Over on Instagram, Chris Hall demonstrates drawing on a lab coat with AxiDraw for his costume:
AxiDraw and TouchDesigner
We’ve noticed a few artists on twitter and instagram using TouchDesigner as a tool in their workflow toward creating output with AxiDraw.
#TouchDesigner #AxiDraw Combination of two patterns pic.twitter.com/VAt9lgog1d
— David Braun (@DoItRealTime) October 4, 2017
David Braun has been posting beautiful, and sometimes mindbending artwork on twitter.
the soundwaves of 2 ppl saying "I Love You", the scene is in #TouchDesigner then sent to the #AxiDraw #generative ✨ pic.twitter.com/dWDrf2G67p
— Chris Hall (@PatchyProjects) June 30, 2017
Chris Hall posted this piece using sound waves to create scenes.
Noah Norman has been posting geometric plotting videos.
Matthew Ragan has been taking advantage AxiDraw’s ability to draw on just about anything, and plotting over already printed materials. He also has published his tools on github for getting vectors out of TouchDesign. He describes it as:
A pipeline for handling the SOP to SVG pipeline. This is especially handy for using procedurally generated geometry for paths to be cut or plotted.
We’ve added a link to his repository on the AxiDraw documentation wiki. We love it when folks share their tools and would love to hear what tools and processes people are using or creating for working with our plotters.
Lady Ada Lovelace Day 2017
For Lady Ada Day, we like to highlight some of the women we know who are doing amazing work in that group of fields bundled into the term STEAM. Here are a few:
- Leah Buechley, making algorithmic art
- Katherine Scott, working with Planet Labs and the Open Hardware Summit
- Charlene McBride, making art and working at Amazon
- Vanessa Julia Carpenter, designing for meaningfulness
- Anouk Wipprecht, rethinking fashion
- Sophi Kravitz, making art and working with Hackaday
- AnnMarie Thomas, bringing together engineering, education and play
Please join us today in celebrating the women in your lives who are building the world into something better, whether through science, technology, engineering, art or mathematics.
Another CNC workstation mod
Murray C. wrote in to share about using our CNC workstation cart plans to build his own. He added a keyboard tray in place of one of the drawers. Thanks for sharing your photo, Murray, it looks great!
Shopwarming Open House and Sale
You’re invited to our open house and shopwarming!
When: Saturday, October 7, 4 pm to 8 pm
Where: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
1285 Forgewood Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Our annual open house is also a shopwarming party this year! You can tour our new location, see the MOnSter 6502 in action, check out an AxiDraw demonstration, maybe meet Zener the cat (she’s not fond of parties), do some shopping if the mood strikes, and share in food and conversation.
We’re also having a sale, so you can celebrate with us whether or not you can make it to the event! During our sale this week (October 2-7), use checkout coupon code CELEBRATE to save 10% sitewide at our store.
With Halloween approaching, it’s a great time to stock up on Snap-O-Lantern kits, Larson Scanner kits for your Cylon (or Kraftwerk) costume, and Flickery Flame kits to put in your Jack-O-Lanterns. Or maybe you just need some candle flicker LEDs for that finishing touch on your costumes and props.
AxiDraw V3, our beloved pen plotter is also currently shipping from stock and 10% off (with that coupon code) during the sale.
East Bay Mini Maker Faire 2017
We are heading back to one of our favorite events, the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, October 22. We’ll be demonstrating AxiDraw. We hope to see you there!
Linkdump: September 2017
- Jenny Odell writes about the notorious “free watch”
- Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence
- Lens Rentals describes cameras and lenses they received damaged by the eclipse
- Scientific Books Of Yesteryear
- How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record
- The computer that made the CGI in Star Wars (with video)
- African cheetah enjoys grooming session from angry meerkat (YouTube)
- Download and 3D Print: Cassini spacecraft
- A LaTeX package for drawing ducks
- Comet turns out to be a binary asteroid
- Compound Camera: An inflatable compound-eye camera obscura
- Camera Movement in the silent film Wings (1927)
Cool Tools Diamond File Video
Cool Tools did a quick video review of the diamond file I recommended when I was on the podcast. I still carry it in my bag all the time and use it regularly.
Maker Faire New York 2017 Highlights
Maker Faire New York was wonderful, the MOnSter 6502 got an editor’s choice ribbon, and we took a few pictures that give a taste of the faire.
In perhaps the most perfect Maker Faire spirit, the Fixers Collective brought broken things for people to fix. Broken 3D printer, anyone?
Sam Zeloof brought examples of his homemade integrated circuits along with documentation of his processes. He even made a small demo vacuum chamber to bring to the faire since the one he made and uses at home was heavier than he wanted to lug to the faire.
This great display project by Taezoo Park in front of the great hall utilized vintage portable televisions.
There are more photos up in our flickr album and there were many more wonderful things we didn’t get pictures of.
AYAB v0.90 is here!
The All Yarns Are Beautiful project has just released a new version of the AYAB software, v0.90!
It’s a bugfix-release, that means it fixes mostly known issues and no additional features are introduced. This is necessary to get more stability in the software and to have solid foundation for future developments.
If you’re using our AYAB Interface, we’d encourage you to upgrade. If you want to contribute to this project that brings new life to old Brother knitting machines, head over to the announcement to read more.
