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- powertoni0
This place is dope:
http://techshop.ws/Im not a member, but i would be if i had any time....of course if i had time i wouldnt have any money to make shit so.....
- powertoni0
I have the street outside my apartment wired with pir sensors that tell me when the parking becomes available.
i've bought a couple of microcontrollers including the MAKE controller that you can direct with actionscript but i havent done much with it yet other than figure out how to use it.
- im open for suggestions if anybody bay area wants to work on a project.powertoni
- pizzafire0
this looks incredible :
http://blog.makezine.com/archive…
- applepirate0
nyc kids check this place out http://www.nycresistor.com/
- 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.
- JSK0
different woods react differently to methods. I used thin layer of oak and heated a metal barel and bent it on top but it was very fragile.
I would only use plywood types on vaccum and female / male clap bending.
- 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.
- JSK0
- JSK0
Book on Frank Gehry's bent wood chairs are good source to learn from.
- 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