Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Daniel Morel ATCM 3355.001 F23: Project 4: Makercase Lamp


Concept:

                My neighbors and their love for EDM DJ “Subtronics,” were the inspiration for this project. We’ve become great friends (they even dog sit for me), they know about the things I do here in ATEC, and have mentioned that it would be great if I made them something with the Subtronics Cyclops logo (top right corner in pic). Enter our lamp project and so I set out to design something that would encompass their love for EDM and my appreciation for them.

Process:

                I started with some research and sketches to get some early layouts of the logo and symbols for other things you might see at a concert. The Adobe Illustrator tutorial videos got me thinking I could pull some stock vector art to turn into engraving patterns and so I toyed with that and the tween curves techniques while developing my design. I used Makercase to get the big panels cut before bringing everything into Rhino for adjustments like trimming all the overlapping lines so the laser wouldn’t make a mess of things at cut time. Some extrudes got me the 3D model to render in Keyshot where I played with labels to simulate the engraved areas.

 


Materials:

                Aside from the Sande Plywood, and other items off the shopping list, the only things I added were some sketchbook paper to cover the Cyclops logo cutouts and some Varathane wood stain in smoke gray. Combined with the burnt edges from the laser cutting I should end up with a nice coloration that matches their home décor and a soft diffuse light that should blend in with their own in-house laser shows and mini raves





 

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