The fair comes to town
Saturday 29th will be a day of celebration of artisan making in Wellington with the last Craft2.0 fair for 2011 and a wonderful opportunity for early Christmas shopping. For the first time this popular fair will be held in central Wellington.
Kia ora! We’re hosting an early Christmas meetup at our New Zealand office. If you’ve never made anything with us before and are keen to learn all about how Ponoko works, then we’d love you to join us.
Wednesday November 2nd, 6.30pm – 8pm
Ponoko NZ Office
Level 1
27 Dixon Street
Wellington
RSVP
This is an opportunity for people in the Wellington region to have any questions you might have answered in person. We’ve asked some Wellington-based makers to come and talk about projects they’ve made with Ponoko Personal Factory, and they’ll bring along their finished designs to look at.
The theme for our November meetup will be ‘Holiday Making’ – decoration ideas for Christmas, as well as great ideas for Personal Factory-made presents for your friends and family. We’re holding it at the beginning of November, so that there’s time for you to create a design and place an order, all in time for Christmas.
You can check out our new material samples, and be inspired by a range of designs on display. If you want to bring along a flat material sample that you would like to have laser cut, e.g. a piece of silk fabric, and if we’re able to cut it, then we’ll give it a whirl. You’ll also be able to see the laser in operation, and watch as it works its magic on some custom-made Christmas decorations.
Places will be limited, so please RSVP if you’d like to come along .
Hope to see you there!
As the demand for custom goods continues to grow, Ponoko is expanding the ways in which anyone can make their own unique products.
With the Personal Factory platform, we have enabled designers, engineers, and hobbyists all over the world to create custom products. Over 100,000 customer designed products have been made so far, everything from 3D printed jewelry to laser-cut clocks to CNC routed furniture. But we believe that the power of making your own stuff shouldn’t be limited to those with advanced skills in computer-aided-design.
Our solution to bridging the gap between creative people everywhere and the power to make (almost) anything is the Personal Factory App Gateway.
October 28 & 29 in Wellington, NZ
Designers, developers, and Adobe devotees are getting together this week for Adobe Creative Camp NZ.
This multi-track event is being held in Wellington at the Natcoil Design School (host of last year’s Flash Platform Camp) on October 28 and 29th.
Session topics range from awesomely useful how-tos on specific softwares (Acrobat, Fireworks, Flash, Flex, Lightroom, InDesign and more) to mobile app development to the fine art of how best to use a typeface.
If you’re a NZ designer, developer, or Adobe lover, don’t miss this event. Tickets are super reasonable (NZ $29 full price / NZ $15 students)! Register here.
Click here for the full agenda.
P.S. There are also 2 in-depth workshops. InDesign CS 5.5 – Beyond Print! and Enlightenment – a Zen Agile workshop.
Windsurfing aficionado and tinkerer Sergey Menshikov shares his durable windsurfing camera mount.
The beefy, waterproof GoPro camera has become a big item with adventurers, explorers, sportsters, and hackers alike. With its tiny price and tiny size, it’s perfect for delving into places you wouldn’t normally risk an expensive DSLR.
Sergey Menshikov, an avid windsurfer, came up with a clever way to record his windsurfing sessions handsfree using a 3d printed mount to tie his camera to his board’s mast. It’s made of a few pieces of printed nylon bolted together with common fasteners. Check out some video taken from the rig.
You get more detail about the project on his site http://trickcam.com/. He also has an entire series of mounts and devices for the GoPro here.
via Shapeways.
The Laser Cutter Roundup — a weekly dose of laser-cut love: #51
Hey, Sam here. I’m back collecting this week’s posts from The Laser Cutter.
This week was kind of light again due to midterms (I was up for 36+ hours at one point), but I have some cool things to show you.
Above is Dululu Space Mobile laser cut by Umake.
After the jump, some art, some Halloween fun, a box, and a map… (more…)
Gorgeous vintage device pops up on Etsy
There’s no Arduino board inside, no laser-cutting or CNC machined components, and it certainly does not print in 3d.
However, this 1950s Keaton Music Typewriter has much to admire. The original version was patented by San Francisco inventor Robert H. Keaton in 1936, and further refinement saw units like the one featured here hit the market in the 1950s.
Some say there are now fewer than a dozen known Keaton Typewriters in existance. Seeing this makes me wonder what other specialised technical devices are floating about. These contraptions have value not only as interesting techno-nostalgia, but they can also provide insights and inspiration for the growing numbers of DIY tinkerers making their own CNC and 3d printing machines.
Keaton Music Typewriter via Monogocoro
A simple technique for making your laser engraving stand out
This week I finished a project I’ve been developing for a while: the Rich Decibels Exenterator. Sound samples and technical details and so on are available on my blog but for this post I just wanted to demonstrate my engraving-filling technique. For me it is the ideal way to add labels to my DIY electronics gadgets.
Check out the full step-by-step tutorial on the forum.
A new lab to showcase open source 3D printing.
The Digital Manufacturing Lab recently opened as part of the Bath Ventures Innovation Centre at the University of Bath, England. The purpose of the lab is to showcase the potential of 3D printing with the RepRap for developing new product ideas.
One thing that distinguishes this initiative from others is the focus on using the RepRap technology for business. 3D printing tends to be divided into high-end printers for large companies and cheaper open-source printers for personal use. This project is somewhere in the middle.
Update: If you are interested in using this facility or in RepRap technology in general, the Lab is hosting their first networking event on November 1st.
The best time of year to be a maker
We’ve already covered some scary stuff this month, with posts about Personal Factory Projects for Halloween, the 123D Halloween Challenge, and the Crania Anatomica Filigre KickStarter project.
But with my favourite horror film festival about to start I’m in the mood to wring a little more out of the subject by having a look at some recent ghoulish additions to Thingiverse:
Halloween fridge magnets
These designs by David Shaw (aka daviddotshaw) have a recessed hole in the back to hold a 10mm magnet, and are small enough to print a few of them at once.
Download from Thingiverse: Ghost, Bat, Pumpkin
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