I've been playing a lot lately with a new toy I picked up from Inventables: a powered LED strip for edge lighting acrylic. It's made in particular to work in tandem with specially made acrylics that transmit light efficiently, but I've found it works really well with simpler transparent and fluorescent acrylics. My first test … Continue reading 109: Edge-Lit Acrylic
A few months ago, my friend Arty got in touch with me and said he had "some thick acrylic" left over from a recent storefront revamp at a mobile phone store. Not really knowing what I was getting into, I said "hey any scrap material that I can laser is good with me!" Much more … Continue reading 107: Thick Acrylic
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
As part of a custom order of Ingress badges, I recently had a chance to revisit kiss cutting. I'd played with the process a few times before but not on 52lasers projects. Kiss Cutting is one of the most popular methods for creating pressure-sensitive labels. During the kiss-cutting process, the perimeter of each label is … Continue reading 85: Sticker Sheets
