Bent Fest, Moral Combat, Gallery show, ReFunct
performance, Solid Sound festival, bam

post from Casper Electronics on 15 June 2011 08:02:18 PM. © Casper Electronics

Lots of stuff coming up in the next 2 weeks! Click Dates below for details, times, directions, etc… Friday June 18th. 3pm to 10pm. A day of workshops, food and performances curated by LoVid at the SilentBarn in Queens. Awesome workshops by Thu Tran (of the amazing show Food Party), live circuit building pioneers Loud [...]

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Gamer Wednesday: Old School Cross-stitch Sampler

post from Craftster.org Blog on 15 June 2011 07:33:27 PM. © Craftster.org Blog

Fuzzington made this awesome sampler for her local county fair. Apparently it caused a bit of a kerfuffle amongst the ladies taking the entries. I’d imagine they don’t see much 8-bit art come through! You can see the full thread here: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=381465.0

You can see more great crafts by viewing the video game tag.

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A Diamond Engraving Tool for Eggbot

post from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories on 15 June 2011 05:30:35 PM. © Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

What is it? It's a most useful little thing: a low-cost diamond engraving attachment for the Eggbot.

This turns a humble pen-plotting Eggbot into a full-on CNC-driven vibrated-tip diamond-point engraving tool, capable of light-duty marking and engraving on hard materials like glass, stone, and ceramic. Wooo!

The engraving tip itself is a small single-point industrial diamond, mounted on a thin steel shaft, in a fixture that holds it where the pen would normally be. That fixture consists of a 3/8-16 nylon thumb screw, drilled out to fit the steel shaft, and a matching 3/8-16 hex nut that locks it in place.

The place where the pen (or diamond fixture, in this case) mounts is at the end of the so-called "distal" pen arm. The distal pen arm is connected to the rest of the pen arm through a thin acetal flexure hinge that allows the "pen lift" servo motor to lift the pen off of the egg.

That flexure hinge that allows the diamond to move up and down also provides the necessary degree of freedom for our engraving motor to work.

There are any number of ways to engrave a hard surface. You could (for example) employ a rotating carbide burr, or move an otherwise stationary diamond point under pressure for "drag" engraving. The method that we use is to rapidly vibrate the diamond point up and down against the surface, like an angel dancing on the head of a pin-- that happens to have a tiny jackhammer.

The motor that provides that vibration is a high-RPM, 6 mm pager motor, attached tightly to the distal pen arm. The motor is controlled by a little transistor driver board that takes its power from the EBB, the Eggbot's controller board.

When plotting with a pen, it's usually preferable to let the pen lightly rest on the egg surface, so we use a fairly weak flexure hinge. But for engraving, it's often helpful to apply some downward pressure onto the glass or stone surface, so we actually found that a thicker, stiffer hinge is better. The stiffer hinge also improves accuracy of engraving, by reducing the amount of twist-type motion possible for the pen arm.

We've been working on developing this engraving technique for most of the last year. We demonstrated one of the early prototypes at Maker Faire Detroit-- where we engraved "MAKER FAIRE" into a painted-glass christmas ornament, lit from within.

This ornament-- silver inside, black paint outside --was engraved by original Eggbot inventor Bruce Shapiro, and shown off at Maker Faire NY.

This is a white marble (stone) sphere, surface engraved with the diamond tool. One of the issues with engraving glass ornaments is that they are really thin and can break. On a solid stone sphere, there's no such worry. And, as the material is softer, it engraves that much more readily.

We haven't begun to scratch the surface (groan allowed) of what the Eggbot Engraver tool can do. And, given everything else that people are doing with their Eggbots, we're genuinely excited to see what people do with these.

The Diamond Engraving Tool for Eggbot is available at our webstore, evilmadscience.com.

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Malm Coffee table

post from IKEA Hackers on 15 June 2011 04:34:36 PM. © IKEA Hackers

Materials: Malm storage unit

Description: It is a coffee table made from 3 Malm storage units and capita legs.

Assemble 3 Malm according to the IKEA instuctions

Put them upside down and attach them to each other using perforated metal plates along with the connecting sides. Use alot of screws

Put Capita legs in each corner...

Easy to hide magazines and papers. In one of the drawers there is a connection cord for laptop chargers. It is not recommended to charge laptops inside the table because of the heat.

~ Steffen Lassen, Norway

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Moogerfooger Cluster Flux: Flanger + Chorus +
Vibrato + LFO; Pricing and Availability Details

post from Create Digital Music on 15 June 2011 04:32:25 PM. © Create Digital Music

Moog Music has made official the launch of the Moogerfooger MF-108M Cluster Flux. Leaked specs went out yesterday. I was editing a book; hopefully you were doing something less work-like, such as sipping beers aside the beach with your iPhones completely powered down and stowed. But now that it’s official, we know full specifications on … Continue →

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Faux Finish A Heavy Textured Wall or Just Paint
It

post from THAT PainterLady.com on 15 June 2011 04:01:46 PM. © THAT PainterLady.com

So, simple enough question at first glance, right? What is the best type of faux finish to use when painting over a heavy swirled plaster wall ? A faux finish on a heavy texture requires different tools and also a different mindset for the results. If you decide to paint a faux finish on a [...]

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How to Draw a Labyrinth, Step by Step

post from How to of the Day on 15 June 2011 04:00:00 PM. © How to of the Day

Creating a labyrinth design is fun and it can be used for a puzzle, a logo, a wall picture, a book cover, and many other creative uses. This article explains the intricacies of drawing a labyrinth and provided you're patient, it's actually very easy to achieve and looks awesome.

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