Google recently unveiled their own humorous take on the recent virtual reality push by folks like Oculus Rift and Sony with their Morpheus project: Cardboard. It's a simple housing, built from cardboard or similar cheap material, which uses a pair of small lenses coupled with an Android smartphone to display a rudimentary virtual reality view. … Continue reading 33: Google Cardboard
I find particular amusement that 52 Lasers is considered a "stunt blog." Stunt blogs have a goal to meet in a certain period of time. An excellent example of a stunt blog that has helped the world is The Uniform Project, where the author wears the same uniform every day for a year. Another good … Continue reading 32: Laser Engraved Beads
I love the term "exhaust blower." It's not a flowery name, nor a detailed technical description. It's blunt. My exhaust blower, a DC-3XL, blows exhaust, and that's all it does. It does it well, too, and that's excellent because you cannot run a laser system without the airflow taking your laser-obliterated material out of your … Continue reading 31: Exhaust Blower
Once in a while I come across a job where I've got a handful of pre-cut shapes and I've got to etch a design onto them. This can be tricky for any number of reasons, but the issue I run into most often getting the alignment between the etch and the shape it'll be on just … Continue reading 30: Tokens & Templates
