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Tag: laser cutter
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Seven Days: Jake Blend’s Spirograph Is One for the Record Books
Jake Blend broke the record for largest spirograph during Art Hop at Generator! All it took was experimenting with laser cutters, CNC routers, rubber, and wood to bring his vision to fruition. Read the full Seven Days article>>
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If Pete Can Do It, So Can YOU!!!
How to turn your idea into reality!!!
If Pete can do it, so can YOU! We have built a home for all of your brilliant ideas and suggestions to live.
Step 1: Fill out the proposal form and put it in the box
Step 2: Ideas get reviewed
Step 3: Ideas get voted on at the members’ meetings
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Pete Talbot: Resident of January/February 2015
Pete Talbot, Maker in Residence – Cardboard Products
January/February, 2015
Before Pete Talbot had joined Generator as a maker in residence, he was fully submersed in the laborious craft culture of hand fabricating cardboard arcades called Grottoblaster. Pete got a small taste of the magic of laser cutting which brought him to Generator. His idea to create a cardboard pinball machine that would serve as a platform for fun, creativity, and learning grew into a larger social and manufacturing project than initially imagined. By the time he finished his residency, Peter became an expert Adobe Illustrator and laser cutter user. He not only had a working prototype but the beginnings of a whole new line of product and educational services.
“Generator’s community was helpful for bouncing ideas off of people. The members come from a wide array of backgrounds and skill sets; someone always has good advice about a process or how to problem solve. Generator helped me to save money and to be smarter”.
-Pete Talbot
Pete and Ben’s cardboard pinball machines and other creations keep gaining more traction so be looking out for their next debut or invention!
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Erin Barnaby’s Laser Cut Jewelry Class
Photos of the awesome projects that students were able to do in Erin Barnaby’s Laser Cut Jewelry Class which was held at the Generator in June 2014.
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Photos of our laser cutter
Finally some pictures of Generator’s laser cutter in action! Our Epilog laser cutter arrived late in February and we have been playing with it (practically non-stop) since then. Matthew Thorsen stopped by on Monday and took some pictures of us cutting the Generator logo into a scrap of wood for the Seven Days article:
Making in progress… The finished result:
Even the remnant pieces can be repurposed into something useful!
