Breadboard extension DiningTable

Objectives: What does the image look like on the screen? Can you see an image with room light? What do outside images look like at different distances? Why?

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Breadboardtableextensions

Overview: A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens, but has a tiny aperture (the pinhole) instead. It is effectively a light-proof box or tube with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the pinhole and projects an image on a screen in the box or tube.

Optical Breadboardtable

Marc will show you every stop of the process involved in making this Dining Table with Breadboard Ends. The table features elegant curves, compound curved legs and is made 100% of solid cherry. Of course you can build yours from any species you like. The table is relatively small for a dining table and is designed to fit into a smaller spaces, but still comfortably seats six.

Marc is a podcaster, video producer, woodworking enthusiast, and author of Hybrid Woodworking and Essential Joinery. He has contributed articles and video content to FineWoodworking.com, Popular Woodworking Magazine, WOOD Magazine, and Woodcraft Magazine. He is also the host of The Wood Whisperer, an instructional woodworking video series that’s been going strong since 2006. He is also one of the hosts of the Wood Talk podcast. He has taught classes at the William Ng School, Marc Adams School, Weekend with Wood, Fine Woodworking Live, as well as at various Rockler and Woodcraft stores. He also speaks periodically at woodworking events like AWFS and IWF.

Breadboard endstable

Tools: Jointer, planer, miter saw, band saw, table saw with dado stack and miter gauge, router with edge guide, chisels, flush trim saw, rasp (or spokeshave), drill press, Circular saw or track saw, block plane, card scraper, Lee Valley drawing bow (optional), Dowel Plate (optional), flush trim saw.

Supplies: Empty Pringles can, diffuse paper (ideally press and seal wrap, but wax paper and parchment paper also work), scissors or exacto knife, push pin or other sharp pointed instrument, tape, black paper (optional), wrapping paper (optional)

What’s Happening? Unlike a lens, a pinhole can focus light coming from any distance. Because it’s such a small opening, it only allows light to come through in one place, and in only one direction from any particular source.