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macro pattern 1
object: 11" x 22" poster
fabrication technique: lasercutter on blotter paper
total time: >5 minutes from beginning to milling | 130 minutes to lasercut
Fault description:
The lasercutter has a problem where it cuts for a while, then ‘dives’ off to the lower right hand side whilst keeping the laser on. If you don’t stop it it quickly reaches the limit of the stepper motor travel and starts cogging.
This has occurred with multiple files from various sources.
A proposta do Clube Maker de Setembro foi explorar o universo do Mobiliário Digital, uma das áreas mais tradicionais do design de produtos. Ao longo do clube, exploramos o uso de diversas ferramentas de código aberto para desenhar e prototipar projetos, tendo a fabricação digital como ponto de partida para uma pesquisa individual de cada participante.
O Clube foi facilitado pela designer Luisa Fosco e pelo artista Fernando Daguanno e contou com a parceria da Cobra CNC.
Fotos: Paulo Oliveira
"We have never had a year of peace" is a three book encyclopedia about governmental data of the Americas. Into this is cut the dates and locations of every US Military intervention over the last ~100 years.
I just put up an installation of work at Eyebeam for Studio Visits. This is work I have been producing over the last 6 months. The work is primarily old found books cut with the laser cutter, as well as some laser cut drawings. Pictured above is the first of three books.
Sprinkled throughout are altered reference books. like taking Dictionaries and turning them into memorials. It is kind of like putting an ironic inscription on a tombstone...
BugBlue was experimenting with glass etching by means of lasercutting. The end result is beautiful.
View a video of the etching process here.
90 Cents by Surface Area installed in The Great Recession at PNCA's Feldman Gallery.
Framed, mounted dollar bill with laser
cut text
Much of a year later, this remains my favorite thing I've made in architecture school, both for its totemic weirdness and inscrutability, and the relatively high level of labor that went into it. While this was meant to be a course on "quick fixes in architecture," usually it takes a lot of work to make things look easy. I've had more than one quarter where I lucked out of doing the big, elaborate final model (and one project for Doug and Jackie where I just failed to do one)...this is the one time when I really felt like I put all my efforts into making a really finely-executed model, and I'm really proud of it.
Base in scrap wood from the shop, painted in one of Raspberry Truffle's complement colors (the one I dubbed "I'm OK, You're OK"). Body in RT-painted heavy illustrator board, framed in basswood and weighed down with scrap. Surface screens are chipboard, painted with RT, then laser-cut with the paneling. The tubes are bicycle inner tubes, sprayed with plastic primer and a million bajillion coats of white spray paint. They hold their shape thanks to multiple plugs made of clear plastic tube over wood dowels, and also received the white spray paint. The inner tube is held to the outer by some kind of nasty plastic-on-plastic glue, and where the tubes bend down and touch the surface, they get just a light dab of Krazy Glue. Each tube has one long plug where it runs between the cardboard slabs, and a short disc further down to maintain a semi-round section.
(The original idea was that the primary tubes would be the clear plastic ones, but I could never get them to bend down correctly, hence using them as an armature for the much more pliant inner tubes.)
Pattern-generation experiment with a laser-cutter, vaguely inspired by the Usonian brick patterns of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Stills from Dan Eckstein's primarly photo based video interview with me.
The full interview is here: vimeo.com/7136290
A couple of laptop stand designs prototyped by myself and Will Kemper. These all rely on finger joints cut with the laser cutter. The laser cutter takes out a small curf, so this has to be accounted for.
I have been using the laser cutter to cut words out for gifts. This one was schwag that was left over after one of the fashion shows. The font is Zapfino, with canals removed from the font to support the counters. That was done in illustrator. I am planning on actually making a proper font out of that technique: Stencilino.
Who needs a computercontrolled lasercutter when you could do it with a handcontrolled stroll saw!?
Production of 40 different letterpress posters in 33 different languages! From Chinese to Russian to German to Arabic... And so on and on and on..
Printed from handcut MDF blocks... I've got still a few to do. haha
Photos of the prints are gonna follow! But first I probably need to cut for another week or so...
Come make your own gadget, robot or wearable art at Tam Makers!
On Wednesday evenings, we host ‘You Can Make It’ workshops for adults and teens in our makerspace at Tam High School. During these open sessions, participants build new projects, with guidance from our staff and other community members.
Many of them are experienced makers, who are happy to share what they know. Here are some of the cool maker projects they are working on this month: a graceful robot spider, an eagle god with creepy eyes, an Arduino-powered garage opener, a Wifi server on a chip, and many laser cut picture frames.
If you are interested in creating your own maker project with the help of others, join us this fall, on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9pm in the woodshop at Tam High School in Mill Valley. Learn more about You Can Make It:
www.tammakers.org/you-can-make-it/
One of the great benefits of this open shop program is that you get a lot more than just access to tools: you join a community of makers who like to make things together and help each other.
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I just put up an installation of work at Eyebeam for Studio Visits. This is work I have been producing over the last 6 months.
The work is primarily old found books cut with the laser cutter, as well as some laser cut drawings.
This is "FDIC Insured" a collection of 130+ cast off investment books from the Strand dollar racks, engraved with the logos of all of the failed banks of the Great Recession.
130727-N-ZA585-093
WASHINGTON (July 27, 2013) Dan Barlow, a programmer with the National Institute of Mental Health, uses a multi-meter to test the components in a power supply unit. The power supply unit will be used in the ventilation system for HacDC’s laser cutter. HacDC provides a space in Washington for tinkerers and makers to see their visions to completion. (U.S. Navy Photo by Seaman Patrick Enright/ Released)
The sun/shade work is a representation of the sunlight in Helsinki over a year, measured by a solar radiation sensor and re-represented though code and a lasercutter into Finnish wood. The work investigates our sense of nature, and the meaning and interplay between data, form and physicality.
( Many thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory for sponsoring this project, and to the Aalto University / ARTS / Wood workshop for helping me realise the project ).
A year in solar radiation
On the work's vertical axis, columns of dots recount the sun's activity from the beginning of the day ( i.e 00:00 ) at top, to the day's end (ie. 23:59 ) at the bottom. The columns, from left to right, show every other day from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. The size of the circles indicates the quantity of sunlight. A 2007 Helsinki's light is retold. Intensely light in summer - in the middle - with occasional rain and clouds darkening the day, and intensely dark in winter - surrounding the light summer period.
Resolution: 182 columns (every other day in the year ) by 144 rows ( one measurement every 10 minutes in the day )
Cutting: with light naturally, like this: vimeo.com/24000033
micro pattern 1
object: 11" x 22" poster
fabrication technique: lasercutter on blotter paper
total time: >5 minutes from beginning to milling | 130 minutes to lasercut
I just put up an installation of work at Eyebeam for Studio Visits. This is work I have been producing over the last 6 months. The work is primarily old found books cut with the laser cutter, as well as some laser cut drawings.
Along the right side of the wall are laser cut drawings of security patterns from the inside of security envelopes.
We had a blast at the first meetup for Tam Makers, our new makerspace in Mill Valley. We hosted this free event at the wood shop at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on June 8, 2016.
A diverse group of people came to the visit the shop, learn about our classes and discuss how to grow our maker community. Participants ranged from experienced artists, technologists, makers and woodworkers, to people interested in learning new skills, as well as high school and middle school students and their parents.
We opened the shop at 6pm and folks started to connect right away, checking out some of our demos, showing off recent projects and touring the space. At 7pm, we gave a presentation on Tam Makers, and talked about our first courses, meetups and tools for adults and youth. We then discussed these programs as a group and received some really helpful feedback.
Most people were very interested in participating in Tam Makers and using the makerspace regularly. They also liked the mix of classes, ranging from maker art to technology and woodworking. Some people signed up for classes on the spot and most wanted to join more meetups. Many offered to volunteer as well. One person said this event had a great community feeling, unlike more commercially motivated makerspaces.
We’re really happy that this first meetup went so well and that so many folks want to participate actively. We look forward to collaborating with our new maker friends very soon!
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