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Laser cutter

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Last month we had a proper hack evening and finally installed the laser cutter!

We had a bit of a bash with it on the 19th, but we’re going to have a proper session next meeting, tomorrow. Bring ideas!

First cut

As we couldn’t resist having a proper go, we tried a keyfob from Nottinghack’s laser cutter manual. Came out lovely.

There’s lots more detail on training, safety, usage and materials on the Laser Cutter static page. And I’ve posted some more laser cutter experiments from when the cutter was in my garage on http://lasiverse.wordpress.com/.

Light painting

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A short and belated write-up of the light painting session we held Monday before last.

It wasn’t entirely dark:

There was a full moon and the sky was clear:

Nevertheless, a bunch of us gathered and ventured into the abyss of Delapre Park:

We played with torches:

 

 

We played with flashing lights:

We played with fire:

But soon we retreated to the warmth of the clubhouse at NSME:

Where there were plenty of trains:

And some shiny objects to laser:

Many more photos on Flickr, tagged northackton.

3D Printing/Prototyping Talk Night

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Monday night is our next Talk night, this months topic being 3D printing and prototyping. We’re hoping for a good turnout after the NSME open day 2 weeks ago.

The talk starts at 8pm but we’ll open up the NSME clubhouse from 7pm onwards.
There is a chance for some practical work after in the form of paper crafting. Bring a windows laptop if you’d like to design your own 3D model to assemble. If you’re just interested in the paper craft assembly I’ll have some simple models to hand. So bring a scalpel, metal ruler and something to cut on.
The software you require is pepakura and a trial version can be downloaded from here. http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/download/designer.html
Look forward to seeing you all on Monday.