In this episode we'll be creating the most amazing cat's and dog's house using inexpensive
materials and making them luxurious using Roland printers
Hi Folks, I'm Custom Cez and I welcome you to my new series "Roland Master Maker"
We will documents a number of DIY projects hoping to be a good source of inspiration
for your own activities
During the process I will show you to some of Roland's fantastic machines
Being this episode one I've decided to start with a BANG!
By the end of this video you'll have witnessed the creation of the most amazing cat and dog
house you have ever seen
I'm going to use some inexpensive material, OSB wood boards 18 millimeters thick
Although it looks cheap we'll make it look like a million bucks using Roland technology
But let's go one step at the time
Like with every other project we start with a pile of tools, building materials and lots
of hope for everything to work out just fine
In order to start we need some blue prints, if you'd like the dog house plans are available
for download at this episode's web page along with the arduino code and all the graphics
we'll be using for this project
Follow the link to our facebook page in the description to find them.
Before cutting we need to draw the part according to the dog house designs and you know what
they say: measure twice and cut once… so, I start measuring
There's no need for special tools, even by myself, with the help of a few clamps and
a wooden strip, I can draw some pretty accurate large designs
Now I need to draw a big arch, too large for my school size compass
But I have a trick
I need a rigid strip, like an old saw blade, I've drilled two holes on it, and the distance
between them is equal to the value of the radius of the arch
Now I can use one hole as a pivot on a small nail and the other hole will guide the pencil
Quick and easy
I have another simple technique that might come in handy to make straight cuts without
expensive tools
all You'll need a basic rotary saw, I start by measuring the distance between the blade
and the base edge
In my case 28 millimeters
Then I transfer the offset onto the piece I need to cut
Now by aligning a wooden strip to the offset line using some clamps, I can use it and a
guide for the saw
You do need to be careful to the side of the cut because in outside cuts you need to account
for the thickness of the blade
For curved cuts you'll need a jigsaw, just like for the top of the entrance way
But be careful cause one wrong move and you need to start over
The front of our amazing dog house is ready to go
When I finish a piece of any project I like to put a big x on the blue print, it gives
me a sense of accomplishment
To keep the waste to an absolute minimum the door hole is reused to make one of the two
pieces of sloping roofs
Waste not want not.
So, until now I've shown you the homemade way of doing very straight cuts, but if you,
like me, are so lucky to have a friend that can lend you one of these professional rotary
saws, then you really are in business.
This tool has a precise adjustment for diagonal cutting, a very clean cutting blade and its
own track so that aligning the blade to the cutline it's a breeze
These features make the job fast and accurate
The rest of the job was very easy with the new toy so now I can move on to preparing
the wooden studs I'll need to make the dog and cat house infrastructure
You might wonder why I need an infrastructure when I'm already using half inch thick board.
This is another of my money saving tips
Using metal corner pieces can be expensive and I definitely don't want to risk splitting
a board by running screws through it longitudinally
Using the studs, with a buying price of about 5 bucks for 4 meters, pretty much the cost
of one or two corner pieces, we can ensure a robust and safe connection between the boards
The two pointy studs that will support the roof of our amazing dog house are the last
two pieces that we need to cut according to the design
I should now have all the studs and all the boards to start assembly
The plans are full of checkmarks and the trash bin is so full of crap that is overflowing
onto the floor
Good!
It's a sign of accomplishment.
Lots of scrap...
Lots of accomplishment.
Let's keep it up.
I like to predrill the screw holes so not to stress the wood and even with the extra
step the structure is ready in a few minutes
Using the boards as place holders I find and mark the exact spots were the structure needs
to be placed.
As I've mentioned before I like to predrill all the holes because there is nothing worse
than splitting a piece right when you are placing the last screw...
Because you know that that's exactly when it is going to happen right?
Right!
Before assembling the walls I want to install the cat steps, it's much easier to do it now
that later.
Consulting the diy dog house plans available for download following the link in the description,
I find the position ofthe first step and prepare the 4 screws that will hold it in
place
As you can see this process is much easier with the wall placed horizontally… and the
steps are quickly ready to go.
Now the side wall can be installed onto the structure
And with the first screw the Roland Amazing Pet House assembly process has officially
begun
You'll notice that the screws positions have been marked with a pencil line
There are two reasons for that.
First of all having all the screws nicely aligned is pleasing to the eye, secondly this
way we know that is the right position for every screw to bite onto the structural studs
Once all the walls are up it's time to tackle the inside pocket that will hide the sensor
and arduino controlled pump that will feed the automatic water dispenser
Every time a pet comes close the water fountain will turn on
If you have a dog, and you might if you are watching this, you know that they love running
water
Our Roland amazing pep house offers a fully automated solution for that
Now that the facade is up we can begin to see the final shape.
Keeping up with the dog house plans, the right side is where I designed the raised area for
the water bowl and the reservoir that will be feeding the fountain
With a couple of measures and the help of a compass and a jig saw, the stainless bowl
finds its final placement
Any decent house must have a roof and an amazing one has to have a special one
After placing the flat board that will constitute the floor of the cat house, I proceed with
the installation of a charming sloped roof
It's supported by the two pointy studs we saw before and it has the secondary function
of providing a hiding spot for a kitty or two
But you ain't seen nothing yet, the real cat house I'm gonna build right now
I start by finding the side walls locations…
then I drill the screw holes…
and finally I screw in the cad house walls
Now I can place the roof by reading the measurements on the blue prints
Now it is time to build the scratch post
We all know how much better they are that our couches for our lovely little friend's nails
The core is made by a pvc pipe cut to measure
As a coupling I figured that a wood disk would offer a good surface for a snug fit with some
glue
On top of the pipe I've designed a nice platform for the cat to rest on, they like
to sit high up at an advantage point so that they can keep an eye on what is happening
around them
The same was done with the secondary scratch post on top of the cat house
We can finally see the actual shape of the Roland Amazing Pet House
On the left side you can see the cat wheel that we'll build in the next episode, but
for now, let's concentrate on the main residence
To recap I manage to build the dog house out of four cheap OSB boards
In Italy you can buy a 2 and a half by 1 and a quarter meters, 18 millimeters thick board
of this stuff for about 18 Euros
So now that we have built the pet house it is time to make it truly a mazing using what
Roland has to offer going from this…
to this!
Let's go.
We are here at the Roland DG mid Europe Laboratories
and this place is filled with amazing stuff
For this project though they are letting us use the UV printer
This printer can print onto a surface up to 1.6 by 1.5 meters and the bridge can be raised
as you can see up to 20 cm
We'll use this printer to print onto our economic OSB wood material which is very cheap, and
in the end it will look beautiful, texturized, you can even print with a thickness on it
and you'll see by the end of the episode this is going to be fantastic
The printing process is very simple
All we have to do is place the panel on the machine's flat bed
In this case is wood but it could be fabric, leather, ceramic, cement, plastic, metal or
even glass
Then we need to load the graphics file
Before coming here to Roland I prepared all the designs I want printed onto the boards.
Drawing vectors is the way to go because you can scale as much as you want without losing
quality
Once the graphics are ready the printer positions the head over the panel to start a calibration
process before beginning printing
The ink is transferred onto the surface with fantastic resolution and UV lamp dries it
instantaneously
With a bunch of consecutive passages it could even build up a thickness made out of many
layers resulting in a base relief
This is great for tactile applications like simulating wood grains
Here we have one of the two cat house walls, a relatively small piece
Now let's get to the bigger stuff starting with the front of our dog house.
This is Giuseppe Ponzanetti, we call him Peppe
He is the ultimate Roland machines guru and he helped me get stuff done the entire day
He starts by making sure that the board is aligned with the reference grid we printed
on the actual printer bed
Then… the printing shell begin
Depending on the project, density of the surface and the desired resolution, Peppe can adjust
many printing properties, like for example the speed or, for base relief prints, the
number of layers
In no time at all here is the final product
It's almost impossible to think that in just a few minutes this cheap board could
go though such a radical transformation
Now that I've got into the swing of things let's get the other boards done, but before
anything else
I've got to properly customize this Roland printer!
One by one all the parts of the amazing pet house are turned into pieces of art
When needed we did some tweaking right on the spot
The Roland Team gave me their best asset: their know how!
No wonder they call it the "Dream Team"
Just to give you an idea of the execution time, the larger panels took about 10 minutes
each to get printed
And while we wait for them to be done, Lilla, Designer extraordinaire, and I worked on a
draft of the series logo on a Wacom board
After a wonderful day spent with the Roland Dream Team all my parts are ready and and
it's time for me to get back to my shop to put everything back together. Let's go!
Since all measures have been already taken and the screw holes have already been done,
putting back the Roland now truly amazing pet house is quite easy
In just about half hour all walls are back up and the house's facade had a set of hinges
to simplify cleaning operations and to grant access to the automated water dispenser
All the surfaces for the cat house need to be carpeted, simple but laborious process
I'm sure that pro carpet people will be able to suggest the best way of doing it,
I did my best and this is what I did
Using some fairly inexpensive felt carpet, 5 Euros per square meter, I covered all surfaces
using mainly glue and staples
Just make sure not to staple where the cats will do their nails
I did the same for the scratching poles, to favor the adhesion of the glue on the PVC
plastic I first sent it with a coarse abrasive sponge
After cutting the carpet to size I liberally apply glue on both surfaces and roll them
up together
To keep some pressure on it while drying, especially on the joint, I use some zip ties
and a board
The roof of the cat house proves to be a bit harder than expected because I want the carpet
to cover up all construction screws
After a bit of head scratching the cat climber come out pretty good
The carpeting goes on the steps and the roof as well and by now I got everything I need
to complete the assembly process
The steps are the first to get on their final position
then the cat house
the flat roof…
and lastly the sloped roof
To make the Roland Amazing Pet House truly a-ma-zing I want to install the automated,
ultrasonic sensor operated, water fountain
To make this happen I've chosen some main components:
An arduino nano microcontroller, an ultrasonic sensor, a relay and an electric pump
Have I mentioned that the Arduino family of microprocessors is an Italian made project?
Just a bit of patriotic pride here…
Anyway, by following the link in the description to our facebook page you'll be able to download
not only the doghouse plans but also the circuit specs and the arduino code to make it run
Just remember to live a like
Let's do one thing at a time, first I need to put together the piping that will allow
the water to circulate
Believe me, it's easy
For starters the dog bowl need to be drilled in order to insert one of this garden irrigation fittings
It's made out of plastic and it features nicely rounded corners to make sure the dog
doesn't cut his tong while drinking
To make everything watertight I use silicon on both sides
A 3 liters tank will be the reservoir to ensure there is always enough water in the system
It needs to be open to get inside… then drilled… and finally I use the same fitting
I used on the dog bowl
Again, I apply plenty of silicon to ensures is watertight
So, the in has been taken care of
Now we need an out
I need a second hole for the hose that will lead to the pump
I decided to use the green cup cause is made of harder plastic
It's enough for the hole to be snug around the hose to avoid spillage
Now it's like the game connect the dots, but with a hose
It's enough to warm it up a bit to make it go easily onto the fittings
A simple hole on the side of the house and I can now install a fosset
Now that everything is connected I can power manually the pump to see if everything is ok
Awesome, the mechanics of it work
Now for the electronics
By connecting a portable computer to the arduino, the microprocessor that will handle both the
sensor and the pump, I can show you what is going on
I wrote some code that reads the distance perceived by the sensor (current) and compares
it with the distance I've set to trigger the pump (trigger)
If the first is lower or equal the ladder the relay is triggered and the pump…
well, it pumps!
The trigger distance can be set with a simple potentiometer
This is useful to fine tune the system and filtered out unwanted triggering
I figured that the best place to install the sensor is near the foset and once the circuit
is powered up with a battery I'm ready to test the entire system… cross your fingers!
Excellent, everything seems to work
But a test wouldn't be a proper test without the presence of a nimce little animal
I think I have just what we need!
Hahaha, I didn't mean this animal…
I meant one of the fury one…
At this point I can button everything up and take a step back to enjoy the result of the
hard work
On paper seemed easy but let me tell you, it has been quite a ride
It looks like Dexter the dog, Butch the cat and the kids are pretty
happy with their new play house
The automated water dispenser works like a charm and everything looks certainly amazing
The Roland UV printer has allowed me to turn some cheap and anonymous material into a canvas
ready to receive any creative idea
This was my vision but what about you, what will it be?
In the next episode I'll complete this project by building a cat wheel while exploring and
documenting what new and exciting opportunities Roland technology can offer us
Don't forget to press like, subscribe to our channel and if you have suggestions on
what the next projects could be drop us a line in the comment section
Thank you for watching,
I'm Custom Cez for Roland Master Maker and I'll see you next time!
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