A short time ago I excitedly received my very first shipment from the laser cutting service Ponoko. Here’s a narrative of the unboxing, to let you know all the lovely details.
When the box arrived, I plopped it on the floor to cut it open. Our dog Pippa couldn’t help checking it out.
Continue reading Unboxing My First Ponoko ShipmentI’m delighted at how well the lunar clock is going! While waiting for stepper motors to arrive, I’ve been using Inkscape to create the laser-cutting pattern for the wheel that will contain images of the various phases of the moon. After a few hours of stumbling around (I’d never used Inkscape), I was drawing circles, arcs, and lines with abandon.
The idea of the clock is that this wheel will be behind a picture of a sky, that has a moon-sized hole near the top. The wheel will rotate to show the lunar image that most closely resembles the current phase of the moon.
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