I have a directoy named 'laser_box' with two files in it.
It is a parametric model for a live hinge. Specify a few parameters in the OpenSCAD file and you get a live hinge that you can export to a dxf, and then read into your laser software.
I finally got my GigaMacro rig up to the 'new' house (we have been here for 17 months, so 'new' seems a bit of an over statement).
It is in a sub-nominal condition, there is rust, and wear from neglect. But it is, to me, a beautiful object, and I …
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I wanted to make drawer dividers for my tool boxes, especially the out of control screwdriver drawer. I did a little search, and decided that it was worth it to just pay $3 for an SVG of drawer dividers from Pacific Grove Designs on Etsy.
The pattern is …
read moreI like customizing clothes pins. And other people also like doing it
Years ago I made a jig to hold the clothespins. And today I made a better jig.
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And calibrating the 
Hazy little thing cardboard
Engrave 300-22
Regular Cardboard
Cardboard cuts just fine at speed 50, power 60. And probably even lower would work.
read moreYou can press the laser button on the control panel to turn the laser on and then press the direction buttons. This lets you cut straight lines, like when the laser doesn't want to cut for some reason, but it engraved something that you like.
You need to lift up …
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'Engrave only support 2-bit bitmap'
Filled the transparent area with white.
Converted to Greyscale than back to RGB
Saved as JPG
Try: Optix by Plaskolite, INC Extruded Acrylic maybe 1/8"? Engrave 300x22 Cut 30x80
Engrave not very distinctive. Cut did not work-did two more …
read moreIn the Global Connections lab at NASA Ames research center we used these yellow shelf bins.
And I adopted that as my personal standard.
But not everyone likes them. Christine rightly points out that it is basically impossible to keep them clean.
My friend Tom Yoder made these great shop …
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6/25/2024 $1,000 Cash for the laser 7/14/2024 $92.94 Mendo Mill Electric and distilled water 7/14/2024 $33.66 Amazon Power splitter and outlet cover
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I went to the lodge to keep Sweetie company, and things went late, but we got home and I went back to the shop. And I fiddled and faddled and I had success!
The first hole cut by the laser...by pushing 'laser' on the control pad.
First …
read moreToday was moving day, and how much excitement!
The Laser Cutter album on Google Photos
Loving garage seeks laser cutter, 220 power, compressed air, ventilation, and lots of loving use will be provided!
We have a birdhouse builder in the Keys. His yard is whimsical.
Eryck Lee, Laser (center), and …
read moreMakerstock Baltic Birch hardwood, and other materials
Pololu Parts and good stuff, especially Universal mounting hubs
I got a splitter for the dryer outlet, so I can use the same outlet for the laser and the dryer. I can probably use them both at the same time. That outlet is provisioned for a lot of power!
I made my 220 to normal outlet pigtail, because the …
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Sunday July 14, 2024
The laser, chiller, and air compresser or 220 but use standard 110 sockets
Laser 220 1.5kw, ~7 amps Chiller 220 Air Compresser 220
I think that the laser, the chiller, and the air compressor each use NEMA 6-20p 20 …
read moreThe laser uses LaserCut 5.3 and a plugin to Corel Draw.
Probably has the Leetro MPC6515 controller
read moredone - Figure out power done - focus/tune? done - Start up checklist done - Maintenance Schedule done - Other resources...
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It's footprint is 54" x 67"
On June 23rd there was a facebook post. An 80 watt 4' x 3' laser cutter. I jumped on that!
It is probably 'only' 1200 mm x 900 mm, which pedanticism only matters when one has 4x8 foot sheet goods and can't cut the …
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^W f opens file in split window. yayish. - should follow a file, doesn't work for me, does bring up a screen :h gf
I blame Robert Kaye :-)
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I live on Clear Lake, and watching the level rise and fall is one of my minor obsessions.
Clear Lake has a special way of measuring the height of the Lake. It uses the 'Rumsey Scale.' There are some nuances, but pretty much a guy named Rumsey put a stick …
read moreI have Gen2+ devices.
control.shelly.cloud rich.gibson@gmail.com Tp8NPQ!t86qQjD4
Connect to the plug …
read moreI had a new external drive, and there was so so much activity.
sudo lsof | grep /Volumes/bigeneration
And it was spotlight.
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Rob created a 5000x5000 pixel image using album covers from 2023 to recreate the Darkside of the Moon album cover. I tiled it:
gdal2tiles.py -t "2023 Albums as Darkside of the Moon" -p raster -s EPSG:3857 darkside.png tiles
I am trying to get this to serve within …
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Python (since 2007), Django, Flask, PostGIS, BigQuery, QGIS, GDAL, Unfolded/Foursquare Studio.
Spatial and large data sets, Precisely, Lightbox, Ookla, ACS/Census, etc.
Experienced filing and …
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I searched google images for 'breakfast,' and for 'Frühstuck' and was not surprised that I got different results.
There was a question 'post pictures of three fictional characters which you identify with.'
I could do far worse than this...
Showing counties by their date of formation. In a few cases I used 'settled' dates. For San Francisco I used the date of the establishment of the Mission. The data is from Wikipedia. I grabbed the list of counties, then grabbed the wikipedia page for each county and pulled out …
Reading Wikipedia I came on this page List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures And so I made a map of those counties.
I plan to make the source data available, at some point, but let me know if you would like it sooner.
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read moreI make maps, and create multi-image high resolution images at different scales. From sub micron resolution to 300 megapixel portraits of people, to five gigapixel views of Burning Man...and more.
I am available for various things, maps, Gigapan and Portrait photography, events, archival work, and Django/Python programming. Please …
read moreThis is a laser cut grating or grill cover. The holes are 1/2". This is a walnut veneer over an MDF core.
Ed then suggested that I make smaller versions suitable for model boats, and he took them to the model boat club where several were snapped up by …
read moreApparently I wrote this in 2016.
The controls on the right side allow you to configure details about the different objects to be cut and engraved, and also allow you to control the laser directly.
The Layer Section gives you options for each 'layer' in your project. Layers …
read moreHere are some of the high resolution genital portraits referred to in the essay on
It seems like it should go without saying, but these are in fact explicit, although mostly somewhat 'clinical' images.
read moreFor Arse Elektronika in 2010 I took multi-image high resolution genital portraits. The following essay is in the 'proceedings' of the conference, published in the RESEARCH book Screw the System.
Personal Portraits of Australia
Most of us know about as much about the anatomy of our own genitals· as we …
read moreI ordered nifty postcards from . About $15 for 50, they will be a bit cheaper for larger quantities.
50 mm lens on the fully extended bellows.Lens set to f8.Single stack, 16 images in the stack.Approx 659 pixels per mm. Each pixel is about 0.7 nm.[caption id="attachment_15647" align="alignleft" width="300"]
Fully extended bellows with a 50 mm lens. About 8mm field of …
Wide-band (6GHz) transimpedance amplifier.
This is one chip on a carrier of about 100 chips. The chip shown is approximately 0.4mm x 0.6mm
The original image is 3942x3336 pixels. This implies a scale of about 6.5 pixels per micron. The actual resolution of the image is lower …
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read moreTalked with Dave Dempsey, maybe at New Point
What do I do? A class? a Book? Web? Manifesto?
about the power of multi image photography
-Design fiction 'enhance'
ubiquity, street view, vs. POV/intentionality
"Make it 50 pages" Dave Dempsey
Collect my various talks and writings, throw it all together …
read moreA lossy compression of humanity...
In 2011, 2014, and 2015 I took portraits in Quartier 21 of the Museumsquartier in Vienna. Here are some of those images.
Albrecht Dürer said that the portrait preserves the form of the person after death. It is an art which confronts and tries to …
read moreA lossy compression of humanity...In 2011, 2014, and 2015 I took portraits in Quartier 21 of the Museumsquartier in Vienna. Here are some of those images.Albrecht Dürer said that the portrait preserves the form of the person after death. It is an art From 2011:Landscapes of humanity …
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Looking at this painting "Portrait of a Young Man, 1507" by Albrecht Dürer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum I suddenly noticed the eyes.
The light in the eyes of the paintings, a tiny study of reflection, of light sources in the eyes of the subjects...
It made me think. And then …
read moreI used to sit, or stand, in Vienna and notice things things that happened, or didn't happen, while I waited for the Gigapan robot to finish.
Now, mostly, I sit and notice things and I don't wait for a robot to let me know when I am done noticing things …
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The Gigapan process involves taking multiple overlapping pictures and then processing them together to create one large high resolution image.
I have a page showing all of my Gigapan images currently on the Gigapan.com site.
(I wrote a bit of Python/Django code to connect with the Gigapan …
read moreAging street punk sits on the sidewalk on a grate, on his jacket or a dirty rag.
Hard to tell. I've seen him before most days
Familiar stranger, more stranger than familiar
He's playing with a rat. He smiles at the rat.
The rat walks up and down his arms …
read moreAging street punk sits on the sidewalk on a grate, on his jacket or a dirty rag.
Hard to tell. I've seen him before most days
Familiar stranger, more stranger than familiar
He's playing with a rat. He smiles at the rat.
The rat walks up and down his arms …
read moreI used to sit, or stand, in Vienna and notice things things that happened, or didn't happen, while I waited for the Gigapan robot to finish.
Now, mostly, I sit and notice things and I don't wait for a robot to let me know when I am done noticing things …
read moreAging street punk sits on the sidewalk on a grate, on his jacket or a dirty rag.
Hard to tell. I've seen him before most days
Familiar stranger, more stranger than familiar
He's playing with a rat. He smiles at the rat.
The rat walks up and down his arms …
read moreIn 2011, 2014, and 2015 I took portraits in Quartier 21 of the Museumsquartier in Vienna. Here are some of those images.
From 2011:
Landscapes of humanity, of sexuality: The act of portraiture is constructed as a process of abstracting away from reality to create an image. An image for …
read moreFor a while I used Google Sites to try and manage something like a lab notebook of my experiments. Here it is.
read moreWhen I take portraits I sometimes forget to keep track of where I am starting...
I can make several attempts, starting over at the eyes, or chin, or wherever. So looking at the resulting images is just a jumble!
Can I use focus distance to group the results?
Answer: Maybe …
read moreMy personal notes on Wordpress
-hide feature image on posts
font: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/raleway
To post gigapans Take a snapshot. try for squarish in preview make it 600 pixels wide. create a gallery if needed upload image to the gallery add the link to the gigapan
note …
read moreArcimboldo's works Flora and Flora meretrix are on display at the Kunsthistorisches museum, so I have been experimenting with hand help multi image captures.
Here is an article about the exhibit in Vienna.
Here is an interesting article about the works, and their frames. [caption id="attachment_15452" align="alignleft" width …
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Each year NASA sends groups of teams to the Desert to test equipment and techniques which may be useful for extraterrestrial exploration. In April 2010 I got to go to the San Francisco Volcanic field to take Gigapan photos of potential exploration sites for that summer's DRATS tests. It …
read moreEach year NASA sends groups of teams to the Desert to test equipment and techniques which may be useful for extraterrestrial exploration. In April 2010 I got to go to the San …
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https://www.facebook.com/gigapanner I am Rich Gibson. My goal is to make the world better by changing the way you see.
I create multi-image hi resolution images at different scales. From sub micron resolution to 300 megapixel …
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read moreThe Kunsthistorisches is awesome! I have been experimenting with doing handheld multi-image panorama captures of paintings. Some of the results please me...
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Flora and Flora Meretrix are on temporary display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.[/caption]
I create multi-image hi resolution images at different scales. From sub micron resolution to 300 megapixel portraits of people, and more.
I also write software (my GitHub account), fabricate equipment, including a CNC controlled microscope, once wrote books (Mapping Hacks and Google Maps Hacks), and passionately evangelize for the technologies …
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