Another point of view – low-tech hacking with just your fingers


Mechanical greeting cards

Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner [4min selection]



123D Make

With Autodesk 123D Make you can turn your digital 3D models into amazing real world creations made from cardboard, wood, metal, and other flat materials.
Download 123D Make here

Inkscape

Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor. It’s free and open source.

  1. Download & install XQuartz. XQuartz is an open-source effort to develop a version of the ​X.org X Window System that runs on OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has shipped with OS X since version 10.5.
  2. Download Inkscape here
  3. Draw something or import it from somewhere else
  4. From Inkscape save cutting plan (Save as command) in “Plain SVG” format.

Visicut

Visicut is a user-friendly tool for laser-cutting.

  1. Download and install Visicut
  2. Download the correct Visicut settings here for the Zing laser cutter.
  3. Open Visicut and in the Edit menu choose settings to import the downloaded file.
  4. Open the cutting plan SVG file.
  5. Choose your material and its thickness
  6. Press “Execute” to send a file to the laser cutter
  7. Put the material in the laser cutter
  8. Use the spring to calibrate the height of the laser above the material
  9. Start the cutting

Fablab is here

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The Epilog Zing 6030 laser cutter

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Cutting

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Assembling

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Abel’s assembly

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Concentration

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