Above is an example of varying speed settings with vector cuts and engravings on a 120W Co2 laser cutter. The ratios of power to speed are roughly the same on both groups of cuts, producing approximately the same depth; however one speed setting is much higher (30x) than the other, producing the wobbly lines on the fast group. The faster setting was enough to cause the laser’s Y axis to lose registration, as you can see on the two bottom lines of text.
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The final product should look something like this
This tutorial is based on toxiclab’s webcam tutorial. I tried to be a little more explicit as this is intended for beginners.
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In an hilarious attempt to make things look more complicated than they actually are, the makers of the Eye Clops–an analog video magnifier device–have included two ‘printed’ circuit boards in their product: one is an actual, functional board; the other is a printed sticker with an image of circuitry.
The toy itself is quite cool, but I can’t help laughing when I imagine the development meeting where someone proposed adding fake circuitry. And interestingly enough it’s difficult to notice. I didn’t figure it out until a friend took the outer casing off.
Felt is an extremely versatile material. It’s non-woven, which means it has no warp, no weft, and no bias; it doesn’t unravel, which makes it an ideal material for intricate garments. However, because it is thick and relatively unforgiving, cutting intricate patterns and structures into felt is difficult to do by hand. Precise cutting is usually done by means of an industrial die cutter, which is costly when producing things in small quantities.
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This is a Javascript filter for Photoshop CS2 that takes an image and vertically stretches each line of pixels into one whole frame. It generates a series of images that, when used as video frames, create long vertical pan (slit scan) down the image.
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