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design

A Synaesthetic Arboretum

I realize I don’t have anything here about the art project Lauren Gust and I did for Steer Roast of 2011. It was an awesome set of hard acrylic tubes filled with water with air stones at the bottom which were controlled by a micro-controller. Visually we wanted to evoke a tree, with the hard tubes as the trunk and small flexible tubing reaching up … Continue reading A Synaesthetic Arboretum

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making things

Water, Water, Everywhere

Part of what I’m building for work includes making things watertight, which is always a little hellish. Since we love to makerbot everything we can, last week I experimented with making PLA 3D-printed parts watertight and waterproof. I print on the lowest quality (for the fastest print) and at a pressure head of about 2cm the untreated parts didn’t leak overnight. Anything above that and … Continue reading Water, Water, Everywhere

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