laser cutter

the toek-toek robot

Fablab Location: 
Waag Society

Hello Everybody, this will be my final project for the Fablab, because I am finishing my internship next week.
In a previous project I used a EEG headset to control a small robot.
This was fun, it was very exciting, but the robot was ugly. In fact, it was very functional, but boring.
Therefore I will transform this robot into a small car.
This car will be, as suggested by the fablab manager Alex Schaub, a toek toek!

Laser cutting Parafilm

program: 
Fablab Location: 
Waag Society
We have used the Spirit GE laser cutter to cut Parafilm.

GloveBox

GloveBox
The VASTAL Virginarium is a six person Glove Box artistically designed by Adam Zaretsky and Mason Juday. The glove box is being made using the WAAG Society¹s FabLab laser cutting and rapid prototyping machinery. It is designed to provide a sterile field for Bioart Laboratories. But it is also designed for public performances, which revolve around cultural interpretive issues of purity, sterility and cleanliness.

Experiments with food

Fablab Location: 
Waag Society

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stamps

Fablab Location: 
Waag Society

for a jewellery exhibition i needed stamps to ad some colour on black/white copied booklets and white paper bags to create a quick and low budget house style.
starting with a design created in illustrator, inverted so text and images will turn out right when stamped. i used the inexpensive rubber which i could buy at fablab directly. it comes in the size of A4, so i decided to make emedialtly a fefor a jewellery exhibition i needed stamps to ad some colour on black/white copied booklets and white paper bags to create a quick and low budget house style.

Invitation production line / wood cut

Fablab Location: 
Waag Society

The goal is to make approx. 50 wooden invites (12 x 9 cm) using the laser cutter.
The invitations have a rasterized picture on the front, text at the back, and a little stand. To have the invitation rest on the stand, we burned a shape 2 mm into the wood. Settings for this were speed 19 and power 95.

creation of a pakaging for 'my little garden' brooches

Fablab Location: 
Waag Society
I needed a pakaging for my brooches 'my little garden'  (ingraved and laser cutting by a companie)
 

I decided to use laser again to cut my paper for the pakaging.

Wearable prototype with AR and video diary

project: 
Fablab Location: 
Waag Society

This is working protype was made to test and communicate:

  • How it feels to document your social struggles with a camera.
  • How it feels to interact with an AR character.
  • How it feels to wear the wearable


The blue light indicates that the camera is recording.

Laser Engraving

program: 
Fablab Location: 
Waag Society

Laser Engraving a Notebook

Prepare: JPEG formated images can be engraved with the laser. I have found that a simple image gives the laser novice a more satisfying result.
FYI: When doing cutouts on the laser, images must be vector format. Therefore you will save time by converting your image files to vectors before your reservation at the FabLab.