The house one reminds me of d’ni numbers…which would be the coolest dice ever.
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I have the Surface Pro 4 (not the book) and it’s been great and was wonderful through college (graduated 7/2016) as it was much lighter than my previous laptop. I just had to take it in the week before Christmas to get it swapped because the screen had lost it’s touch sensitivity – they had it swapped out and back to me within a week (even around Christmas!) … just like my replacement Glowforge! One week later and my replacement was there (UPS was a bit hard on it). We just finished our first cut tonight! Now deciding what to try next.
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This took almost as long as the Glowforge. Last summer I started to make a hat and I pretty much finished it up on Friday.
It needs a bit of finish but I’m happy with it as a first try.
The base structure is made out of a yoga mat. The patches are 2mm craft foam and the rivets are five minute epoxy. The whole thing is painted with black acrylic and then treated with silver and antique copper Rub n Buff.
I definitely needs a sealer coat. I wore it Friday night and ended up with a black forehead from the paint.
The next version I’ll be able to cut the patterns with the Glowforge. 
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Fantastic and now Rub n Buff is on my shopping list!
Neat stuff. A little bit goes a long way. I put the copper on with a light touch so that it would be a patina over the black. It is wax based so the more you buff it the more shiny it gets.
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Amazing build! I’m so impressed by how that unusual materials list ended up looking so much like metal.
I just got a tube at Michael’s, looking forward to trying it.
Since I got the GF I have so many projects I want to try I can’t keep them all straight…
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Some of the fiber babies
and a few of the pieces I take off and put in weird places…a turquoise silver smithed piece, a steampunk watch works wire wrapped bracelet, and a couple of geometric beaded bracelets (all but the turquoise have been published in various books)
and a few of the pieces I take off and put in weird places…a turquoise silver smithed piece, a steampunk watch works wire wrapped bracelet, and a couple of geometric beaded bracelets (all but the turquoise have been published in various books)
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Great job on that hat man. All set for the next Burn?
Very nice work! Thanks for sharing!
The cat with the yarn ball is my fav. 
Nice silver work also. Did you happen to cut the stones too?
No, lapidary is one thing I haven’t done (yet). The cat with yarn is a Jim Shore piece. I am just too lazy to move my pieces to photograph them 
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Wow! Love the hat, love the beadwork. 
Looks like those bead jobs would take a while! I tried a wire wrap once, it looked like a wad of wire that had been run over several times…
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Last fall, I stumbled across a computer model I really liked, so bought it and used it to make a rather creepy-looking Mad Hatter.
Machined out of pink foam on my CNC, then coated in a liquid plastic. Made the steampunk hat from I template I purchased at lostwaxoz.com. Lots of airbrushing and other finishing involved.
I mounted a Raspberry Pi up in the hat and there’s a camera that looks out the front keyhole in the hat. Powered by a Li-ion battery in the base. It takes time lapse photos and uploads them automatically to Dropbox through their API.
Was an interesting project.
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Really like nice work!
The satisfaction of seeing your mental image manifest drives us to create. That’s a show piece! Thanks for sharing that 
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Nice work.
The template for the hat I posted is from Lost Wax Oz as well but I’m guessing you recognized that. 
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What’s the run time on the battery?
Sounds like it would be a good compliment to another project I started before they closed down the building where my gallery was located.
I wanted to make a small desk or end table with a drawer. When you opened the drawer there would be a random photo in the drawer. The furniture would have a hidden photo printer connected to an Instagram account. Anything with a certain tag would get printed and it could add event or location info to the print.
There were two main printer issues with it. Size and paper supply. I had picked up a printer to strip down but it only held twenty 4 x 6 sheets.
Hmm, I may need to revisit that project soon.
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Wow! That’s amazing!
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Yes, I thought it looked familiar! Nice work, by the way. Takes a lot of patience to layer on all those patches.