#Laser Cut
113 postsIdea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Read postIdea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Read postIdea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Read postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
Read postPanels - Stained glass windows project
Walkthrough of every panel in the digital stained glass window series: beehive, mountains, stars, hexagon weave, heart, sun, and more.
Read postJun 2019 brain dump
June 2019 bookmarks: a Casper nightlight teardown, the Etch-A-Snap Pi camera, SVG Nest, and stacked paper stained glass.
Read postDesigning panels - Stained glass windows project
How I design the stained glass panel patterns in Fusion 360 and Inkscape, then export SVGs ready for the laser cutter.
Read postTech Demo - Stained glass windows project
Tech demo notes for the stained glass windows: gluing acrylic, building cardstock dividers, and killing LED hotspots.
Read postInspiration - Stained glass windows project
Inspiration for the stained glass windows project, from Lumina Lab's Stoicheia dodecahedron to mandala work on Instagram.
Read postNotes from May 2017
May 2017 links: ESP32 sniffers, a giant laser-cut Bulbasaur, an 8-bit computer from scratch, Big Poop Data, and the BLACK 2.0 paint.
Read postLaser cutting in Vancouver
A guide to laser cutting in Vancouver after 4000 hours on the machines: where to cut, who to follow, and which shop to avoid.
Read postNotes from February 2017
February 2017 links: laser-cut art from 1000 Errors, paper beetle kits, Mongoose OS, the USB Killer V3, and the CIA cartography map drops.
Read postDay 94 - Radiant acrylic fox mask
A laser-cut acrylic Wintercroft fox mask for Burning Man, ruined by Gorilla Glue foaming under the panels.
Read postDay 92 - Yellow jacket
A laser-cut wood yellow jacket in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.
Read postDay 91 - Cockroach
A laser-cut wood American cockroach wearing a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.
Read postDay 90 - Blowfly
A laser-cut wood blowfly in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.
Read postDay 89 - Jumping spider
A laser-cut wood jumping spider with a top hat, another entry in the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.
Read postDay 88 - Preying mantis
A laser-cut wood praying mantis wearing a top hat, part of the Fancy Bugs series for Burning Man.
Read postDay 87 - Burning man plaque
A large map of Black Rock City for camp visitors to mark cool spots with push pins and flags.
Read postDay 86 - Fox head mask
A low-poly Wintercroft fox head mask cut from coroplast, ready for mirrored acrylic panels.
Read postDay 85 - Mustaches
Laser-cut mustache pendants strung on ribbons, hung from the dome roof as Burning Man gifts.
Read postDay 84 - MeeBox
A nesting laser-cut gift box for Burning Man, sitting in the dome for people to trade trinkets in and out of.
Read postDay 83 - Mario coins
Mario coins and coin boxes that did not turn out, passed along to a kids camp to play with.
Read postDay 82 - Visualization of DNA
A Processing-generated visualization of my 23andMe DNA data, to be laser engraved on the MeeBox for Burning Man.
Read postDay 81 - Voronoi tower
A 20 by 10 inch laser-cut prototype of a voronoi pylon lantern, aiming for a 7-foot final version.
Read postDay 77 - Little red riding hood paper craft
A Little Red Riding Hood layered paper scene with trees worth doing more of, plus a misplaced wolf.
Read postDay 76 - Princess Mononoke paper craft
Layered paper kodama from Princess Mononoke, with 5mm layer spacing that works better than the old 10mm.
Read postDay 75 - Moose layered paper craft
A layered paper moose with antlers too thin to stand up, popular enough on Instagram to deserve a second try.
Read postDay 73 - AT-Walker layered paper craft
A three-layer paper craft AT-AT with notes on tightening the 10mm layer spacing down to 5mm.
Read postDay 72 - fairy door workshop
Group photo from the fairy door workshop at VHS, with a longer write-up coming on the hackspace blog.
Read postDay 71 - fairy door painting
All the workshop fairy doors get a coat of primer before paint day.
Read postDay 70 - fairy door off cuts
Messing around with leftover wood off-cuts from the fairy door workshop to see what they want to be.
Read postDay 67 - Testing fairy door
Sample fairy doors built with friends to test designs for the upcoming Magic Fairy Door workshop.
Read postDay 66 - Pointy fairy door
A pointy-arch fairy door design, too small to use but with a shape worth keeping for the next round.
Read postDay 65 - Curved fairy door
A curved fairy door by @ninetynein, tricky to hinge but the shape works.
Read postDay 64 - Barrel fairy door
A barrel-shaped fairy door by @ninetynein that ended up looking more like an elevator.
Read postDay 63 - Brick fairy door
A brick-textured fairy door by @ninetynein, shaped to inspire kids before they paint over it.
Read postDay 62 - Triangle fairy door
A triangle fairy door by @ninetynein with a space-age 60s neo-future look.
Read postDay 61 - flintstone fairy door
A Flintstones-style fairy door by @ninetynein with lots of room for kids to decorate.
Read postDay 60 - fancy fairy door
A fancy laser-cut fairy door by @ninetynein, this run came out wrong and needs a recut.
Read postDay 59 - Hobbit fairy door two
The original plain hobbit fairy door with a straight left edge that fits hinges well.
Read postDay 58 - Hobbit fairy door
A hobbit-style fairy door designed by @ninetynein, looks great but a bit fiddly to assemble.
Read postDay 57 - fairy door normal
Plain fairy doors with extra surface area for kids to decorate at the workshop.
Read postDay 56 - fairy door magic
Smaller versions of the magic fairy door, sized down from the original Day 33 build.
Read postDay 55 - fairy door arch
An arched fairy door cut for the upcoming fairy door workshop, designed by @ninetynein.
Read postDay 54 - Lasers letters
A set of laser-cut letters with source files posted to GitHub.
Read postDay 51 - Circles panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a circles pattern for the LED light wall.
Read postDay 50 - Unfinished panel
An unfinished laser-cut wooden panel from the LED light wall build.
Read postDay 49 - Branches panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a tree-branches pattern, a favorite from the LED panel series.
Read postDay 48 - Maze panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a maze pattern for the LED light wall.
Read postDay 47 - Twelve sided star
A laser-cut wooden panel with a twelve-sided star pattern for the LED light wall.
Read postDay 46 - Voronoi pattern panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a Voronoi cell pattern, part of the LED panel series.
Read postDay 32 - Music thank you card
A laser-cut music thank-you card for a friend's wedding, 8 minutes to design and 45 seconds to cut.
Read postDay 31 - Laser branch panel
A 70cm laser-cut panel of tangled branches, made to drop into one of the CNC frame panels on the dome.
Read postDay 25 - Maker business card
An abandoned maker business card design after the Maker Faire print sponsorship fine print proved unworkable.
Read postDay 24 - Elven fairy door
A revised elven fairy door test cut that improves on the day 9 attempts for the NSG project.
Read postDay 23 - Spiral panel
A spiral Pocket Universe panel test cut in paper after running out of wood, designed by Adam Barlev.
Read postDay 22 - triangl line panel
A triangle-line Pocket Universe panel cut in wood on the VHS laser cutter, designed by Adam Barlev.
Read postDay 21 - Arcade button midi control
Four hours of crimping and soldering get the day-3 arcade button MIDI controller wired to a Teensy and noisy.
Read postDay 19 - failed maze panel
A maze-pattern Pocket Universe panel test where the paths only connect at one point, too fragile to keep.
Read postDay 18 - Failed array panel
A test-cut Pocket Universe panel that came out too flimsy to use, rejected.
Read postDay 17 - Tiny Star panel array
A dense tiny-star test panel for the Pocket Universe, likely too detailed for the ShotBot and due for a redesign.
Read postDay 16 - Star panel two
A second star-pattern test panel cut for the Pocket Universe dome project.
Read postDay 13 - Layered paper craft dragon
A layered paper shadow puppet picture frame cut on the VHS laser cutter as a test for more complex scenes.
Read postDay 15 - Arcade button panel
A test-cut Pocket Universe panel with arcade-button holes, half to be swapped for matching LEDs.
Read postDay 14 - Test polyhedron
A paper trapezohedron test for a planned set of twelve laser-cut wooden lantern shapes lit with LEDs.
Read postDay 12 - Test panels
Rejected paper panel designs for the Pocket Universe dome, one too flimsy and the others too plain to make the final cut.
Read postDay 10 - Hexagon Star
A small hexagon star test cut for the Pocket Universe dome, made on the VHS laser before scaling up on the Maker Labs ShopBot.
Read postDay 11 - String Star
A string-star test panel for the Pocket Universe dome, cut on the VHS laser to preview the design at small scale.
Read postDay 9 - Fairy doors
First three laser-cut fairy door prototypes for an upcoming VHS workshop, with a round hobbit door as the keeper.
Read postDay 8 - Moster mustache
A mustached monster vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 7 - Moster dog
A monster dog vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 6 - Moster lizard
A monster lizard vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 5 - Moster frog
A monster frog vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 4 - Untztrument trellis midi kit
Adafruit Untztrument trellis MIDI kit built in a laser-cut acrylic case for wireless dome lighting control.
Read postDay 3 - Arcade button midi controller
An Arduino Leonardo wired to laser-cut arcade buttons as a MIDI controller for the Pocket Universe dome lighting.
Read postDay 2 - 20x hexagon
Twenty laser-cut hexagons taped together around a single light source, made on the VHS laser as a light study.
Read postDay 1 - Fractal Triangle
A laser-cut fractal triangle of 96 small, 36 medium, and 9 large triangles in 3mm birch ply, assembled with 250+ zap straps.
Read postLayered paper cut with spacers between each layer
Reworking an old layered red paper-cut design by adding coroplast spacers between each layer, after seeing Charles Clary's work.
Read postLaser cut, layered circles
A 5-layer laser-cut paper circle design with a quick Inkscape tutorial on offsetting strokes with Stroke to Path.
Read postMore laser cut Guilloches
More guilloche patterns generated with an Inkscape macro and cut on the VHS laser cutter, with source files on GitHub.
Read postLaser cut spray paint stencils
Cutting spray paint stencils on the VHS laser cutter in 15 minutes instead of 2-3 hours by hand, including Cthulhu and Hypnotoad.
Read postPaper cut furniture using SketchChair
Using the open-source SketchChair app to resize chair designs and test-cut them in paper before committing to wood or CNC.
Read postChinese paper cutting done with a laser cutter
Converting Chinese paper-cut silhouettes into vectors and cutting them on the laser cutter, with a branches design as the favourite.
Read postLaser cut 4 pack beer carrier
Three laser-cut 4-pack beer carriers in 6mm birch ply, cut at VHS, with finger grooves that bite when the bottles are full.
Read postLaser cut wooden TRex
A giant laser-cut wooden T-Rex built as an xmas gift, with a wooden base added to keep the 3.5-foot version from tipping.
Read postLaser cut Frabjous
A laser-cut Frabjous sculpture by George W. Hart, scaled from 4mm to 6mm birch and given to my mother for Christmas.
Read postLaser cut Mario coin boxes
Thirty laser-cut Mario Mystery Box piggy banks for my nephew's birthday party, made on the VHS laser cutter.
Read postStar-wars engraving with a laser cutter
Star Wars scenes etched into wood on the VHS laser cutter as a birthday gift for a friend.
Read postQuick and easy word clock with a spare monitor and JavaScript
A word clock made by laser-cutting a wood mask of words and placing it over a monitor driven by JavaScript.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - The Claw Research, Version 1
First cardboard and laser-cut attempts at a three-prong claw for the Giant Claw Game, plus links to designs that inspired the next pass.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - Controller
Laser-cut controller box for the Giant Claw Game with an arcade joystick, a fire button, and an RJ45 pigtail.
Read postSpace ship mobile
A laser-cut spaceship mobile made at VHS as a baby gift, with painted rings and pre-cut string holes.
Read postThe Noun Project - Laser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
Using Noun Project icons as a source for laser-cut pendants, engravings, and geocoin designs.
Read postLaser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
A link list of places to find laser-cut files, project ideas, and inspiration for the laser cutter.
Read postLaser safe font - Laser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
Why laser-cut text falls apart in fonts with closed counters, and a switch to stencil fonts like Stencilano.
Read postLasers and Vancouver OpenData
A laser-cut wooden map of Vancouver's roads and parks made from TileMill and city open data.
Read postLaser cut layered Crystal skull
A clear acrylic crystal skull built from stacked laser-cut slices, threaded together with fishing line.
Read postWooden laser cut pendants
Wooden laser-cut pendants using Noun Project icons and Raphael-generated sacred geometry circles.
Read postAcrylic puzzle test 1
First test of laser-etched acrylic jigsaw puzzles, with silhouette animals and a paired laser-cut box.
Read postAcrylic Ornaments Batch 2
Batch two of acrylic snowflake ornaments, including 3D slot-together designs and Koch snowflake variants.
Read postAcrylic Ornaments - Design thoughts an research
Research notes on Koch snowflakes, Processing scripts, and slotted paper designs for the next ornament run.
Read postAcrylic Christmas Ornaments version 1
First cut of acrylic Christmas ornaments at VHS, with notes on letter counters and font choices to fix.
Read postDesigning Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
Designing acrylic Christmas ornaments in red, white, and black to cut on the VHS laser cutter.
Read postUpdated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
A revised VHS lightning-talk challenge coin design, with 30 cut for the next Super Happy Hacker House.
Read postVHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Laser-cut acrylic challenge coins for VHS members who give a lightning talk at Super Happy Hacker House.
Read postGeo Caching with Wooden nickles
Trying to seed laser-cut wooden nickel geocoins across New York and Toronto caches, with mixed results and a stop at Adventure Box.
Read postSimple acrylic pendants
Quick laser-cut acrylic Hibiscus and ukulele pendants as gifts for the family stops on my World Maker Faire trip.
Read postThe last batch of GeoCoins
The final batch of laser-cut wooden geocoins for the New York trip, plus a printed Nautilus Gear from Thingiverse.
Read postMore GeoCoins designs
A fresh round of wooden geocoin designs with the Inkscape source files included.
Read postMore GeoCoins tests
Dialling in the laser settings on 25 test geocoins at VHS and logging them into the thing tracker to dogfood it.
Read postFirst test of making GeoCoins with the laser cuter
First laser-cutter tests for homemade geocoins at VHS, with acrylic QR codes failing and wooden nickels reading just fine.
Read postLook what I made - Acrylic chess set
An acrylic chess set cut on the new VHS laser cutter from a Thingiverse design, my first laser cutter project.
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