Thursday, June 30, 2011

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Wargaming Proxies



These were laser cut by Dr. Offset (using Ponoko) for the game Gruntz.

Thanks to Kristen Turner for for giving me a heads up.

Monday, June 27, 2011

SparkFun


A little radio made with SparkFun parts from David Mellis.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Sun Cutter Project

Markus Kayser - Sun Cutter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo.


This amazing work from Markus Kayser was shown to us by our friend Sascha Grant.

So if the standard type of laser cutting is too fast pased, but you need more excitement than watching paint dry, the Sun Cutter may be for you!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Woodcut


Laser cut wood cut and its resulting print from Basia Smolnicki.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

NLC Design #13: Help for Joplin

I have a friend, his name is Lemonade The Unicorn, and he is from Joplin Missouri...



If you would like to help Lemonade help Joplin you can, by:

making a $10- donation through the Salvation Army by texting the word Joplin to 80888.

donating to the Salvation Army directly,

donating to the Red Cross,

or by visiting RebuildJoplin.org.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Tierack


Laser cut from birch ply by Edgar Wong Baxter Jr.

File available from Thingiverse.com.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Emotigraph


The Emotigraph is a laser cut animatronic face by Matthew Garten.

Courtesy of cclark395.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

NLC Design #12:Custom Eye Chart Maker


I'm kind of obsessed with generators - like bar-code and QR-codes generators - so I love this eye chart generator from Tom Blackwell.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Facade Vignette Model


Made with Rhino and Grasshopper unrolled and then laser cut from Alex Dickinson.

mnlth.com

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Friday, June 10, 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Hemmesphere Lighting


I showed lighting from Massow before, but this one is really lovely.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Open Source Algorithm


Our friend Paul Kinsky uploaded his algorithm that generates sheets of polygons and connectors that can be laser-cut and connected with cotter pins to form arbitrary 3d surfaces. It takes .OBJ files as input and outputs DXF files.

Monday, June 6, 2011

NLC Design #11: Vivian Maier


I'm not sure if I have mentioned this, but in August I will be moving from Southern California to Chicago to get my master's degree (in architecture), and I have decided to rejuvenate my personal blog (some how it is still alive and kicking) by taking constant photos of the new city I will be living in and post one per day - the best seven per week.

I was inspired the Chicago street photographer Vivian Maiers' amazing work - read more here.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

DIY Tunnels


These are laser cut from acrylic by David McCourt and he says he will make some if you want a pair.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Catan Board 2


I previously posted about a laser cut Catan Board here.

This one above was made by Shandy Brown and was made to fit Mayfair's 4th edition tiles.

Read more about it here.