Hi everyone,
bonus: join the jitsi videochat with the space tonight, and chat with each
other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually)
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or because I BCC'd you directly. Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for
those who want to come hack on whatever in person, or through telepresence of
any means you can invoke.
Unfortunately we are in a pandemic, and rates are high right now, so don't
hesitate to sit this one out (especially if you've been exposed or feel sick)
but I am practicing starting up this email again anyway, and reminding people
about this ongoing weekly event.
That said, remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
i haven't put it on the calendar but i'm planning to be there soon after 6pm
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat at the beginning of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you need to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
see you soon!
-jake
I am on my way to mentor a fabulous talented sweet artist at 5 this evening with her peices and will receive anyone as they are with their lasering skills from 6pm till at least 10pm as needed by the community. A few other people might show up. Im flexible to mentor any project on plain thin 1/8 in birchwood, up to 1/4 in mdf, cardboard and sometimes 1/4 in plywood or 1/4 in acrylic(maybe thicker sometime but its too stinky!)
If you are new or recently back to lasering please do read the wall of text about the needs for care and safety and preparation and materials selection that I posted in volume 111 issue 17.
Feel free to join the view at https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles, <https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles> though it will be loud much of the time. I can evaluate a good time to give a quiet overall intro, possibly at 6pm or whenever people new to lasering show up. Feel feel free to alert us on turtles that you are at the front door or ring the bell or message one of us if you have out num already.
If you join the vid chat to get in the door we will see you in less than a minute and answer the door in one more.
About the fume extractor, we have a fan ventilation system, but someone was kind enough to widen the angle that it gets to the roof and now it seems almost 50% as stinky as before. We need help with an engineering problem of proper width and second fan specs. I thought I could get to NB to ask the geeks there but its no longer as easy to get to. David gave me a bunch of specs that yeah I cant remember. I am better at communicating these things, can someone with an engineering or physics background step in to help us?
Its gonna be real fer sure. Games but no more games ye feel me? Brace yourselves this is tracting to be more lit but earth based than ever before. Stand in your position and do your thing. Represent the heart, and new opporunities for the heart and money, economy, the earth and our present placement representing good will amongst the all the peoples human and not.
Multipass!Â
When I was last at SudoRoom I was more into skateboarding but now it’s surfing and snowboarding 😸 I broke my ankle skating and ended up trying to do a 3D Print-out of my ankle cat scan. It wasn’t successful but that’s once if my favorite attempts there
I hate being frozen a t a computer but it’s necessary for flow state . Is there a way to weave the outside with the inside or is that even desirable ? I was on some 6 hour bike rides the past few months and wanted to draw or reflect in nature not necessarily at a computer desk - no internet but it would be nice to do programming on top of a remote mountain away from noise and ads
The space is so well organized now !
Thinking about projectors and doing art projects with cartoonists I know. I guess I’ll chat with Jake because we have 3D projectors ? There’s old art projects with projected art featuring “mixed reality “
It’d be cool to do that in SudoRoom! Or noisebridge . There are a lot of cheesy Instagram friendly museum of ice cream type immersive environments itd be fun to do something more artsy or electronics focused
https://www.krzysztofwodiczko.com/public-projections
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Lately I’ve been printing out larger art pieces on color laser printers. I just tape the stuff together.
I guess I’d like to make big cardboard figures eventually (will have to glue them to cardboard backing and stand up)
Saw stuff like this at the old Rps
Here’s something from a carhart store in Berlin many years ago
🥰
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Hello Sudoers
I am happy to announce that I finally came full circle with my laser skills to be able to offer mentorship to Sudo Roomers.Â
I have been for several months taking my lasering from user on one machine to understanding multiple and some over-all skills, drilling down to what we have in our blessed upgraded "Chinese Red and Black" (!)(no really that is the open shared handle/keywords).Â
We have access to an amazing machine that just so happens to be one of the more common and reliable "off brand" (ie knock off of possibly "OmTech") machines), so sorta kinda open source (limited documentation). It has been upgraded I think to 100wso is actually more powerful that it was originally. It currently works fairly well.
After many hours and tears I discovered and rectified the Red and Black's cracked lense and mirror alignment issues that contributed to its past lack of power. (Always a work in progress)
I have been working with machine for about 2 months now wanting to share its baddass-ness, but needing to maintain and learn about the Queen.Â
I had been having trouble engraving to make it look better than a blasted out version or any pic. I am not able to generate a photographic quality engraving, but I am now finally able to make a metaphor of the original and also success with cutting 1/8 birchwood, 1/4 in MDF, acrylic, and 1/4 in plywood with many passes, I am now ready to share my findings with the community and give various versions of a "laser training" to Sudo.Â
For this training we will only be cutting 1/8 Birchwood or 1/4 MDF. In the future we can work with Acrylic or late if everyone else has gone home (stinky!).
We will focus on introduction to laser cutting safety, generating viable files, and specs to work with various materials.
I have worked for months and months now to get to this point so please understand coming into this how valuable this moment is to have access to such a powerful machine. Please try to come to at least 3 of these mentorships and expect to watch some videos and/or read some material before being confident lasering. There are so many ways to not do the appropriate thing for the cutter. It is important to know exactly why you are choosing what settings you do. It is imortant to maintain high awareness as you proceed from design to cutting. A wrong move could scorch the mirrors, the lense, ruin your art, or start a small fire (which could ruin the machine). Improper use can also cause undo air quality issues that also could be avoided (no vinyl ever!!!)
It is with all these things in mind and great respect for the tool and the community that training and constant awareness is needed by community members with every cut.
I am now able to teach a comprehensive beginner level training. I will do it in "Mentor style" at first, taking in the skill levels of whoever shows up, possibly culminating in a joint class with a professional.
Keep in mind even "simple cuts" can take much editing to be ready, and can take much time to cut. I can only teach from practical short example files to start, and report back from longer more ornate projects that I have finished.
With this in mind, if you expect to cut something on a non-acrylic focused Laser Lunes, please bring your own 1/8 in Birchwood slab from Blick for ~$6.00 for a 12/24 in sheet or 1/4 in MDF from McFee's lumber. I must prioritize these materials for the first few classes, as other materials take 2-5x more cut passes and may stink quite a bit more.
I will select simple SVG files from the community to cut in the mentorship, and can advise on improving your vector files (Inskape!)
I will continue to hold Laser Lunes mentorship Mondays, 6pm -10/late, and will also have an acrylic night soon. Please consider donating to Sudo Room on behalf of this class: https://sudoroom.org/donate/
(Also one could bring some extra 1/8 Birchwood from Blick to share with future Laser Lunes Mentorship Mondays/the Room.)
Multipass!
Lilu
