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Tiny scale model for a potential large project that isn't going to happen. Used a laser cutter for the first time for this and it's a pretty nice tool. If you know Illustrator or Inkscape or anything similar pretty well, you can quickly print out a few test pieces and figure out how thick to make gaps that plug into each other.
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our fourth class, students decorated their characters and wonderboxes, adding more color, light and motion to their homes of the future. We formed four teams to create these public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and tall skyscrapers. Students started designing these spaces together, preparing materials for next week’s construction. We also discussed names for their city of the future, with these finalists: A15, Moscow and Springfield (we will vote next week).
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. We are inviting them to invent solutions to that city’s problems -- and to dream up a better world.
Geo Monley and I are teaching this after-school class together, with the help of Cynthia Gilbert: it’s very fulfilling for us to engage students through art, technology and storytelling, combined in the same project-based course.
Students also seem to be enjoying themselves, based on what they and their parents are telling us. Through this course, they will develop a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they will learn to create their own interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Come make your own gadget, robot or wearable art with Arduino at Tam Makers!
We hosted a number of maker classes and workshops for adults and teens in our makerspace at Tam High School. During our Arduino 101 classes and ‘You Can Make It’ workshops, participants learned to build new projects using the popular Arduino boards, with guidance from our staff and other community members.
Many of our members are experienced makers, who are happy to share what they know. Some of the cool maker projects they built together include a graceful robot spider, an eagle god with creepy eyes, an Arduino-powered garage opener, a Wifi server on a chip, and more.
If you are interested in creating your own maker project with the help of others, join our Maker Clubs on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9pm in the woodshop at Tam High School in Mill Valley.
Learn more here:
www.tammakers.org/you-can-make-it/
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:
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our fourth class, students decorated their characters and wonderboxes, adding more color, light and motion to their homes of the future. We formed four teams to create these public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and tall skyscrapers. Students started designing these spaces together, preparing materials for next week’s construction. We also discussed names for their city of the future, with these finalists: A15, Moscow and Springfield (we will vote next week).
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. We are inviting them to invent solutions to that city’s problems -- and to dream up a better world.
Geo Monley and I are teaching this after-school class together, with the help of Cynthia Gilbert: it’s very fulfilling for us to engage students through art, technology and storytelling, combined in the same project-based course.
Students also seem to be enjoying themselves, based on what they and their parents are telling us. Through this course, they will develop a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they will learn to create their own interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
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!
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Learn more about this Welcome Meetup:
My partner Geo Monley has created a cool art box called “Le Puzzle de la Menuiserie” (“The Puzzle of Carpentry”).
This surreal object shows a jigsaw puzzle of an pre-industrial carpentry shop, represented in 3D, in different stages of development. The puzzle features a black-and-white drawing of an old french woodshop from centuries ago. A small carpenter figure cuts one of the jigsaw pieces, as if it had just stepped out of the picture for this job.
This art piece is to be showcased and auctioned at the Box Show in Point Reyes in August 2016.
All these shapes were laser cut at Tam Makers, a new makerspace that Geo and I are developing, to serve a growing community of makers, students and teachers in South Marin.
Learn more about Tam Makers:
View more photos about Tam Makers: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660433218276
Nokia N82.
One of a series of window screens I have been lasercutting inspired by tilings: black.mitplw.com/tiles/
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our sixth class, students worked in teams to make public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and gated skyscrapers for the rich. This week’s creations included a new city sign, more ladders, more mine workers, and tall, skinny towers scraping the crimson sky.
They also agreed on a final name for their city: 15A, named after its sector coordinates. In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines.
I am teaching this after-school class with Geo Monley and Cynthia Gilbert, and we are happy to see our students so engaged in this project. Through this course, they are developing a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they are learn to create interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful and collaborative way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
My partner Geo Monley has created a cool art box called “Le Puzzle de la Menuiserie” (“The Puzzle of Carpentry”).
This surreal object shows a jigsaw puzzle of an pre-industrial carpentry shop, represented in 3D, in different stages of development. The puzzle features a black-and-white drawing of an old french woodshop from centuries ago. A small carpenter figure cuts one of the jigsaw pieces, as if it had just stepped out of the picture for this job.
This art piece is to be showcased and auctioned at the Box Show in Point Reyes in August 2016.
All these shapes were laser cut at Tam Makers, a new makerspace that Geo and I are developing, to serve a growing community of makers, students and teachers in South Marin.
Learn more about Tam Makers:
View more photos about Tam Makers: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660433218276
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our third class, students created characters for their art wonderboxes, which represent homes of the future. They first adapted (or made) vector files of zombie shapes in Illustrator, then used our laser cutter to make wood figures and props, such as gas masks. Students also learned to use motors to make their characters move: they soldered their own circuits to connect a battery to a hobby motor and a switch, then attached them to their wood figures to bring them to life.
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. We are inviting them to invent solutions to that city’s problems -- and to dream up a better world.
Geo Monley and I are teaching this after-school class together, with the help of Cynthia Gilbert: it’s very fulfilling for us to engage students through art, technology and storytelling, combined in the same project-based course.
Students also seem to be enjoying themselves, based on what they and their parents are telling us. Through this course, they will develop a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they will learn to create their own interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
A nearly finished handmade keeper cube box.
I laser cut these out of think stock hardwood from vectors generated from a program I wrote in AS3. The program accepts the attributes of the material being cut (in this case 1/8" red heart), dimensions of the cube, and characteristics of the tooth joinery to produce the cut output. The box is then hand assembled, finish sanded, and rubbed with an all natural flax seed oil.
I use them to stash USB memory drives near my computer.
These will be available for sale soon in my Etsy shop.
Come make your own gadget, robot or wearable art at Tam Makers!
In our first ‘You Can Make It’ workshops in June and July, participants built new projects, with guidance from instructors and other participants. Here are some projects they created: a surreal jigsaw puzzle, animated owl parts, a landscape engraving.
This fall, these workshops will take place on Wednesday evenings in our makerspace 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:
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our fifth class, students finished their individual art boxes and started to create public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and tall skyscrapers. Students worked in teams to build these spaces together, and this week’s creations included dozens of new characters with gas masks, rooms with ladders, a pile of broken robots, and a skyscraper base with a mutilated poster of Donald Trump.
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. We are inviting them reach past this dystopian worldview to invent solutions to that city’s problems -- and to dream up a better world.
I am teaching this after-school class with Geo Monley, and we are happy to see our students so engaged in this project. Through this course, they are developing a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they are learn to create interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful and collaborative way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
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!
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Learn more about this Welcome Meetup:
The final setup, in place. The reader can work through glass easily. The wire out the bottom goes to the basement, where there's a relay board.
Project details and source: staticfree.info/projects/rfid_front_door/
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...
Always fans of unusual requests we were tasked to see if we could come up with some interesting keyrings for a classy countryside retreat.
After having a good old look on t'interweb at what was generally available I eventually came across glass-look acrylic that can be laser cut. It has a slight green tinge to it and looks just like glass without being so fragile. Classy. Combine that with our symmetrical 'HH' design and you're good to go. Almost. Getting access to the laser cutter proved trickier than usual given covid precautions but I eventually managed to get it all sorted. Now they live in a house, a very big house in the country...
As a side note there was a couple of bits of scrap acrylic lying around so I cut a couple more - one from yellow and one from clear acrylic - and, I think you'll agree, they look cheap and plasticky by comparison to the glass look ones. My work here is done.
Cheers
id-iom
The final setup, in place. The reader can work through glass easily. The wire out the bottom goes to the basement, where there's a relay board.
Project details and source: staticfree.info/projects/rfid_front_door/
The final setup, in place. The reader can work through glass easily.
Project details and source: staticfree.info/projects/rfid_front_door/
Come make your own gadget, robot or wearable art with Arduino at Tam Makers!
We hosted a number of maker classes and workshops for adults and teens in our makerspace at Tam High School. During our Arduino 101 classes and ‘You Can Make It’ workshops, participants learned to build new projects using the popular Arduino boards, with guidance from our staff and other community members.
Many of our members are experienced makers, who are happy to share what they know. Some of the cool maker projects they built together include a graceful robot spider, an eagle god with creepy eyes, an Arduino-powered garage opener, a Wifi server on a chip, and more.
If you are interested in creating your own maker project with the help of others, join our Maker Clubs on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9pm in the woodshop at Tam High School in Mill Valley.
Learn more here:
www.tammakers.org/you-can-make-it/
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:
patterning detail 2
object: 11" x 22" poster
fabrication technique: lasercutter on blotter paper
total time: >5 minutes from beginning to milling | 130 minutes to lasercut
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our sixth class, students worked in teams to make public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and gated skyscrapers for the rich. This week’s creations included a new city sign, more ladders, more mine workers, and tall, skinny towers scraping the crimson sky.
They also agreed on a final name for their city: 15A, named after its sector coordinates. In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines.
I am teaching this after-school class with Geo Monley and Cynthia Gilbert, and we are happy to see our students so engaged in this project. Through this course, they are developing a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they are learn to create interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful and collaborative way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our fifth class, students finished their individual art boxes and started to create public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and tall skyscrapers. Students worked in teams to build these spaces together, and this week’s creations included dozens of new characters with gas masks, rooms with ladders, a pile of broken robots, and a skyscraper base with a mutilated poster of Donald Trump.
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. We are inviting them reach past this dystopian worldview to invent solutions to that city’s problems -- and to dream up a better world.
I am teaching this after-school class with Geo Monley, and we are happy to see our students so engaged in this project. Through this course, they are developing a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they are learn to create interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful and collaborative way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Laser cut from acrylic and designed to be a Christmas gift name tag or ornament. Read more:
eikimartinson.com/archives/135-Peacock-Feather-Snowflakes...
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our fourth class, students decorated their characters and wonderboxes, adding more color, light and motion to their homes of the future. We formed four teams to create these public spaces for their city: underwater mines, segregated neighborhoods, surface rubbles and tall skyscrapers. Students started designing these spaces together, preparing materials for next week’s construction. We also discussed names for their city of the future, with these finalists: A15, Moscow and Springfield (we will vote next week).
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. We are inviting them to invent solutions to that city’s problems -- and to dream up a better world.
Geo Monley and I are teaching this after-school class together, with the help of Cynthia Gilbert: it’s very fulfilling for us to engage students through art, technology and storytelling, combined in the same project-based course.
Students also seem to be enjoying themselves, based on what they and their parents are telling us. Through this course, they will develop a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they will learn to create their own interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Preview our City of the Future in these class slides:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
austin, texas
1977
IC chip manufacturing
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
The negative space left behind after laser cutting the slices of the cute cthulhu figurine.
More details on making 3D models from laser cut slices: www.nycresistor.com/2012/02/27/laser-slicing/
Second revision of business card caliper. This particular one in a faux blue diamond plate paper.
Source files at www.thingiverse.com/thing:782
I created this Ubu Puzzle at Tam Makers, for my friend Stephanie’s birthday (a.k.a. Dr. Truly).
This wooden jigsaw puzzle features a winged Ubu, surrounded by ‘pataphysical talismans, inspired from our collective artwork, the ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine.
The puzzle was designed in Illustrator and laser cut on ⅛” plywood, along with stencil masks. I then glued the pieces, covered them with masks and sprayed them, using black for the background, silver for the wings and gold for Ubu and the talismans.
The fabrication took place at Tam Makers, our new makerspace at Tam High School in Mill Valley. It’s a great place to get access to tools and ideas, and join a community of makers who like to make things together and help each other.
Vive Ubu!
View more 'Pataphysical photos: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157623637793277
View Tam Makers photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660433218276
About Pataphysical Studios: pataphysics.us/
About Tam Makers: www.tammakers.org/