Adam Sontag posted this great time lapse of using AxiDraw to draw the First X-Men cover in honor of Jack Kirby’s 100th Birthday.
to celebrate Jack Kirby’s 💯 bday, i reprinted my #axidraw vector version of the first #xmen comic and made a #timelapse! #JackKirby100 pic.twitter.com/HX3xUPOo6E
— adam j. sontag (@ajpiano) August 29, 2017
We are excited to be exhibiting the AxiDraw at the San Francisco International Pen Show this weekend, August 25-27 in Redwood City. We’ll look forward to seeing all of our pen aficionado friends there!
We’re in the process of moving into a nicer, bigger space, still in Sunnyvale, California. Our new shop location is 1285 Forgewood Avenue, and we’ll be closed on Monday, August 21 as part of the move.
We will be inviting you to our shopwarming party, which will be on October 7th, 4 pm – 8 pm, so please save the date!
Updated 9/30/17 to add time.
Vanessa Julia Carpenter from FabLabRUC did a workshop at FabCafe Tokyo with Kintsugi Artist Kurosawa using mended dishes as conductors in circuits.
The precious metals used to repair the dishes are used to trigger sound or light, encouraging the participants to connect with the dishes in interesting ways. There’s much more detail on this intersection of craft and electronics over in Vanessa’s post about the workshop.
We’re bringing the MOnSter 6502 to the Vintage Computer Festival this weekend, August 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
VCF West is for everyone! Computer geeks, families/children, students, collectors, IT professionals, curious onlookers…
Our friend Arjan van der Meij made this charming musical instrument from a signal generator, a servo motor, an Arduino and a processing program. He wrote an instructable for it so you can build one, too.
He also wrote about his experience with the project in Dutch on makered.nl. Projects like this one, that started with a question (“Why don’t you build a machine to do it?”) are great for learning new skills. I often get asked what things someone should get for learning electronics, and my answer is usually that the first thing you need is a project that you want to make so that you’ll have motivation to research what you’ll need.
Arjan wanted to learn tinkercad, and used this project toward that goal by modeling the knob adapter he’d need for connecting his servo to his signal generator knob. Even if you don’t want to make a musical instrument from a signal generator, this project may provide inspiration for trying out new techniques.
I wrote a tutorial on generating fractals with L-systems: https://t.co/BiBXgYHw59. Here's my AxiDraw plotting a tree. pic.twitter.com/JG3UkMZORz
— Paul Butler (@paulgb) July 9, 2017
Paul Butler wrote a tutorial on Fractal Generation with L-Systems and posted some example code with the output plotted by AxiDraw.
The tutorial is also available as a Jupyter notebook with runnable code.
