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Nov 2015

The making of an escape room puzzle

#Visual arts#art#creative#design#escape room#functional design#luxury#puzzle#typewriter
So here is one of my first assignments as a business! And a very interesting enjoyable one at that! Meet the Remington.  A piece of mechanical beauty, right? Now as for the assignment, the idea is that someone types in a word, and then a different word is typed on the paper – i.e. the next clue. So I figured, if I could mix the hammers, that would achieve that. After a lot of deliberation, with some complex restraints, such as that no letter could be used twice, I came up with several combinations!   But none really seemed good enough.. Plus, upon closer inspection, I realized, it wasn't going to be quite so easy. The arms all have their own angle, and would make a different place impossible. I considered, sawing them and then re-welding them, but in the end had a better idea. Using 3D printing devices, I would make my own stamps! I was able to open up the bottleneck of the puzzle options!   The trick would be,   WINGS to CLOCK       After a couple of attempts, tinkering with the settings (this here is 3mmx2mm), with 3D-printing I was able make my own hammers!   So went home, got the angle grinder out, and removed the original stamp off the typewriter hammers.   Here I was getting excited as I had the first letter "C" working. The stamps on the right are the ones I hadn't added yet, and are still ground flat. Not satisfied with the level of accuracy of the stamps, i set to cleaning them. Coming up to a better, end result, the letters are defined and well pressed, the hammers i really tested, and seemed to have no problem with any level of intensity in typing. I am afraid the only picture I have the typeset is a little off, the O hasn't really claimed its space. This is down to my ineptitude of typing, wherein you really need to fully press the key, before it moves your page up a little. But the overall project has definitely been a successful one, and the escape room I built it for, they where mighty impressed!

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