I'm a maker / thinker / builder / designer / artist / geek.
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I’ve got wonderful news! My project, the Anywhere Organ has just gotten funding from the Awesome Foundation. For those of you who don’t know the Awesome Foundation is a fabulous collection of folks who choose a new project every month and get it started with $1000 with no strings attached.
A little while back I made this cute little lamp. He made the rounds on the internet and I started getting calls. I started hearing from people who wanted one for their very own. In fact, I started hearing from people who own stores saying they wanted him on their shelves. Now, I was floored. I love this little guy but never thought he’d be such a hit. Now, I’m gathering funds to get a real production line off the ground. Please take a look at my kickstarter page to see how you can help.
The Fun Theory Group was founded to gently change people’s behavior through fun and play. They seek to create a public dialog of interaction with open art installations. I’ve been nominated for a grant to help me create something called the Anywhere Organ.
I’ve designed a pipe organ that can be installed into any space, a fire escape, an abandoned warehouse, a drawbridge, turning the entire space into an aspect of the larger instrument. Pipe organs have always fascinated me and it will become a tremendous instrument for getting people to play with space and sound. I’ll be collaborating with Brooklyn musicians to record the sound it makes and put on interactive shows with the organ. Still, I need you to vote for the project to make it happen. Take a look here http://bit.ly/6CDc08 and rate the project.
Thanks for looking. Thanks for reading.
-M@
I’ve discovered a few sources for MRI images and the software to turn them into editable 3d meshes. You should check out my process on Thingiverse!
Of course you want to be part of the world’s greatest experiment. You know, the one where a man is shot into space and forced to watch bad movies. Well you’re most fortunately in luck.
Download the files from Thingiverse here.
See the full writeup here.
A few months ago I published some experiments I’d been doing emulating MIT’s Bokode technology at home. For those of you who don’t know Bokode is a method developed in the Camera Culture Group at the Media Lab that tucks huge amounts of readable graphic information into a space as small as a LED. This is done by using tiny printed info just behind a lens and just in front of a strong light. When you point a camera at the lens and pull out of focus the lens projects a blown up image of the microprint on your camera’s film plane.
You might have noticed the blurry blobs that show up on film when you take a picture of distant lights or pinpoint bright spots that aren’t quite in focus. This effect is called Bokeh, after the Japanese word for blurry. You can find details on how it works here, and details on how MIT used this effect and turned it into a way to create passive, unobtrusive tagging with Bokode here.
I love the new set of home fabrication 3d printers that are emerging. RepRap is a pretty fascinating project. Makerbot is amazing, affordable, and the folks who operate the company are the salt of the earth (though they don’t cause crops to wither.) At the moment the machines are pretty basic. They’re not very well suited to jobs that require strength or precision. However, the quality of their output is improving daily and given how easy they are to modify and how open the projects are people come along regularly, releasing their experiments and improving the designs by leaps and bounds. I thought I’d create a design that creates a working mechanism using only printed parts from these machines. This pair of handcuffs is downloadable, printable, and functional. If you print a copy of your own please let me know.
Ferret7 fabricated his own set! Hot!
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These might just be the best things I have ever made. I designed, machined, and cast the bronze parts for these steampunk goggles forever ago. I put on some perfunctory leathers to call the project done ( click ) , but it never sat well with me. After spending all that time designing bronze pieces, it never seemed fair to have to learn my way entirely through the art of leathercraft to make a comfortable headpiece that reflected all the effort and craftsmanship that went into the metal.
After a time I just decided with I knew about 3d prototyping and digital fabrication, why couldn't I just make a design that relied on techniques I had already mastered? After finding out Ponoko offers leather laser cutting based on CAD files, I saw my path laid out in front of me. I started playing around with Illustrator, making paper models ( click ) and assembling them test different designs. I hacked away at the designs, tweaking and testing, until I found something that worked in paper. Then the real work started.
More to come...
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It's everybody's favorite theropod making a stunning entrance into the world of formalwear. These 1.5"x1" cufflinks are certain to bring attention to your wrists as you perform such Cretaceous tasks as opening doors, investigating electric fences, and mauling Samuel L. Jackson.
Check them out on Etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/46535100/velociraptor-cufflinks
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Just now peeling off the protective plastic from a batch of brand new raptors, well on their way to becoming cufflinks.
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I'm revising a design for goggles I made about a year back. The idea was to make serious metal steampunk goggles. The thing is I didn't have much experience in leathercraft and the results never quite fit like I wanted.
The solution: laser cut leathers from Ponoko. I'm testing out my design in paper and redlining revisions before sending the final version to Ponoko.
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The drama continues as the goggles get fleshed out more. Now it's time to make some paper prototypes and test for fit. I'm really pleased with some of the solutions for working the existing metal frames into the leather design.
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I'm seeing to a goggle design I made ages ago. Now that I've found out ponoko.com does leather cutting I'm thinking of upgrading my leathers, maybe take 'em out to BM or parade them around ComicCon and such.
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I'm prepping a thorough tutorial for the horn candles I just finished molding and casting. Keep listening on this channel for updates. They'll soon be at gianteye.etsy.com
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Ponoko ( ponoko.com ) and cufflinks will be involved.
Soon they'll be on gianteye.etsy.com
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One with and without its scratcher.
The Story
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Instinct Engineering { withinstinct.com } commissioned me to make them some exciting, unique business cards. I decided to create a scratch off design, where you'd scratch away the plan drawing of one of their engineering projects, the Raygun Gothic Rocket { www.raygungothicrocket.com/ } to reveal the finished sculpture.
I designed the graphics, invented the scratch ink screenprinting method, and the manufacture of the stamps myself. I screened these with the help of Marsha Pugachevsky { www.chevskystudio.com/ } and did all of the stamping by hand. I am incredibly relieved to have these done and out the door.
See the finished product here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00I2A-2mXs
Watch a time lapse video of me printing them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWsgdAXX4s
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It is so cathartic, seeing them all boxed up like this. I can't count how many hours were spent tinkering, testing, designing, stamping, talking with printers and experts, and generally worrying about this project.
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Instinct Engineering { withinstinct.com } commissioned me to make them some exciting, unique business cards. I decided to create a scratch off design, where you'd scratch away the plan drawing of one of their engineering projects, the Raygun Gothic Rocket { www.raygungothicrocket.com/ } to reveal the finished sculpture.
I designed the graphics, invented the scratch ink screenprinting method, and the manufacture of the stamps myself. I screened these with the help of Marsha Pugachevsky { www.chevskystudio.com/ } and did all of the stamping by hand. I am incredibly relieved to have these done and out the door.
See the finished product here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00I2A-2mXs
Watch a time lapse video of me printing them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWsgdAXX4s
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Looks fantastic, doesn't it? You wouldn't figure they were hand printed and hand stamped.
The Story
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Instinct Engineering { withinstinct.com } commissioned me to make them some exciting, unique business cards. I decided to create a scratch off design, where you'd scratch away the plan drawing of one of their engineering projects, the Raygun Gothic Rocket { www.raygungothicrocket.com/ } to reveal the finished sculpture.
I designed the graphics, invented the scratch ink screenprinting method, and the manufacture of the stamps myself. I screened these with the help of Marsha Pugachevsky { www.chevskystudio.com/ } and did all of the stamping by hand. I am incredibly relieved to have these done and out the door.
See the finished product here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00I2A-2mXs
Watch a time lapse video of me printing them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWsgdAXX4s
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I caught a break while testing out some early stampings to take a few pictures.
See the finished product here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00I2A-2mXs
Watch a time lapse video of me printing them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWsgdAXX4s
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I think this is looking pretty good. It does translate a lot of warped geometry to the back side of the object. Might require some cleaning in SW or Max. We'll see.
The process was creating a relief image in Photoshop, importing it to Zbrush as an alpha, modeling the oval pendant in Solidworks, and applying the alpha after importing the SW data into Zbrush. I use 3dDoctor to convert STL to OBJ formats because I'm lazy and like a GUI.
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I'm creating the basic shape on which the cameo will be laid in Solidworks to make sure everything's measured properly. At some point I've really got to work out the overall workflow between these programs.
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I'm designing an antique-style cameo to house some of our electronics for a color changing dress. I'm using an alpha channel in Zbrush to create the relief from a photoshopped image. I'm debating using a skin created from 3ds or the Zbrush relief brush to create the geometry on the final cameo.
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Giant Eye posted a photo:
I'm designing an antique-style cameo to house some of our electronics for a color changing dress. I'm using an alpha channel in Zbrush to create the relief from a photoshopped image. I'm debating using a skin created from 3ds or the Zbrush relief brush to create the geometry on the final cameo.
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