Tech Research
Research Proposals
Past Research
Over the past 4-5 years, I’ve conducted research into CNC fabrication, application scripting, rapid prototyping, 3D scanning & modeling and video game modification, among other things. Some of this research comes from art projects involving the techniques above, some from more seriously focused academic projects. For now, the bulk of my peripheral technotes are hosted at rainbowlazer.com, while a more formal CNC research project is hosted at diylilcnc.org. Additional writings involving applications specific to printing, laser cutting and digital output services available at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are published on the Axis of Output blog. Below are some recent blog posts:
Open Source CNC Toolpathing Workflow @rainbowlazer.com
An overview of free & open-source toolpathing for the DIYLILCNC. Turn a raster image into a G-Code engraving pattern with GIMP, Inkscape, Pycam and EMC2 in Ubuntu.
Something for Nothing: Rube Goldberg on Impossibility of Perpetual Motion/Feasibility of Endless Petroleum @rainbowlazer.com
Archive.org [host of the mind-blowing Prelinger Archives] brings you this little gem, featuring amazing live-action illustration and animation from Rube Goldberg himself. Mr. Goldberg touches on the nuances of the U.S Patent Office and goes on to explain the impossibility of designing a perpetual motion machine. In the second half of the the film, an assuring [...]
Show BBpress Topic Tags from Inside Wordpress @rainbowlazer.com
I’ve been hosting a forum at http://diylilcnc.org using Wordpress and BBrpess integration, so that Wordpress and BBpress share user accounts. This is great for the most part; one drawback is that while you can use some of the Wordpress functions inside BBpress, you can’t go the other way and call BBpress functions from inside Wordpress. For [...]
