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CNC Spoil Board Art

From woodworker and ITP student Ben Light’s site:

A spoil board is sacrificial material that's used underneath the material you want to cut on a CNC machine. This ensures a better through cut and is usually MDF. I've noticed that when the spoil boards are all used up at ITP, some really amazing patterns are formed.

By making careful choices in his display of this found art, Ben really stumbled onto something beautiful that normally would have ended up in the dumpster. It would have been a shame to see this piece spoiled in such a way.





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Lego Star Wars Relativity


Paul Vermeesch’s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foot cube and contains scenes from classic Star Wars settings.

Six months in the making, I present my largest creation to date: a 1x1x1 foot model of M.C. Escher’s print “Relativity” reenacted in the Lego Star Wars theme. A far larger, cleaner, and more detailed rehashing of my 2010 version, this diorama is fully lit from the inside, presents the original Star Wars trilogy in a roughly counterclockwise format, and even features a minifig-scale theatre in the back which plays Lego’s CG version of the Star Wars saga. Enjoy!

[via The Brothers Brick]




Johngineer's "The Maker Movement"

Besides being a gifted engineer and writer, adafruit blogger John de Cristofaro is a talented photographer. Of this beautiful black-and-white “smoking iron” print, he writes:

This is an idea I've been kicking around for awhile — I've wanted to do a photograph which captured what I think of when I think of makers, and which makers themselves would enjoy as a work.

All of us started the same way — as curious kids (maybe big kids). At first, most of us were following in the path of someone else — along what feels like a straight, well-defined line. But there's a point where things start to diverge, and we go off and do our own thing. That's what making is all about, and that's what I tried to capture here.

He’s not selling them, yet, but gauging interest in a print run in this comments thread over at adafruit. The price, he says, “would be no more than $30/print and would include a custom matte,” with a portion of the proceeds going to charity.

“Symbolism aside,” he adds, “I just dig this image.”

So do I, John. Sign me up.

Art for the Maker Movement

More:
How-To: Take great photos of your projects





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Open Source Electronic Derailleur


Nabil Tewolde of Markham, ON, created an instructable on how to build your own electronic derailleur as part of his bike computer project. Code, BOM, and schematics on Github.




Lego Circuit Board

A newish build from Lego artist Bruce Lowell, who recently worked with adafruit to create the LadyAda’s Workshop project on Lego’s official set-idea crowdsourcing platform CUUSOO. It’s the little details I really like, here; especially the “socket header” on the back edge made by installing a regular 1×8 black brick in an unusual studs-down position.

LEGO Circuit Board | Flickr

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Lego syringe





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