Waag Society Fablab Amsterdam

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Hallo

here my first fabmoment feat. ShopbotPRS

The goal was to incrave different textures into a softwood. Here I used Plataan which fairly soft but in future I will create more samples with Oak and other hardwoods.

The fiels got prepaired in Rhino and exportet in stl.

Since this was a one sidet test we fixed the wood with 4 screws into the cnc table.

We rough milled the the first path with 3mm flatend mill and went then down to a 1/64inch flatend mill to do the finishing.

For this project we've created an cnc signature machine, with the looks and feel that fit a dictator.

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Cutting large pieces at ProtoSpace in Utrecht. Since there was a large format (approx. 250cm x 120cm) CNC table router available we were able to cut the larger pieces out of wood (OSB: oriented strand board), which simplified the assembly and lowered the cost.

In addition to cutting out the shapes, we also milled partial-depth grooves to position the acrylic pieces and to hold them in place.

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The goal of this project was to create a piece of art that is crafted digitally but requires at least some analog intervention by the artist. This is the first of a line of digitally crafted art pieces.  Thanks to the FabLab for making my work finally come to life. Below you will see the steps.

Picture 1. Original photo
Picture 2. Live Trace in Illustrator, cleaned up to assure one continuous shape, offset path to 1.5 mm to account for the 3mm diameter of the drill bit.

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The RepRap is a do-it-yourself 3D printer, capable of reproducing (most) of it's own parts. The name RepRap is deducted from Replicating Rapid Prototyper, designed by Adrian Bowyer, professor at Bath University, England. Instructions and all necessary data are available completely free of charge to anyone who wants to build a personal 3D printer.

While doing a project for the Dutch tax services, we created a nice logo for an interactive installation we are building. A good opportunity to see if I could get the Modela cnc machine to work thru cad.py, the program Neal Gershenfeld wrote to work with all of the fablab machines from one interface.
The program is clearly written by someone who likes programming and coding, but otherwise really nice to work with. This summer a group of coders is actually getting together to make a GUI for the thing, so if you are not into programming at al, just bear with us...

http://www.deskproto.com/

Good milling software, currently running on the BZT pf1000c milling machine in the Waag fablab.

has issues with 2D milling.

http://www.secotools.com/

Leverancier van freesjes voor de Modela.

Milling bits for the modela.

Currently in de Waag fablab:

0.3 mm flat tip
1mm flat tip (two)
3 mm ball tip
3 mm flat tip
4 mm flat tip
5 mm flat tip
6 mm flat tip

5 different engraving bits