We’re excited to be holding the Silicon Valley Hardware Meetup at our shop in Sunnyvale on Wednesday, December 6 from 6:30-9:30 pm. The event is hosted by Supplyframe and Tindie and will have food, drink, speakers and demo time. For full details and to RSVP, head to the event page.
Seamus B. sent in this picture of building Interactive Game of Life kits with kids. After they finished he sent in the video below of it working. We always love to see progress photos, especially when kids are getting into electronics and soldering.
Thank you, Seamus, for sending these in!
I also thought you might enjoy seeing the design we were running today in the classroom…
Spencer Yonker sent in these skull paintings made by WaterColorBot in the classroom.
And we had a customer stop in the shop to show off his red velvet skull, with added flickering LED eyes.
Thanks to both of you for sharing your Halloween spirit with us! And Happy Halloween!
Halloween is nearly here! Still need ideas? Head over to the Halloween Project Archives for a list of our projects over the years.
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and … we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.
We’ve noticed a few artists on twitter and instagram using TouchDesigner as a tool in their workflow toward creating output with AxiDraw.
#TouchDesigner #AxiDraw Combination of two patterns pic.twitter.com/VAt9lgog1d
— David Braun (@DoItRealTime) October 4, 2017
David Braun has been posting beautiful, and sometimes mindbending artwork on twitter.
the soundwaves of 2 ppl saying "I Love You", the scene is in #TouchDesigner then sent to the #AxiDraw #generative ✨ pic.twitter.com/dWDrf2G67p
— Chris Hall (@PatchyProjects) June 30, 2017
Chris Hall posted this piece using sound waves to create scenes.
Noah Norman has been posting geometric plotting videos.
Matthew Ragan has been taking advantage AxiDraw’s ability to draw on just about anything, and plotting over already printed materials. He also has published his tools on github for getting vectors out of TouchDesign. He describes it as:
A pipeline for handling the SOP to SVG pipeline. This is especially handy for using procedurally generated geometry for paths to be cut or plotted.
We’ve added a link to his repository on the AxiDraw documentation wiki. We love it when folks share their tools and would love to hear what tools and processes people are using or creating for working with our plotters.
For Lady Ada Day, we like to highlight some of the women we know who are doing amazing work in that group of fields bundled into the term STEAM. Here are a few:
Please join us today in celebrating the women in your lives who are building the world into something better, whether through science, technology, engineering, art or mathematics.
Murray C. wrote in to share about using our CNC workstation cart plans to build his own. He added a keyboard tray in place of one of the drawers. Thanks for sharing your photo, Murray, it looks great!
You’re invited to our open house and shopwarming!
When: Saturday, October 7, 4 pm to 8 pm
Where: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
1285 Forgewood Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Our annual open house is also a shopwarming party this year! You can tour our new location, see the MOnSter 6502 in action, check out an AxiDraw demonstration, maybe meet Zener the cat (she’s not fond of parties), do some shopping if the mood strikes, and share in food and conversation.
We’re also having a sale, so you can celebrate with us whether or not you can make it to the event! During our sale this week (October 2-7), use checkout coupon code CELEBRATE to save 10% sitewide at our store.
With Halloween approaching, it’s a great time to stock up on Snap-O-Lantern kits, Larson Scanner kits for your Cylon (or Kraftwerk) costume, and Flickery Flame kits to put in your Jack-O-Lanterns. Or maybe you just need some candle flicker LEDs for that finishing touch on your costumes and props.
AxiDraw V3, our beloved pen plotter is also currently shipping from stock and 10% off (with that coupon code) during the sale.
We are heading back to one of our favorite events, the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, October 22. We’ll be demonstrating AxiDraw. We hope to see you there!
