Foam Phone
To get acquainted with prototyping with 2” blue insulating foam, I decided to build a large-scale model of a classic phone-booth telephone handset.The process was relatively simple. Each step is...
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To get acquainted with three-dimensional prototyping in foam core, I created a model of the first mouse I ever used, the Apple Desktop Bus mouse. The mouse was first released in 1986 alongside the...
View ArticleSquare Square Frame
This is the product of a quick but obsessive project in materials focused on making a precise, perfectly square frame. Normally this wouldn’t be a significant undertaking, but the extremely...
View ArticlePlexi Box Build
This week’s box building material is… acrylic, a.k.a plexiglass. My box design is simple enough (three sides with a few holes — an enclosure for a NIME instrument sketch), but plastic is pretty foul to...
View ArticleHand Casting
This week’s materials assignment called for the “hello world” of mold making: the hand casting. For the mold, I used MoldGel Regular Set alginate, and the finished casting was set in pottery plaster....
View ArticleMetal Box
This week’s box is made out of… metal.Work started with a nice big sheet of 20 gage cold-rolled A366 steel. This stuff also goes goes by the name “Alloy 1008” — which is 99% iron, with traces of...
View ArticleDead Drop at 319
This morning I installed a dead drop at 319 Scholes street in Brooklyn. Four gigabytes worth of zeroed bits are now available for web-free semi-anonymous file exchange.Background Dead drops was...
View ArticleFoam Phone
To get acquainted with prototyping with 2” blue insulating foam, I decided to build a large-scale model of a classic phone-booth telephone handset.The process was relatively simple. Each step is...
View ArticleFoamcore Mouse
To get acquainted with three-dimensional prototyping in foam core, I created a model of the first mouse I ever used, the Apple Desktop Bus mouse. The mouse was first released in 1986 alongside the...
View ArticleSquare Square Frame
This is the product of a quick but obsessive project in materials focused on making a precise, perfectly square frame. Normally this wouldn’t be a significant undertaking, but the extremely...
View ArticlePlexi Box Build
This week’s box building material is… acrylic, a.k.a plexiglass. My box design is simple enough (three sides with a few holes — an enclosure for a NIME instrument sketch), but plastic is pretty foul to...
View ArticleHand Casting
This week’s materials assignment called for the “hello world” of mold making: the hand casting. For the mold, I used MoldGel Regular Set alginate, and the finished casting was set in pottery plaster....
View ArticleMetal Box
This week’s box is made out of… metal.Work started with a nice big sheet of 20 gage cold-rolled A366 steel. This stuff also goes goes by the name “Alloy 1008” — which is 99% iron, with traces of...
View ArticleDead Drop at 319
This morning I installed a dead drop at 319 Scholes street in Brooklyn. Four gigabytes worth of zeroed bits are now available for web-free semi-anonymous file exchange.Background Dead drops was...
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