April 2011
6 posts
Easter Hacking - Chocolate and Eggs!
We had some themed hacking happening on Saturday in the space. Bec was making a dozen decorated eggs on the space’s EggBot, and we also had some experimental chocolate casting to complete the calorific nature of the holiday.
Her design is up here, for anyone that’s interested:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7986
If you haven’t seen the EggBot in action, it’s quite a...
Yuri's Night Followup
On Tuesday we had our Yuri’s Night party, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of humans in space.
http://yurisnight.net/
We had a special screening of the Yuri’s night documentary, which included footage shot from the International Space Station, synchronised to Yuri’s flight with the original radio messages.
Special thanks to George Georgevits from UNSW, who gave us an...
We're living in the future now, people! Or, 3D...
I went to an interesting meetup on Monday night, hosted by the Shapeways company.
(The meetup happened in the pub, so please excuse the poor quality photos and my uncanny ability to snap a shot mid-blink)
For those that haven’t seen, Shapeways is a provider of 3D printing to the masses. You can upload a design, get a quote immediately and have it printed and delivered in a few days. So...
Progress on lasercutter, and EggBot now working
Hi All, Gav here.
So it’s been a busy week. We’ve now got some stock of acrylic ready for the lasercutter, in various sizes, thicknesses and colours:
and I also spent an informative quarter of an hour behind the counter at the local plastics place, grabbing and labelling one of each of the stock samples. These should come in handy for people to see what’s available to...
Mission Accomplished! Lasers for All!
Well, that took an amazingly short amount of time!
We’re now funded for getting a laseructter and some sample stock.
Thanks heaps to Jeremy, Vorn, Brendan, Max, Rebecca, David, Mitchell, Macca, Jason, Kean, Shig, Tristan, Adriaan & Chris B for their pledges!.
Pew! Pew!! - Ok, Let's get a lasercutter!
Ok, so it’s high time we did this. Lets’s get a lasercutter!
What can you do with a lasercutter? You can make awesome things like this:
(Pic from here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6662) this: http://www.thingiverse.com/image:22497 and this: http://www.thingiverse.com/derivative:1475
I’ve gotten a few quotes on lasercutters and talked to some suppliers and this stands...
