QBN "Makers"
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- applepirate
anyone here into MAKE magazine.... arduino's.... turning sketches into real life products?
- applepirate0
stuff like this coactlab.com, buddy of mine's site..
he does projects ranging from lighting--->furniture.
not trying to spam QBN with anything, just more and more burnt out on web/design projects and more into making moleskine sketches turn into things i can actually use.
curious if any other designers/programmers feel my love for things of the sort?
- tile0
I'm totally in love with it, but still have to find the time to play with it. I'm gonna order an arduino starters-kit one of these days and start tinkering with it.
- its tough for me b/c my projects all have seperate learning curves to produce.. and ADD isnt good for learning curvesapplepirate
- in which way? Too complicated? When I look at source code it seems pretty straight-forward
tile - the code is only 10% of the problem for me, im just shit at learning enough to finish projects. "starting is easy finishing is hard"applepirate
- finishing is hard"applepirate
- any other platforms you can recommend? I fancy ADD because of the possibilities with processing and actionscripttile
- other platforms similar to Attention Deficit Disorder... Or Arduino? Im a real novice with arduino, just a huge fanapplepirate
- haha ... other to the arduino (ADD = Arduino Duemilanove ?)tile
- blaw0
I'm into MAKE, for the same reason you point out: It's nice to work on something physical. Contributors to that magazine are top-tier smart guys, making physics everyday fun. How can you beat that?
Good stuff at their site, too.
http://makezine.com/
- applepirate0
i checked out your new site blaw... really dug seeing woodwork on a QBNers site! my redneck stepdad has a woodshop and its the most endearing fact about him.. i love being able to help out with a pad sander for a few hours just to feel my arm go dead and remember what its like to "work with your hands" typing and Wacom's just doesnt cut it for me anymore.
- tile0
btw: any of you have experience with http://www.ponoko.com/ ?
Seems like a convenient way to compliment certain projects (eg: I have this idea for an automated custom-shadow casting lamp. The mechanics would be hand-made, but the housing/body could me ordered at ponoko) ... also: I don't have the time and place to invest in my own workshed.
- http://www.ponoko.co… a friends account where he is giving his plans away, really cool projectapplepirate
- Ponoko is new to me. Thanks for that link.blaw
- Blaw, for someone like yourself that is good with your hands and also can use Illustraror, ponoko is amazingapplepirate
- for small parts you cant manufacture yourself or just to make things you dont have the time/tools forapplepirate
- applepirate0
YES!!! ponoko is RAD! i have multiple projects that i have in Illustrator trying to get them ready to upload and have them cut by them. Havent used their services yet but i have a profile. http://www.ponoko.com/showroom/a…
really like their site. really easy to use and very well made tutorials and sample files to get you on your way to making things.
- pizzafire0
this looks incredible :
http://blog.makezine.com/archive…
- JSK0
This is a proliferation of industrial design but one thing thats missing out the equation is the factor of material understanding.
Key factor is ability to understand material and build according to them in relative to usage, aesthetics, and production-ability.
Best thing to do is play with your own material and design. With out understanding the production process, the product it self becomes faulty.
Same way, you cant design something for the web when you have no idea how it would be built or understand the limitation of the technology.
- blaw0
There used to be a thread named "Make Something" or titled similarly, where QBNers could post various made things, anything from crafts to randomness. I searched for it a month or so ago, but came up empty.
- harlequino0
I have so many Make and DIY instructionals bookmarked. I hope to actually one day build something. Starting with a meat smoker.
- applepirate0
yeah. starting the projects is the hardest! its really intimidating, but once you get a project spread across the living room your significant other's hatred of your "mess" will get you motivated in no time!
- Nairn0
Can anyone push me in the direction of a good tutorial/guide/book/process for making bent laminate ply forms?
I'm trying to start up making real world products - I figure true consumer convergence of tech design tools and physical output machines is just around the corner, so I'm 'trying to get involved in that' to put it very vaguely. Half of my intention is to - in a few years time - merge computers, CAM, natural & low-industrial materials and traditional hand finishing techniques.
I get so much more excited these days flicking through instructables, make, hackaday et al than through graphic and marketing design mags and sites.
- JSK0
bent laminate ply forms
Search for Vaccum molding and heat bending
- JSK0
For vaccum molding, look for woody called bendy wood
- Nairn0
I'm hoping to make my own laminates - setting good quality veneers on tech-quality ply core, using a CAD-designed shaping frame, gluing them in, layer by layer. A carpenter chum looked at me aghast when I asked him if he knew how to steam-bend wood!
- JSK0
Steam bending you can do at your bathroom but its very time consuming. and you need the right mold and claps increments.
I would suggest vaccum modeling. You can rent the set. The issue would be making the mold.
Gluing the layers do not work with out equal pressure. And simple clap system do not give equal pressure unless you have torque measured air gun or wrench to support it.
- If there was an emoticon for 'over my head', I'd write it now - but please keep throwing keywords and phrases at me!Nairn
- http://www.valuecrea…JSK
- JSK0
You can also form veneer to foam core with distinct shape.