April 2010
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A project for artist Charles Atlas (Not the bodybuilder) Here a magnet is being held to a copper wire leading to the lamp. It vibrates and sticks to the magnet as the lamp brightens and dims. Electromagnetism!! Whoo! It’s a programmable dimmer for a very high current, low voltage lamp. It’s controlled through an Arduino, driving a stack of power MOSFETs (A kind of transistor) with a...
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CNC plasma cutter running at the shop. It’s cutting out an LCD bezel from 16 gauge steel sheet, 40 amps, 150 Inches per minute feed rate. The gantry was made by “Practical CNC” and like all their products, is COMPLETE GARBAGE. They’re out of business now, and it it weren’t for all our ingenuity and hard work in repairing it, this machine would have been reduced...
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Going UP! Robotic iPhone controlled lifting platform shoes, made on the CNC mill for Adi Marom.
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This is a video shot at 30 FPS and 60 IPM of movement by attaching the camera to the head of the CNC router. The object is a turned audio waveform by artist RoseMarie Padovano. I did this in order to get a paralax-free scan of the object so we can re-construct it out of aluminum. Should be cool.
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