A breadcrumb trail of project notes
ITP students are a rather eager bunch. Not content with just taking classes, the actually teach other classes/workshops called DriveBys as well. Normally they are on Thursday nights, but there is such an excess of keen that they happen on Monday nights now as well. This Monday, November 12 at 9:15pm at ITP, Nick Sears [...]
Read More..>>After creating some crazy wigs out of blue insulation foam through the highly inefficient process of 3D modelling and laser cutting it turned out my wig was too big. So I took out a few panels and cut it down with a Leatherman (to a tolerance of a few thousandths of an inch…. sure). Long [...]
Read More..>>Yesterday my Assistive Technology class visited the Adaptive Design Association in midtown Manhattan. Adaptive Design creates custom equipment for children with disabilities so they can more fully participate in daily life including education and play. A lot of the work they do is creating custom seating. If a child can’t sit properly for extended periods [...]
Read More..>>For Halloween my friend Stefan and I decided to go way geeky and make some wigs out of blue foam using the Eyebeam laser cutter. Stefan and Karl have been working on scripts in Maya to automatically divide a 3D surface into profile curves suitable for rapid fabrication so this is proof of concept for [...]
Read More..>>On day 3 I played some more with surfaces in SolidWorks. The Dimonte Group “curvy stuff” tutorials are great. SolidWorks “solids” are actually macros that create surfaces! I still haven’t gotten my head around SolidWorks enough to create a snap-together part out of a lofted surface. On day 4 I wrote some code in Processing [...]
Read More..>>I decided to learn SolidWorks since it’s designed for solids modelling and seems a perfect match for the 3D printer. Brian (another 3D intern) and Michael (the R&D Tech Director) tend towards Maya. Maya seems like the tool to use for dealing with characters and geometry captured from graphics-oriented programs (using the incomparable OpenLab creation [...]
Read More..>>The kids at Eyebeam are the coolest, the 3D printer is more fun than should be legal, and SketchUp is no longer my girlfriend. I made a compound curve in SketchUp using extrude along a 3D path, exported using the su2stl plugin and loaded the STL file into Catalyst (the software that takes an STL [...]
Read More..>>I’m pleased to announce that I’m interning for the 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication position at the Eyebeam OpenLab. Here’s the job description: 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication The OpenLab houses a Dimension BST 3D Printer, which has been used internally for a number of projects, including OGLE and Robot Clothes. We are seeking an intern to coordinate and [...]
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