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 (5 and 7 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
done:
- 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:
- Laser-cut product logo into a piece of 4mm plywood. It's about A3 size and can be used to draw the complex logo onto a whiteboard or flipchart.
- Laser-cut stylized christmas tree ornaments with product logo.
- Laser Cutter: A more or less 3D robot to be put together during a treasure hunt at my daughter's birthday party.
- Designed in Autodesk Fusion (after the fantastic Seminar here in the space).
- Exported to DXF files via the free plug-in DXF for Laser. Exported all relevant faces individually.
- Use File Drop to get (zipped) files to Laser PC.
- 3D printed broken Flowbee adapter
- First with original version by daschi. It was almost robust enough with 100% infill and PLA - almost ;-)
- Created a derivative version with Autodesk Tinkercad. Just added more material at the most fragile part. -> yet to be printed :-)
- Laser-cut and engraved stylized paper flowers to put around play-doh containers.
in process
- "Unicorn" game based on designs that my daughter and I made.
- photo for the Members Wall
- Follow guide on Members wall page to create word document
- Add black-and-white photo
- Turn the Word file into a JPG:
- remove table borders in Word (the following step will mess these up, somehow),
- select everything and copy-paste "as a picture" into PowerPoint (on an empty slide),
- in PowerPoint, you may want to add a new border,
- select everything, then right-click and "Save As Picture..."
- Drop resulting JPG onto laser file share, etc.
- Follow steps on Laser Engraving Photos, especially, use Gimp to:
- make it very bright (color->brightness contrast),
- filter->enhance->sharpen(unsharp mask): increase amount to get sharp lines but not black areas,
- colors->dither: R/G/B levels to 2; experiment with Dithering Method, Blending Mode (should be almost binary)
- Experiment with laser cutter to engrave on Poplar Plywood with these settings:
ideas
- 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.
