[hackpgh-discuss] Acrylic sign (was Re: Robot Arm)

  • From: Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:57:23 -0500

That sounds like a good way of doing things, and would give us "artistic
flexibility" on how we arrange the letters. I'm driving Monday, but can
look at my code on Tuesday.

--
Matthew

On 01/02/2011 05:01 PM, Ed Paradis wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The working area might be a
>> little small for making a side-lit acrylic sign, but you could probably
>> fit a 4x6" piece on there.
> 
> Jeff and I thought that we'd do each letter of "HACKPITTSBURGH" on a
> separate piece.  This would make each letter up to 4x6" and the whole
> sign would be almost 5 feet long.
> 
> That sounds long, so maybe we'd do it differently than that. :/
> 
> But if we made each letter on the same size work piece, we could make
> a jig to hold that size work piece on the modela's stage.
> 
> Jeff already bought some suitable plastic.
> 
> Ed
> 

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