I have got to get my hands on one of these. The Egg Bot is an art robot. More precisely, an incredibly clever printer, only instead of printing on flat paper, it prints on round things. Eggs, Christmas ornaments, golf balls, and my particular favorite, light bulbs.
Image from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
The designs it’s capable of creating are so cool. With light bulbs like these, who needs a lamp shade?
A cool video demo on Martha Stewart.
If you need to ever get me a gift (not that I’m asking anyone for presents here), you can’t go wrong with a clamp. A clamp is my equivalent of getting a 10-year-old a Storm Trooper. It’ll never be the sexiest present, but you can always use another one.
I just got myself a new 1″ Packard Round Nose Scraper. I got to use a chisel just like this at MAD and fell in love.
I’m such a lathe nerd.
Yesterday’s lathe demo at MAD was incredible, what a place. It was so interesting to meet all the museum staff and visitors. Sorry to all of the people who can’t speak English that I had full conversations with before realizing that you didn’t understand a word I said. In the first two pictures below, you can see Columbus (from “Circle” fame) in the window.
Thanks to everybody who made it out, I had a blast and hope you did too. I also got to use my favorite Simpsons line on the viewers, “I want to see goggles people!”
I’ve been making wooden mallets lately. Mostly out of oak, mostly for food preparation (meat tenderizing, etc). I just like making them. Maybe designer mallets will be the new designer axes (I have no idea why, but I just want one of those axes real bad).
My sisters got me a branding iron for Christmas. They had to order it special, and it took some time to get here. But it just came in the mail the other day.
This thing is so choice, if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
A lathe chisel canvas roll-up carrying case (say that five times). She took an old canvas tote bag and turned it into this.
Thanks mom.
Last night I went to the littleBits launch party at Eyebeam. littleBits is an open source project that is trying “to end the mysticism around engineering and electronics, to counter the black box product ideology of consumer electronics, and to fuel an explosion of creativity and innovation in artists, designers, kids and hobbyists. The release of littleBits Version 1 on April 30, 2009, will be unique in that it is a growing library of circuit boards preassembled by tiny magnets—the first of its kind. littleBits requires absolutely no programming, no prior knowledge and no hardware or software set-up. Just snap and play!”
This video might explain it a little more clearly.
littleBits intro from ayah bdeir on Vimeo.
The stuff is great and I can’t wait to get my hands on some. I could’ve really used it on some of the props I’ve worked on in the past (here and here). The party was held at Eyebeam. “Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation.” It’s in a very cool space in Chelsea.
Sorry for the bad pictures. In my defense, I’m a horrible photographer.
I recently got this table mounted wire bender to make the Mobile Home wires a bit more polished.
The tool is designed to make fly fishing lures, but it works pretty well for mobile wires too.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to change out all of the artwork on my walls. That involves a lot of framing and cutting new mats. A mat makes such a big difference to a picture. And a mat cutter is totally worth it.
