One of the projects I've been working on this week involves some pieces of wood that are far bigger than my laser bed allows. While I'm not finished with the project yet, I thought I'd take a moment to talk about the front door on my VLS 4.60 laser and a fairly simple trick to … Continue reading 98: Breaking the Interlock
As I've written about before, even when there's not much creativity involved, the laser platform allows for all sorts of functional usefulness. In this case, local friend Brenn once again provides a fun project: replacing a lost wire shelf in his mini fridge. We measured the space and cut a prototype out of cardboard. It's a … Continue reading 97: Utilitarian Fridge Shelf
This week, at Jennifer's suggestion, I took a look into creating lens filters for my camera that would allow us to create custom-shaped highlights in bokeh photography. Firing the laser at some simple black cardstock, I carved a 2" diameter circle with some tabs to mount it to the zoom lens enclosure on my camera. In the … Continue reading 91: Bokeh Filters
I've talked about this particular kind of laserable magnet before, but for this week's project, I took the same magnet material and determined whether I could use it as a replacement for the strip of magnet material I normally use for my set of dialog boxes. I currently use a 1/2" strip magnet stored in rolls … Continue reading 89: More Laserable Magnet
