Apr 21, 2014
Visualized weather data for Indianapolis, IN. The piece is made by stacking a series of laser-cut acrylic discs, each representing the average temperature of each month of the year with the largest discs representing the hottest months.
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Visualized weather data for Indianapolis, IN. The piece is made by stacking a series of laser-cut acrylic discs, each representing the average temperature of each month of the year with the largest discs representing the hottest months.
David Neevel's Rube Goldberg
Illinois-based Superior Joining Technologies is "a Woman-Owned Business," as they proudly point out; for several years they've also been the owners of an incredibly bad-ass machine called the Trulaser Cell 7040, a 5000-watt beast manufactured by Germany's Trumpf. The Trulaser 7000 series are multi-axis laser cutting and laser welding machines that run off of CAD file input. What can these machines do with metal? A better question is what can't they do. Observe their sheer majesty.
An originally-funded Kickstarter for developing countries makes large-scale 3D printing affordable
Using a laser cutter to reproduce (albeit low-fidelity) any record using some leftover hardwood