Mottweiler Studio

Designer|Maker - functional objects

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I’m wondering if Rose wouldn’t do well with some custom made wood specs. She’s jealous of that bear, I can tell. #carousel #carving #arabian_horse #glasses

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Some of the things we saw today. (at Asheville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkJ5Eg8prR7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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at Albany, Oregon https://www.instagram.com/p/CjslifLLZkM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Version 4 guide wheels may do the trick. Ground a simple cutter in situ and made snap fit v-groove pulleys of delrin. The low profile bearings are sensitive to the slightest excess interference fit and delrin doesn’t want to stay on the bearings anyway. So a .010 lip on the outer bore captures the bearings. The result is the best action yet for the ring drive. Now to reassemble the back and get the updated code and circuit working. (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZoGjqJLaHD/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Got to find a use for the last few MailBoo boxes. This one works OK. (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZkVSGnvJne/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The rotational mechanism for this hybrid clock camera is getting yet another revision that seems to be just the incremental improvement needed to get it working the way I envisioned. Another iteration of the rear drive system cover in aluminum looks like it should do the trick. And the first of two magnetically actuated sensor systems is being added to complete the requirements for the control/user interface. I’m hoping there is enough light in the Albany Carousel to allow a test shot to unwrap the animals onto the paper negs I’m using to test with. 8 X 10 film has gotten crazy expensive for this purpose. I’ve measured the rotation rate of the carousel to match up the rotation rate of the camera. 6 ASA may not be enough. But there’s a bit to do yet before that’s going to happen. (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/parrotcam/p/CYzUBeAPC0g/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The day my doctor suggested I might want to talk to a cardiologist was the same week we had planned a road trip to Zane’s home town of Santa Fe to escape the ever present reminders of him around the house. The southwest had beckoned for a while and our old haunts were receding too far into distant memory. As to whether we should take the trip, the doc said “just don’t go on any long hikes into the wilderness.” So with a bag full of cameras and film, the trip was on. The P. 170 proto had plenty of occasions to show off its rise and fall shutter. I think I ended driving the entire trip. Good therapy . . . https://www.instagram.com/p/CYXqUmTpfG1/?utm_medium=tumblr

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First of the year. Thinking I may resolve to drink an extra cup of coffee each day. For health reasons of course. I think 2022 is going to be an interesting year. (at Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYN94CFLhcO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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P.170 panoramic lensless camera inner panel with baffles. Working on V2 prototype of the camera with an emphasis on minimum camera size, elegance of design and simple user experience while incorporating a unique pinhole rise and fall system. https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrZUVln4vN/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Smashing it overnight. Now if I can just remember what these other things are for . . . (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRiWC3DH2vY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Making another round of modifications to this bead blaster I built when I had access to a CNC plasma cutter. Right now I’m trying to figure out how the middle light socket got so billy Ed up. Yeah, it’s upside down. (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRaWCwQHTiZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Gotta love me a straight-line sander. Wanted one of these for years and finally found the excuse when working on - a computer project? Custom contour pads were just the ticket. Used the sander recently on some bases for a ceramic artist. (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQtQWTKHVA8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Taking a break from studio building, organizing, and regular chores to install some friction hinges on the Minutero camera. I originally had these hinges made for the Novena Heirloom laptop project. They will hold they camera top panel at a chosen angle just like the way a laptop screen works. #minutero #handmadecamera #camerakraft #streetcamera #lambelambe #afghancamera #instantphotography #incameraprocessing #woodencamera #largeformatcamera (at Albany, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPOVzpSn3-x/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Three photos, three cameras 1 - Woodbläk 66 2 - P.90/2 3 - Pinoramic 120 https://www.instagram.com/p/CM81uAHHqYs/?igshid=6wt38r9ki5il

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Tacoma Narrows bridge Photographed with a P.90 lensless camera on a field trip with my bridge enthusiast friend Elliot and a site inspector. This was a few weeks before it opened. It was interesting to hear current theory about what happened to the original and to see the way the cables are un-stranded and each strand individually anchored into giant concrete castings at each end of the bridge. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSFKcGnNi0/?igshid=jiczfhy3mla9

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Florence ( I think ) Photographed with the Pinoramic 120 gullwing prototype. . . . . . . #camerakraft #cameramaker #Italy #panoramic #filmphotography #lenslessphotography #stenope (at Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMOhHaanEVp/?igshid=kg953ybxoyjb

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Italy Pinoramic 120 V2 gullwing prototype https://www.instagram.com/p/CMKd78oHUU2/?igshid=1dzzhb8yj1vjw