To ring in the new year, and celebrate the ten year anniversary of my previous build, I decided to build a new PC. Back in 2007, it was two years before we even started playing with lasers. This time around, I knew for sure I'd be laser engraving some piece or another. I've engraved a … Continue reading 117: PC Case Engraving
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
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
You remember shrinky-dinks, right? I spent a good handful of childhood afternoons trying to cook little plastic cartoon characters alive. As it turns out, they've had this shrink plastic material as letter sized sheets perfect for inkjet printing for years now! Jen picked some up on a recent trip to the craft store and this week, … Continue reading 87: Shrink Plastic
