Since some of you seem to enjoy these tessellation experiments, here's an old projection mapping installation project of mine for which I combined similar patterns with digital fabrication (laser cutting & cutting plotters) to produce two Victorian-style room dividers with 620 handfolded paper cones, which were then used as 3D projection surface. Visitors could use an iPad app, housed in a small dolly table (also laser cut), to produce custom animated patterns which were then projected onto the paper cones...
I see a lot of icosahedra with numbers on the faces. I thought I would try engraving one of the wooden ones with those. I didn’t want it to be too plain. So, I made some knotwork to go around the numbers.
An old printing press that used to belong to the local paper, the Royston Crow, and printed their very first edition in 1855, is being used today with some laser cut negatives I made for the local museum for their 40th anniversary.
It’s come out great, and super pleased with the juxtaposition of the new and old technology.
I designed this piece in Rhinoceros and laser cut it out of 1/8" plywood. It measures about 36" x 24". It's called Reef #1 (I expect there will be more reef designs).
After assembling 2 pcb, I had some doubts.
So I made a prototype case, to have a better idea on how it'll look like. And after some tweaking, I'm reassured. This should end looking nice.
I also gain some idea for the next iteration in the process :) #LedClock#pcb#LaserCut#ws2812b
Also, yesterday I lasercut some layers to get a better feeling of the clock and try to figure out where I'm going to put the electronic and how I'm going to make it stand.
Usually, all esp8266/ws2812b clocks are using the same pcb. But I think I'm going to design a new one for that clock and try to make it as slim as possible.
So I designed a new boad for the controller, thinner than the one I usually use.
I'll wait to receive it (hopefully next week) to finish the design of the clock.
In the mean time, I'll probably experiment with the way to display time. #pcb#LedClock#ws2812b#LaserCut
Trading the pen for the laser: I'm going to try some of my #PenPlotter designs on a laser cutter soon. I think something like differential growth would work well since it's a single path and should provide a very interesting positive and negative in the material.
Here's an animation of how I build (err, growth) them.
Differential growth, created in Python and laser cut from cardboard.
I had lots of fun today making variations of these. It’s quite something to hold this in my hand after only seeing it on the screen or paper. I love the semi transparent nature from the intricate branches.I hope to do some more iterations on these ideas.
We will be bringing some of these wooden harbour scenes to Craft Festival Cheltenham at the weekend!
I am very proud of them even if they haven't sold that well. They pretty much went as I planned, the five screen printed colours all lined up nicely and the colours showed up against the plywood.
Happy #MakerMonday , heres a #lasercut coffin I designed in #Fusion360 for #DND mini and dice I made for sale. Great gift for that party member who just wont stop jumping into holes they shouldn't.
Yes, the choice of rose dice are inspired by the song Kiss From A Rose by Seal, and yes, the dice are ordered from lowest to highest number of sides, everyone does this its very normal.
I cleaned the #k40#laser and #lasercut#disenchantment Lucy for #halloween and placed him inside our "new" outdoor light (vintage 1965 lantern with a DIY bracket and wired up for mains supply instead of a petroleum lantern).