Thailand's most abundant un-pure sources. All kinds of various connectors are available and aside from carrying water additionally it is used as an inexpensive building materials that can be used to make all the pieces from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and store signs. In fact on the web you can even find another very cool and inventive issues made from (non-blue) PVC pipe together with: Halloween costumes like Ben Hallert's Matrix APU and Aliens Exo-skeleton Power Loader, another energy loader costume, single and multi-guitar Guitar Hero stands, a laptop stand, flutes, and even a shaving stand. Below you'll find, in chronological order, some of my very own (principally unique) creations made from PVC water pipe including: - a Marshmallow Shooter, Plumbing, Soccer Goals, - a Cricket Wicket, - a Basketball Hoop, Bookshelf Supports, - a Water Pipe Tron Controller, Racing Cars, Pinball Table Leg Extensions, Data Projector Mounts, - a Laptop Stand, - a Wiimote Holder, - a DIY Wii Zapper, - a Workbench, Real-Tron Controllers - a Music Stand Puzzle Bobble Coffee Grinder Controllers, - a Netbook Treadmill Hook, CD/DVD Holders, Zap Zone Defender Testimonial - a Nightstand/shelves, - Push Up Bar/Handles, Fake Legs, - a Hilbert Cube, - a Mario Kart steering wheel, - a Guitar Stand, Hockey Sticks, ZapZone Defender - a Tank-game (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, Zap Zone Defender Testimonial and - a Trident.
This was the project that began my love affair with blue PVC pipe. I had seen the blueprints for this marshmallow shooter whereas I used to be in Australia but the fittings have been prohibitively expensive (see the picture proper). Fortunately they are very inexpensive right here in Thailand. 2 x T-Pieces and 6 x elbows. Cricket (to not be confused with Brockian Ultra-Cricket) is Australia's nationwide sport performed with a bat, a ball, and two wickets. 6 x T-pieces, and 12 x 45-degree elbows. The backboard is a non-regulation size piece of plywood that we found lying round and we used inexperienced duct tape for the markings. Although the ring is not strong enough to dangle off, the facet helps make it strong sufficient for normal play. Additionally they give it a very Star Trek feel and I believe the ring appears to be like not unlike the NCC-31911 Saratoga. This is maybe essentially the most straight ahead use for PVC pipe on this web page. 2 x 25mm to 18mm (1" to 1/2") reducers, 2 x customized motorbike hand-grips, 4 x push-buttons, and a mercury change that are linked to a pc by way of a hacked USB joystick.
You could find more particulars about how I made the controller on this venture page and i've also prolonged the same concept to play GL-Tron using real motorbikes. A university student who performed with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller, described above, said "That's Ok but I like to play driving games". It acquired me thinking and over the subsequent week I spent my evenings building a PVC racing automotive controller - primarily a wheel-much less, PVC go-kart frame linked to the computer by way of a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai college students who noticed the first automobile needed to understand how it all labored and six of them got here around one Saturday and we spent the entire day hacking joysticks and constructing a second automobile. By connecting them both to a laptop and an information projector we have been able to play break up-screen Daytona USA. You could find extra particulars concerning the design and construction of the vehicles on this project web page. The white workplace table I used for the digital pinball machine wasn't excessive sufficient to be performed comfortably.
1 x T-piece, and a pair of x elbows - partially to help air movement however largely to hold my display up because the spring within the hinge has damaged. As easy as this stand appears to be like, the "L"-formed upright section is definitely part of an air-conditioner mount for a data projector that I made for one of the virtual pinball desk installations. The T-piece is not glued and so in a small manner (a very, very small means) I like to suppose that if the air-conditioning mount had been ever needed again then the components may re-mix in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like method. Of course if that occurred my laptop computer display screen would fall down. I don't own a Nintendo Wii however I did handle to get my hands on a Wiimote so that I could check out some of Johnny Chung Lee's cool projects. It is a Wiimote mount I constructed utilizing a length of 35mm (1 and 1/4") pipe, some 18mm (1/2") pipe, three x T-pieces, and 4 x elbows.
The 35mm pipe has been cut in order that it fits nicely into the ridges down the aspect of the Wiimote which holds it securely. That is screwed onto a T-Piece which has additionally had its prime cut off. The joint between the 2 topmost elbows is just not glued so the angle of the top section can be adjusted. These sections are merely cable-tied onto the entrance of the motorbike handlebars and the gamers squeeze the buttons with their index fingers to show left or right. A mercury change can also be mounted on the right handlebar so the accelerator can be utilized to supply boost inside the game and as much as 4 bikes may be linked to the computer by way of a single hacked USB joystick. The centerstands keep the bikes upright throughout play and a half-spherical of bamboo is wedged beneath the again tires to cease them from rocking. This can be a music stand made from three completely different sizes of pipe.