Would you believe the multi-tiered toolbox pictured listed here begun its existence as a piece of bog regular PVC pipe? It definitely wouldn’t be our initial preference of creating material, but as demonstrated in the movie right after the crack, it only will take a warmth resource and some thing suitably flat to convert a piece of PVC pipe into a functional sheet materials.
Unrolling the PVC pipe and having it flat is coated in the first minute of the online video, when the rest of the operate time is dedicated to setting up the tool box. Each and every and just about every piece you see below, other than for the screws and lid hinges, is very carefully minimize from the PVC sheet. However we suspect a handful of a lot more chunks of pipe went into this construct than the online video would have you consider.
Would we create such an elaborate box if we had to slice each piece of the issue out by hand? In all probability not. But then, we can’t deny the last outcomes listed here are very spectacular. Incidentally, if you believed all those hinges on the top rated seemed a large amount like inbound links eradicated from a enjoy band…you’d be appropriate.
Admittedly we’re a bit late covering this a person, and beneath regular instances we may possibly have permit it slip by given the many million views it is amassed more than the previous year. But the central concept of reusing a typical substance to establish one thing unanticipated is good Hackaday territory, and aligns carefully with this year’s Hackaday Prize problems.
Thanks to [Keith] for the idea.