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
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26: Sublimated Layers
Most of the projects I've worked on so far for 52 Lasers have been put together using the laser system only. This is pretty reasonable: it's the only serious hardware we've got at our home studio! But I've got access to quite a few other kinds of machines thanks to the the awesome folks at … Continue reading 26: Sublimated Layers
Misaligned Lasers
So, this is a mistake that will forever make me smile. The missing collar stay alluded to in Week 23: Personalized Collar Stays is permanently etched into the laser ruler thanks to a misalignment the honeycomb bed. The bed, which allows better airflow when cutting, wasn't sitting all the way back when we started this … Continue reading Misaligned Lasers
22: Hylian Inlay
"I think you picked the most ambitious first time trying to inlay project ever," wrote Jen, fairly certain that I'd bitten off more than I could chew. While I could already tell by then that l I was in for a lot of delicate work, I reassured her of my expert mastication and went back … Continue reading 22: Hylian Inlay