Winners of You Fab 2012 Laser Cutter Design Contest
I was asked to be one of the judges in the You Fab 2012 laser cutter design contest, based in Tokyo. There were so many terrific entries that it was hard to pick the winners.
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Laser-Cut Seaweed for Sushi Rolls
Our fantabulous Sales & Marketing Coordinator, Gillian BenAry, hipped us to this awesome application of the laser-cutter: designer nori rolls. Quick, do it for beauty and frivolity before sushi restaurants start selling display ads on your dynamite rolls! Designer Nori: Delicate Laser Cut Seaweed Patterns
Lattes And Laser Cutting Under One Roof
Shibuya, Tokyo is now home to Fab Café, a coffee house with a public use laser cutter. Just walk in with a vector design and your material and enjoy a cup of coffee while the laser does its thing.
Bendy Corner Arduino Box
I’ve been meaning to do some tests with this relatively new technique for creating flexible parts on the laser cutter. I’ve been meaning to build a new project box for my Arduino. Oomlaut beat me to both! Ever since we came acrossย thisย amazing technique for laser cutting hinges weโve been thinking about what we could […]
How-To: Add a Laser Head to a CNC Mini Mill
David Prutchi, whose surplus plutonium probe shenanigans we covered last week, received Micro-Mark’s branded version of the popular Sieg X2 mini mill for a recent birthday, then retrofitted it with a CNC kit from CNC Fusion, and then retrofitted it again with a CO2 laser head he built himself from a surplus tube. David writes: […]
Cut Your Own Wooden Six Pack Holder
Don’t risk breaking any bottles next time you carry beer to a party. Now you can make your own 6 Packer, a laser cuttable six pack carrier designed by Thingiverse user timogiles. Since it’s designed in OpenSCAD, an open source parametric 3D modeling program, you can easily change the material thickness, bottle diameter, fastener size, and hand grip size and cut a 6 Packer to your own specifications.
How-To: Lasercut Printing Plates
There’s something so charming about combining high and low tech, which is why I like Trammell Hudson’s latest tutorial. The NYC Resistor member posted an excellent guide on how to use a lasercutter to create intaglio letterpress plates out of acrylic, which is much less expensive than using the traditional copper. Intaglio plates have the positive image etched into them which creates reservoirs that hold the ink and are transfered to the paper.
