What can't you do with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe? The ubiquitous blue PVC water pipe can be seen along most streets here and appears to be one of Thailand's most plentiful un-natural resources. A wide variety of different connectors are available and apart from carrying water it is usually used as an affordable building materials that can be utilized to make every little thing from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and store signs. After all on the web you may as well discover another very cool and creative things made from (non-blue) PVC pipe including: Halloween costumes like Ben Hallert's Matrix APU and Aliens Exo-skeleton Power Loader, another power loader costume, single and multi-guitar Guitar Hero stands, a laptop stand, chemical-free bug control flutes, Zap Zone Defender and even a shaving stand. Below you will discover, in chronological order, a few of my very own (largely unique) creations made from PVC water pipe together with: - 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, - a Nightstand/shelves, - Push Up Bar/Handles, Fake Legs, - a Hilbert Cube, - a Mario Kart steering wheel, - a Guitar Stand, Hockey Sticks, - a Tank-recreation (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, and - a Trident.

This was the undertaking that began my love affair with blue PVC pipe. I had seen the blueprints for this marshmallow shooter while I used to be in Australia but the fittings were prohibitively costly (see the picture proper). Fortunately they're 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-diploma elbows. The backboard is a non-regulation dimension piece of plywood that we discovered lying around and we used inexperienced duct tape for the markings. Although the ring isn't strong sufficient to grasp off, Zap Zone the facet helps make it robust sufficient for regular play. They also give it a really Star Trek really feel and I feel the ring appears not in contrast to the NCC-31911 Saratoga. This is probably probably the most straight forward use for PVC pipe on this page. 2 x 25mm to 18mm (1" to 1/2") reducers, 2 x custom motorbike hand-grips, four x push-buttons, and a mercury change that are linked to a computer through a hacked USB joystick.

You will discover more particulars about how I made the controller on this venture page and that i've also extended the identical thought to play GL-Tron utilizing 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 video games". It received me thinking and over the subsequent week I spent my evenings constructing a PVC racing automotive controller - primarily a wheel-much less, PVC go-kart frame linked to the computer via a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai university college students who saw the primary automotive wished to know how all of it labored and six of them got here round one Saturday and we spent the entire day hacking joysticks and constructing a second car. By connecting them both to a laptop computer and a knowledge projector we had been capable of play split-display Daytona USA. You could find more details in regards to the design and building of the automobiles on this mission web page. The white office table I used for the virtual pinball machine wasn't excessive sufficient to be played comfortably.

1 x T-piece, and a couple of x elbows - partially to assist air circulate however largely to carry my display up because the spring within the hinge has damaged. As straightforward as this stand chemical-free bug control seems to be, the "L"-shaped upright section is actually a part of an air-conditioner mount for a data projector that I made for one of many digital pinball table installations. The T-piece isn't glued and so in a small means (a very, very small way) I like to think that if the air-conditioning mount were ever needed once more then the elements might re-combine in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like approach. In fact if that occurred my laptop computer display would fall down. I do not own a Nintendo Wii however I did manage to get my palms on a Wiimote in order that I might try out some of Johnny Chung Lee's cool projects. This is a Wiimote mount I constructed using a length of 35mm (1 and 1/4") pipe, some 18mm (1/2") pipe, 3 x T-pieces, and four x elbows.

The 35mm pipe has been cut so that it matches properly into the ridges down the aspect of the Wiimote which holds it securely. That is screwed onto a T-Piece which has also had its high lower off. The joint between the two topmost elbows just isn't glued so the angle of the top section may 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 proper. A mercury change can also be mounted on the suitable handlebar so the accelerator can be utilized to provide enhance inside the sport and as much as 4 bikes will be related to the computer through 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 is a music stand made from three completely different sizes of pipe.