Having a Christmas tree, I got requests for a menorah. I realized that programming it would be the easy part, and the only idea I had for the candles were transfer rollers. Transfer rollers are used in laser printers to
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Having a Christmas tree, I got requests for a menorah. I realized that programming it would be the easy part, and the only idea I had for the candles were transfer rollers. Transfer rollers are used in laser printers to
Continue readingI made seven of the ‘official’ Wiz-War boards out of birch plywood. I used 1/4″ for the base, 1/8″ for the walls, and 1/16″ for the doors. I settled on making the boards eight inches across. I made laser cutter
Continue readingIn part 1, we learned that splitting a gray scale image into a background and a transparent foreground, we need to do is solve $T=B(1-\alpha )+F\alpha $ with variables T (target gray), B (background gray), F, (foreground gray) and the
Continue readingPart of the Wiz-War project. The idea hit me when I found out you can buy blank playing cards. Terry had made his own Wiz-War game a while back that was pretty good (the game first came out in ’85)
Continue reading(fun with the vinyl cutter printer – making stickers) and here… and here… You can get refrigerator magnet sheets and attach the stickers so they can go on refrigerators, whiteboards, and laser cutters. They’ll even stick to vehicles. This one
Continue readingWhile writing my program for visual cryptography, I noticed that each pixel in a picture could gets it’s own value of an alpha transparency. While I couldn’t find a way to make it useful, I recently returned to the project
Continue readingThis idea started when I found out I could buy blank dice and put anything I wanted on them. This led to a wonderful journey of tests to make a magic 8-ball that gave sarcastic answers. Step 1: How do
Continue readingThis is almost thirty years old and I forgot I had it ’til I was cleaning up some things. Back in the day, I was renting a room in John’s first house. I didn’t have access to many resources and
Continue readingOne day, I saw a student gluing cardboard squares together to make a cube. It occurred to me that by using the raster and vector settings on the laser cutter, I could cut out an unfolded square and score the
Continue readingThis was a summer of 1993 project. In Star Trek, we only had six movies, the original series, the animated series, in the sixth season of The Next Generation and the first of Deep Space Nine. Terry helped me make
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