You could tinker with this concept a little and make it even cooler. With not much effort, that tiny wooden dowel could become a button, and with some creative decorating, it can disappear among a hundred other little dots all over the box. Some shallow grooves would help camouflage that diagonal joint as well. Fun!
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Change the way you drill the holes for the small dowel to a hole 1/2 through the top and just a little into the bottom piece, change the dowel to a bb and grab a magnet. That would be a secret lock.
this is the greatest thing kipkay made. bevause its easy and anyone can do it. i mean me. cause i cant do electronics i just dont know basics. but here just download print ( first google sketch up for mesuring and then print) get pices do some woodjob and whola. its done. no electronics no expensive bullshit. just wood and some paper. thanks kipkay
How to open the UnaBox. 1. Take a match and a match box 2. Put the match on fire 3. Light the UnaBox on fire 4. Take water and pour it on the UnaBox and any other things that are on fire. 5. Enjoy the ruined secret inside!
Tomas Kerslake-sweeney if your wearing gloves and they catch in the blade your hands will get pulled in and sliced up. Gloves and fingers are a lot softer than wood and steel if it's designed to cut wood you can guarantee it'll cut the glove just the same.
Dude I have that same exact secret box that you have show in the beginning of your video. It was gave to me by a friend several years ago and yours is the only other like it I have seen!!! Cool!
Rather than using that tape measure thing he used, it would be much easier to simply print out the pattern, cover your board in painters tape then glue the pattern to the taped board and cut it on a scroll saw. Probably the way it was intended, judging from the plans. You will most likely end up with cleaner lines and none of the gaps this guy had. The pieces should fit together much more nicely.
@AwesomeAllen00 good idea. it'd be cool to conceal the hole, and the magnet will lift the pin enough so the top layer can pivot out, but anyone who does not know about the magnet or location has no idea where the pin is. (if that makes any sense)
if you drill the hole for the small wood peg all the way through, you can just push down through the box and replace it after retrieving it from the inside
I described the wooden equivalent of a c-clip if you understood what I wrote. Without a retainer the box falls apart, "tension" doesn't cut it. You have to glue the lid to the dowel, and design in a retainer, obviously the dowel would require a groove all the way around so the pin or c-clip can retain it, and it can also rotate, Get it? Neither did the unadesigner.
You could attach a foot to the secret dowel if you change around the schematics. Then you could attach a foot over the pivot dowel and two more feet on the remaining corners. With the box oriented upside down, you could router the edges and cut a false seam line and attach false hinges to the seam line on one of the long sides of the box.Then it would be even more confusing to someone who doesn't know the secret to opening the box.
Very good! Anything to disguise the "secret" pin. I'd make the feet you described all able to rotate - tightly, but without any limit - and add a little limb sticking out perpendicular to the inner end of the key pin so it only comes out at a certain angle. If you can make a maze out of it, it will only come out if you rotate and move in and out in a particular sequence. The other feet have decoy mazes to make it more confuzing.
I don't, but I believe to have some skills in working with materials and common sense though. You just need a little of vinyl glue diluted with water. It is strong enough to keep the paper adherent while cutting but not too much to prevent to remove it with a moistened scrubbing sponge. Or just slightly engrave the perimeter with an awl, utility knife or a small screwdriver.
cover wood with masking tape or painters tape then apply a spray glue put paper pattern on. when done cutting tape peels right off leaving perfect wood underneath. I'm guessing you guys have never done intricate scroll saw work before.
I love all of these projects, but this one just seems unpolished to me. The Large dowel and small dowel are too obvious! Add some more large and small dowels all over the top of the box as decoys. A trickier way would be to use a hidden spring-loaded plunger-pin-latch in place of the small peg, that was retractable with a strong neodymium magnet from the bottom.
thats..not a bad idea. or in have metal pin on a soft spring inside the box and have a powerfull magnet to pull the pin and compress the spring. a hidden pin and lock type
This will only keep someone out that's being sneaky and doesnt want you to know they attempted it. Its common for me to have to break furniture to get it in the dumpster at work. This would take one hit I'm positive of that, but it is neat
Make the small pin made out of metal with tiny sliver of a wood top that matches the wood cover flawlessly, then it would require a magnet to open it! Even cooler! Could even conceal a magnet between fingers or magnetic ring
thats true, but if you have a little bit time and a coarse sandpaper (thats what google translate says for a word i dont know in english) then you can shave the metal pin smooth. (if that is what you meant
If you have the tools to do so, hollow out the small dowel that needs to be removed and put a piece of a paper clip in it. Then you can remove it with a magnet
I'd like to make something like this, only with an Arduino on the inside and a solenoid to open a latch. Maybe hook up a reed switch to a long-lasting battery pack so you can turn it on with a magnet, then have it look for an RFID tag
It would be more secret if you added a number of points to throw off the purpose of having the dowel and what its for, then it might seem like just a design feature
I realize this vid is about six years old. I'm trying to find the detailed plans and measurements for making this project, but all I find at the links provided is an article with pics from 30,000 feet. No drawings, no dimensions, no cut list. Does anyone have these, or know a for-certain link where they can be found? Please don't send me to the Makers magazine subscription page. All that's there is a link to this video, and an unsearchable, endless display of thumbnails which, after a half-hour's scrolling, still yielded no UnaBox. Likewise, if somebody knows that they are now completely unavailable, please comment. Thanks.
Knowing my family, they won't bother trying to know how to open it, they'll do it the old fashioned way. "Beat It With A Bat" until they can get to what's inside.
because the wood against good friction would be too much, unless you were to make the hole slightly bigger but then the dowel might fall out of range of a magnet. You'd probably want a way to stop that happen , perhaps making the hole in the lower lid a dimple instead and the pin just sits in there. If the dimple wasn't deep enough , it wouldn't effect the opening of the box.
If you have one, the original PS2 (Not the slim) has a "Secret compartment" That was meant for a mod or something. You open up one of the pannels (Don't need a screwdriver or anything) there's just a very big empty space behind it. Useless for anything other than a secret draw... Or at least a draw in the last place you'd expect there to be a draw.
No, the box is defective by design, there's nothing to keep the large dowel from coming out. Back to the drawing board. I can design a way better box, maybe I will. I am thinking a ball bearing in a non seen maze will have to be manipulated into a certain spot via precise (memorized) combination of tilts before the lid can open, (to summarize the concept)
