Tag: Subtraction

I really want to make some kind of lamp or other light fixture, but I wanted to do something simple for this first run on the big-boy CNC in the basement. (Plus I don’t have a whole of time between now and next Thursday where I can be on campus). First, I thought of just…… Continue reading Week 4 – Even MORE CNC-ing

For this other CNC project, I wanted to recreate and puzzle I had growing up, that consists of yellow and orange shapes and has a stack of cards with different images you can create using these seven different shapes, each shaping is used twice. I did some quick sketching to come up with measurements/proportions. Last…… Continue reading Week 3 – More CNC-ing

This week’s skill builder is to use the Othermill desktop CNC machine. Earlier this summer, I saw this really neat tiny portable watercolor set made of wood – link to the Etsy site. I drew up some layouts in Illustrator and exported them as two separate SVG files for the Bantam software. Going through all…… Continue reading Week 2 Skill Builder – Othermill

For this first week of subtraction, our ‘skill builder’ exercise was to use the router. I wanted to try and make a simple channel through a block of wood, which I used the table router to cut it out. I learned to adjust the height of the route bit at a smaller increment, because a…… Continue reading Week 1 Skill Builder – Router