Sometimes things seem too trivial to create a whole new topic, so I’m going to add my tiny accomplishments in here instead. Feel free to chime in if you feel the same way.
Tonight’s is a little edge-lit centerpiece. I just grabbed some public-domain art and added text to it. Here’s the photo:
If you want one, the files are on Thingiverse.
Mostly for practice. Mashed up some of this with some of this and came up with this:
I spent far more time than I’d like to admit strategically fattening the widths on some of that text where it was too thin to survive cutting. It works without the tree overlaid as a fun springy thing, but adding the tree gave it a lot more rigidity.
how thick is your acrylic?
my bases just came in and I haven’t measured how wide the slot is.
I wanted to make something for a friend of mine, who has a unique catch phrase. I thought @mpipes’ Just Another LAME Gift Card was an interesting text effect, so I went for something similar, and it gave me an opportunity to get in more Illustrator practice. The end result is nothing terribly special, but one of the things I like about this machine is being able to knock something out in under a hour from idea to physical embodiment.
It was close! I almost hit print and then I stared at it for a while trying to visualize what’s connected where. It wasn’t entirely obvious from the mass of lines, but I eventually realized I needed some extra connections.
Just some run-of-the-mill fidget spinners. I kind of hate fidget spinners, but they’re fun and easy to make. I guess my form of fidgeting is making things!
