Build your own Tetris shelves, budget version
by Kevin Kelly 
{ Jun 2nd 2007 at 6:01PM }
If you want to do it yourself and save all that dough to buy things to actually put in the shelves, then what you need is an instructable that shows you the know-how. Although we mentioned these recently in a post about Tetris ice cubes (so cool ... get it?), we felt they deserved a spot of their own to give you all a summer project to work on.
If any Joystiq readers are ambitious enough to build these (and how about some color shelves too, eh?) then be sure to take photos and let us know about it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dr. Strangel0ve @ Jun 2nd 2007 6:13PM
at first I was only mildly interested.
Then I realized they were individual pieces and could be stacked.
Bookmarked for if I ever need shelves on the cheap.
Tim @ Jun 2nd 2007 6:29PM
That looks pretty awesome. I just might make this when summer gets here. It will hold my gaming memorabilia proudly.
Neebs @ Jun 2nd 2007 7:06PM
Is it that hard to nail boards to other boards and maybe do some measuring?
Rare Hare @ Jun 3rd 2007 1:44AM
Neebs:
Harder than you'd think. I'd imagine the toughest part would be cutting out the corners. You have to be really exact to get them to fit correctly.
And you'd probably only be using nails if you were a complete doofus. More than likely I would choose screws. Apparently you've never worked with stuff like this before. So I guess you're all talk.
Brandon @ Jun 3rd 2007 2:24AM
It's harder than it looks. Especially if you want to be able to re-arrange the blocks. You also have to take into consideration the thickness of the pieces and subtract that from the overall size of the space. Your type of wood matters as well, and how you have to take into account how you fasten the pieces together. I have built a minor experiment using some left over MDF plyboard just to get a feel for what were were up against. (You don't want to use cherry or something nice for your first draft, or at least for the extent of my woodworking skills).
The angles on some of them are not 90 degrees, and there would be of course, twice as many and some trim around the entirety of the shelf arrangement, but this area serves as a see-through area from my living room into my dining room. The whole area is
approx 5'x5'.
We will get around to a final working model hopefully in the next few months, with nicer wood.
We have also decided to enlarge the pieces slightly, as it's hard to fit much on them right now.
http://www.computerstoponline.com/images/arrange1.JPG
http://www.computerstoponline.com/images/arrange2.JPG
http://www.computerstoponline.com/images/arrange3.JPG
It's VERY GHETTO at the moment, but y'all wanted pictures, so it will look MUCH more professional when I have time to re-work it for its finished form.
I WILL have a huge Tetris bookshelf in my home....for cheap :)
Brandon
Acceptable Risk @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:10PM
This bums me out a little. I built a set of Tetris shelves a couple of months ago and was in the process of writing an Instructable about it, myself. Now that's all a wash. I was gonna win that laser cutter, too...
Ah well... Here's mine if anyone in interested.
http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1018068jc4.jpg
Kevin Kelly @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:41PM
Acceptable Risk: Very cool! I especially like using the long piece to hold DVDs, games, etc. Nice work!