User:Micha
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about me
Hullo fellow makers!
I'm a computer scientist turned user experience designer living in Nußloch.
Pronouns: he/him
interests
Everything 😅
I'm still exploring the space. I can imagine I'll find a couple of useful things around the household, regarding home automation (mainly Homematic IP right now), musical instruments (bass guitar / guitar) or repairing electronics. Or anything that leads to some cool or fun stuff for my kids (4 and 6 years old).
Besides that, feel free to chat with me about Terry Pratchett, politics, computer games, management, parenting... really about anything but soccer or beer.
projects
- A laser-cut of my daughter's name for the door of her new room.
- Steps:
- Use PowerPoint to create samples of my daughter's name in different fonts.
- Have multiple rounds of voting on her favorite representations of her name to find her favorite one. Of course, she picked the most fancy-looking and curly font (see screenshot).
- Convert winner name to SVG.
- Import in Inkscape, add a border.
- Export as DXF (on the same machine as PPT, Inkscape so it knows the font).
- Try out a few ways to cut this into a piece of poplar plywood (4mm):
- Cut: the centers of the letters are not connected to anything so they fall out. Doesn't look good.
- Engraving the name gives a nice result (cut the border, of course). Just some smoke resdiue on the surface.
- To remove discoloring around the name, sand the surface with some sand paper (by hand).
- Further options: Paint or spray or give a finish in some other way.
- Steps:
- Several contraptions to put multiple prints of photos on a concrete wall without drilling holes for each and every one of them.
- Maybe several picture frames as well.
- Our family name as a sign on the outside wall next to our front door. There are already holes there from the previous owner which I could use to attach it to the insulation.
- more to come 🤓
machines I've had an introduction to
contact me
You can reach me via Special:EmailUser/Micha.
