Preface: This is a year-old post that I never published. I guess I was waiting to be able to snap some pictures, but that never happened. Most of these components have been e-wasted by now. — I’ve talked about various avenues of rapid prototyping circuit boards before, and not really come up with any definitive… Read More: Stop-gap PCB creation (has stopped) »
I prefer to do most of my laser-cutting purely in 2D. The open-source vector software Inkscape totally rocks my socks off, and I can design things about three times faster using that than anything else. When a design gets a little complicated, though, or it’s hard to see how everything fits together, it’s sometimes easier to… Read More: Actually »
Laser-etching is a modern process that effectively carves a 1-bit image onto a material. A lot of very cool images can be made with it, given enough artistic talent. I’m not one of them. Fortunately, all that heavy lifting has been done for me by artists far more talented than me. In the 16th century… Read More: 20 Percent Time »