Archive for August, 2009

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Look what my daughter did!

Here is Ariel’s rather steampunk creation in brass and laser-cut acrylic: a school supply box made at Techshop Durham. I just advised and assisted: this is her creation. She’ll be 14 on Monday, so I’m pretty darn proud of her work!

TechShop has been a great influence on Ariel. She’s now [...]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Rapid Prototyping Technology for Furniture Fabrication

(i.e.: make it out of cardboard first)

I’m planning to use the ShopBot and a sheet of 3/4-inch MDF to make a cocktail table (that sounds so much more glamorous and retro than “coffee table”, don’t you think?) for our living room. I’m designing the whole thing in PartWorks then I’ll feed the plan [...]

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