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I wanted a nice way to display rockets instead of my current block of wood with dowels poking out the top. Designed these in CorelDraw :)
18mm & 13mm rocket display stands cut from 3mm Acrylic.
You can download and make your own from Thingiverse www.thingiverse.com/thing:4139
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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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.
View more photos of You Can Make It:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157670867561896
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A work in progress:
One year in temperature materialised in acrylic.
The height is the temperature values.
Each row is one week long, and with 52 rows, there's one year in temperature, in Helsinki, Finland.
The year covered is the one between may 2009 -> may 2010 . The winter was quite cold, to say the least.
This was just a test. Am hoping to do a bit of a skinned surface in the end, and use a more natural material, like wood.
... just need to get that coordinate points count down. Seems the CNC toolpath machinery doesn't like it too much.
__ Thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory, for providing resources to do this and other physical information visualisation research.
We are developing a public makerspace in Tam High School’s state-of-the-art woodshop, to make things together and grow a community of makers, students and teachers in South Marin.
This week, I used the laser cutter to make characters for our City of the Future course. In this ‘maker art’ class, lower and middle school students are building futuristic homes with cardboard ‘wonderboxes’ and animated characters such as these. They will bring these wood figures to life with lights, sounds and motion, using simple electronics.
Geo Monley showed off ‘Maker Field’, the city his high school students are building with his help. Here’s their work in progress, which now features a variety of buildings, as well as animatronics powered with Arduino.
These projects are good examples of what we could support with more maker programs for adults and teens in this new Tam High makerspace. More on this later.
View more photos of our Tam High makerspace: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660433218276
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Learn more about Geo's technical courses at Tam High: www.marinlearn.com/index.cfm?method=ClassListing.ClassLis...
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 work is called "Before and After." I wanted to call it "Before and After President Reagan Lost His Memory" but that seemed a little overdetermined. So I just write it here. It is books from an 1982 and 1992 World Book enscribed with things that were (Free Love, Analog, Prisoner of War) and things that are (HIV/AIDS, Digital, Enemy Combatant.)
Had a slight problem lasercutting where everything was on fire, briefly. Don't do that. (lasercutter was fine - just needed to have the lens cleaned)
Laser cut model of mathematica spikey made from acrylic. This one is smaller than the first, and I used solvent welding instead of glue, so it looks much better.
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.
View more photos of You Can Make It:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157670867561896
View more photos of Tam Makers:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660433218276
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Emily Oppenheim's 2010 OCAD Design Thesis Model. Emily drafted these files up in Vectorworks and then output them to lasercutter compatible SVGs.
credit: Emily Oppenheim
Today, I finally got my laser to cut vectors. It's been in the room about a month, and all I could get it to do is rasters. After a series of emails with Lenore and Windell of EMSL , I knew that the contour lines needed to be .001" and they were helpful in some other suggestions. The Epilog rep was not much help in vector creation without expensive sottware, but while talking to him on the phone I figured it out this afternoon.
Here is my new process for designing a laser cut box.
pemtech.pbworks.com/w/page/32516385/LaserCutBox
This is based on using windows, open office and cut studio. My room doesn't have linux, so I'm sticking with the standard software shipped with the tools.
Surprisingly, everybody uses Corel draw, but I don't want to spring for any software. After a LOT of hunting, the only thing that seems to create a cutable file is Cut Studio, which is bundled with the Roland CAMM1.
Another thing about this workflow is that it skips all the merge shapes processes that I've been using in the Fab Lab processes. By changing the color to black, you can park the shapes next to each other and there aren't any interior lines to have conflicts with. The path is created by exporting a jpeg of the design, then importing that image into cut studio for contour line extraction. I suppose that this should work in the Fab Lab process by just using the Open Office file from the FabMenu.
While it may be a bit messy process wise, it does work, and matches up with previous projects my students have done. After a few rounds, it should be easy to reduce some steps.
While working on developing this workflow, I went through a familiar series of steps:
* Pursue a difficult goal without knowing how it could be achieved while believing that it can be achieved.
* Try lots of things to see what will work and ask around, look online, gather info on what the requirements are.
* Eventually succeed in getting it to work the first time with a simple design made quickly.
* Create a more complex, carefully designed version quickly to confirm that it does work.
* Assess the result and identify aspects that should be improved in future versions.
* Write up a workflow for other people to follow so they can replicate the results.
* Communicate the process so that other people can try it.
* Gather feedback on what works and what can be improved on the workflow.
This workflow creation process might be called a Translation of the Hack as it starts with some unknown technique and ends with a repeatable process that others can benefit from
Our second laser cutting class at Tam Makers, taught by Geo Monley and Chelsea Andersson. This new evening course for adults took place on June 22, 2016 at the woodshop in Tam High School, Mill Valley.
We started the class at 6pm, by showing students how the laser cutter works in detail. We then took turns cutting up photo frames and other simple projects, while the rest of the class took a certification quiz.
Students seemed to enjoy this class and told us they learned a lot from it. This is one of our first maker courses at Tam Makers, and we’re really happy that it is going so well; we look forward to teaching more classes in the fall.
Learn more about this Laser Cutting class:
www.tammakers.org/laser-cutting/
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