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Archive for May 2011

Gabrovsek / Traynor Wedding

This Memorial Day weekend I travelled down to Shippenville, PA, as the semi-official photographer for a wedding!  I say semi-official because I made no claims as to my talent, and was in fact volunteered by my friend (and daughter of the groom) Laura. Self-effacement aside, I think I took some very wonderful pictures.  I’ve included [...]

CNC DIY Etched Lighting

I’ve had these 3/8″ acrylic disks sitting in my cruft boxes for a few years now – they were the excess material from a waterjetted 2.670 robot part, and naturally my packrat nature kicked in when the professor offered them up for free.  I immediately had the idea to etch patterns into the surface that would [...]

Digital controllers are hard!

So rather than try to make a new static page for every completed project I do (which I never do because I’m obsessed with getting everything perfect) I’m going to do what all the young people are doing these days and start a blog. I’m not a terribly interesting person but I make interesting things, [...]