[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Acrylic sign (was Re: Robot Arm)
- From: Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:04:32 -0500
So my plan had been to instead of spelling HackPittsburgh to just go with
HACKPGH to keep it much shorter. I was thinking of either checking to see if
I could do it on the Modella (knowing that Matt B had been able to make it
go) or just doing it on the drill press. My idea is to make the letters out
of groupings of different sized dots. Marty wrote a processing script that
is able to grab designs out of thingaverse and then use those designs to
pack in and make letters. I was going to alter his code to instead use
circles. Like I said I was working on this some this past week.
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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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