The deadline for applying for SSBxFab’s Fellow program has been extended to February 15th, 2008 (5 pm).

Application can be downloaded here

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Our lab has been up and running for a few weeks now, and given that it’s winter, we had kids and adults cut out paper snowflakes, which were scanned, vectorized, then cut out of wood and plastic. It proved to be a useful demonstration of desktop manufacturing/digital fabrication, and accessible to any age group, or level computer literacy.

In a Daycare center in the South Bronx called Eva’s Kids, Dolge demonstrates how to fold the paper and cut patterns.

Afterwards we scanned the snowflakes (with a blue paper backing for contrast), performed edge detection, and then converted the pixel based image to a scalable vector graphics image. This can be done with proprietary software, like Adobe Illustrator, or the open-source vector graphics program, Inkscape.

Once in vector format, the image can be sent to the laser cutter. The Epilog laser cutter reads any .001 stroke line as a vector, and anything thicker as something to be rastered. Here we do a vector cut out of thin wood.

Children at Eva’s day care center with their laser cut snowflakes.

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