cutting

On a rainy thursday afternoon, I decided it was time to change the fablab wall logo that was hanging on the hallway. I discussed this with the well-respected manager Alex, and to my great pleasure he agreed.

Previously, the wall signature looked like this:

I wanted to use birchwood for it, and I wanted to cut it with the laser cutter.
The only restriction I had was that I wanted to use the shape of the current logo, because was already
connected to the wall.

I cut approximately 45 mm of foamrubber to distract our logo from it. It took me a little while to find the right settings.

In the end I decided to let the laser rerun the same print job 3 times to cut the material all the way. before that it only cut 33% of the thicknes.

I do think I will have to redo it because the logo has some very thin parts and the laser did create quite a thick cutting-line because of the heat it produces.

For a project at the V2_lab we had to develop a transparent touchpad in textile. For this we needed to create circuit boards that are thin, small, easy to mount on a textile substrate and more or less flexible. To create such a circuit board we started to experiment with cutting copper foil on the CAMM-1 at Protospace fablab.

I started with an idea to make a bag only using the lasercutter.

I took some thin 3mm multiplex for the body of the bag.

I made a digital file in Illustrator. Because I didn't want to have te lasercutter rastering the image on the bag, I wanted to keep the print in hairline, but just cpoy-pasted the image a few times while moving them a bit. This gives a really special-effect when looking at the bag, because it gives you the feeling you see dubble... (Or was it something else...?)