Adam DiCarlo's Blog

I designed and built this bed frame for a Select Comfort Sleep Number queen bed. It uses 2×6s, 1×6s, 1×4s, and a lot of screws and brackets.

I was inspired by:

• A bed frame at IKEA which housed useful drawers underneath—it was pretty but it cost $300 and was flimsy.
• Lack of Sleep Number bed frame plans on the Internet—my eyes! The Googles do nothing!

My frame has a special area to house the bed’s noisy air pump. This gets the pump out of the way and quiets it significantly.

If you’re wondering why there are two pieces of wood per slat, it’s because the extra 1×4s I had lying around weren’t quite long enough. Sure glad I was able to make them useful!

Future work

Put in some nice drawers on wheels—I might buy the drawers from IKEA—and if the frame’s too short for them, add some legs and a bottom for the air pump compartment.

Having seen the smallest readable bitmap typeface (3×3 pixels per character), I decided to hack up a small JavaScript/canvas web app for fun so people could try it without having to install a TTF file.

Source: Wikipedia, under the GNU Free Documentation license.

Then, the “secret message” idea struck, so I made the “secret” message encoder. (Warning: Only tested with Firefox 3. It also requires the canvas tag and doesn’t yet work in Safari.)

You type in a message and it will give you a link you can send to someone to view their super-encrypted message.

Always great to find an excuse to play around with <canvas>!