Project 2 (a)

 Starting above is the finished product.. below i go about explaining  the process of getting the board into the laser cutter then into my ondulating shape.






So i started this laser cutter project with an image file and was going to have fun burning an image of my face into it, till i decided maybe it would be fun to do something TRULY artistic with this laser cuter!
This was just a playful shape i came up with to start messing around with the program and figure out exactly how i was going to do this project.

*Started with a planar Surface undulating in craziness..

*So then I used the contour tool that will contour the shape i made into as many 'slices as i want'








*Easy Offset tool to the thickness i want, then i 'loft' the two lines into the hundreds of intersecting planes you see now








*A closer view of one of the curves allows me to find the intersecting point, plot it, draw out the dimension of Face B (hidden in image) in an attempt to notch away







*The Final product shown here now gives me the actual shapes i need with the proper cut away in order to lock these faces into place. it is a matter of separating all of the faces, laying them flat, number them, and laser cut.

Project 1 Final

 Batteries Final
     So the conclusion of the casting assignment came out to be a hanger. I ended up casting and hanging over 75 ipods, 9V, AA, and AAA batteries with stripped out copper wiring. you can see from the images that i did a sort of wrapping of the batteries for a cool look. I hung them all and entertwined them making a complete mess of things.
     The idea was to look at the plaster batteries and sence a coldness and almost death of the suggested energy and ipods. Ipod being an instantly recognizable object in my model i wish i would have done a lot more or a lot less. Because i introduced the ipod however it felt as though i needed to introduce more gizmos and gadgets to really complete the piece. I did however like the way i portrayed a sort of dependence between the batteries and the ipod and felt like i was successful in conveying that concept.

Signing out Project 1