Back when we first started 52 Lasers, Jennifer and I sought to create an outlet for more creative endeavors with our laser cutter. We'd owned and operated a laser cutter for home business purposes since early 2011, but we weren't really getting around to some of the more creative ideas we had that didn't have … Continue reading 104 Lasers
This week I had a challenge that I've been dreading for a while now: recreating a greyscale image on a wood surface. While engraving a black and white design results in impressive, high-contrast finished pieces, any images with a wide variety of values can end up looking muddy if you don't properly determine how the … Continue reading 103: Halftoning Wood
Back in June, the Aurora Public Library finished and opened their new Santori building. The most personally exciting addition to the library within the new building is a public makerspace, with plenty of gadgets for making things (and some just for playing around) that I knew I'd want to spend some time with. In November, … Continue reading 102: Aurora Public Library’s Makerspace
A few months ago, Jennifer had me order some unusually thin 1/32" transparent acrylic to try out some kind of "phone hologram" trick she read about on the Internet. The material arrived in a shipment of a whole bunch of other inventory and was mostly forgotten, until just last week Eagle Engraving's resident laser ninja Monica … Continue reading 100: Pyramid Holograms
