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New plate for a fine arts print. Drawing generated with Processing, engraved into a hard ground with a laser cutter. Next step is etching in a bath with Iron Chloride. Final step will be printing this one by hand.
This is the original drawing: www.flickr.com/photos/vormplus/6891667313
While visiting the Metalab hackerspace in Vienna, Austria, I used their laser cutter to cut some more acrylic parts for the PartyLandRemake pinball machine.
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:
Some foam pieces cut with my DIY laser cutter. Black foam deli-trays cut beautifully, and the machine makes very fine cuts (about .010", maybe a bit less), and has excellent precision and repeatability... far exceeding expectations, especially considering that it cost less than $130 to make!
This variation puts both speaker elements into a single body, designed to hang on the wall. The batteries have been replaced with a power supply that plugs in. This derivative was designed and produced in one night.
Hackerspace Hack42 Arnhem was invited to demonstrate our style at Rozet's Open House 2015. One of the things they requested, was a live demo of our 2D laser-engraver which we used to engrave our logo in our infamous Dossier Verkade (part I) (and part II)... back in 2012. This portable DIY laser-engraver had been committed to the scrapyard long ago, and our current models either aren't very portable, or in non-working condition. Thankfully, Hackerspace Techinc Amsterdam loaned us a cute portable lasercutter to be able to engrave a single cookie on-site. We fabricated a nice shield for it (actually, for the visitors' eyes) and we pre-made quite a large batch of cookies with our own engraver. Mission Accomplished.
FabLab Cali, Colombia fablabcali.org
"Taller con padres de familia" fablabcali.org/index.php/component/content/article/9-sin-...
This variation puts both speaker elements into a single body, designed to hang on the wall. The batteries have been replaced with a power supply that plugs in. This derivative was designed and produced in one night.
I've been a big fan of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship after a post by Dick Stafford on his blog.
It's a neat looking ship and since I can't go to the USA to see it and the chances of them bringing it around to my place for a visit are pretty remote, I did the next best thing and made one myself :)
A bit of a hunt around the web turned up a nice structural drawing that I could vectorise and drop into Corel Draw. A couple of evenings later and this is what popped out of my laser cutter.
Well... This is the 3rd go at making it - the first two just didn't go together quite right and a little tweaking was needed. I'm pretty happy with my first 3D model!
This variation puts both speaker elements into a single body, designed to hang on the wall. The batteries have been replaced with a power supply that plugs in. This derivative was designed and produced in one night.
Hackerspace Hack42 Arnhem was invited to demonstrate our style at Rozet's Open House 2015. One of the things they requested, was a live demo of our 2D laser-engraver which we used to engrave our logo in our infamous Dossier Verkade (part I) (and part II)... back in 2012. This portable DIY laser-engraver had been committed to the scrapyard long ago, and our current models either aren't very portable, or in non-working condition. Thankfully, Hackerspace Techinc Amsterdam loaned us a cute portable lasercutter to be able to engrave a single cookie on-site. We fabricated a nice shield for it (actually, for the visitors' eyes) and we pre-made quite a large batch of cookies with our own engraver. Mission Accomplished.
Photos from our craft room. This is a dump of photos from my phone. Many may be duplicates or similar angles.
This variation puts both speaker elements into a single body, designed to hang on the wall. The batteries have been replaced with a power supply that plugs in. This derivative was designed and produced in one night.
A top view of my DIY laser cutter, made from two old flatbed scanners and a diode laser (as used in DVD burners). You can see the slot I cut in the base of the scanner that forms the Y-axis to allow the laser module to extend downwards through the bottom. Also visible is the 6 volt lantern battery used to power the laser diode and under that, the power supply for the stepper motors.
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:
Laser Works 2010: “Build a sculpture, a piece of art, a model, machine or a piece of furniture which tests the potential for the use of new prototype technology.”
Each team had 5m2 of plywood, free use of our lasercutters and 24 hours over the course of two weeks.
Arranged by Republikken and KEPS, Copenhagen.
Second revision of business card caliper. This particular one in a faux blue diamond plate paper.
Source files at www.thingiverse.com/thing:782
Dave is making up some new speaker cabinets and thought it would be an ideal opportunity to get acquainted with the laser cutter that we have in work.
His CAD was flawless, but his CAM slightly less so.
The cutter sculpted beautiful straight cuts and perfect circles...all of which were about 4mm too shallow. :(
It was a useful learning experience, but an expensive one. The board was about 12 quid and isn't too useful for anything now.
The cutting problem seems to be the density difference between plywood and MDF, but we'll get it worked out in the end. :)
This variation puts both speaker elements into a single body, designed to hang on the wall. The batteries have been replaced with a power supply that plugs in. This derivative was designed and produced in one night.
The text is written with a standard permanent marker.
One of the Hack42 members came in one day with a JD40W laser engraver. A team of hackerspace dwellers has transformed it into a powerful lasercutter.
Yesterday, when our safety goggles finally came in the mail, SA007 proceeded with calibration and testing of the laser itself. It was most successful.
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:
Some bins I made out of birch plywood on the laser cutter recently. Read more at eikimartinson.com/archives/118-Lasercut-Storage-Bins.html