Author: Pi

Wait-Hate

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A project from my novice web design period, I helped out a few of my friends with a website for scheduling classes. www.wait-hate.com   Some Images from the Facebook page I had made:   Read more →

Carbon Holey Film for Cryo-TEM

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This carbon holey film was made from a silicon wafer template I fabricated. I made the wafer template and the imaged sample is carbon film Dr. Kenneth Downing made using the template. Credit to the UCB Nanolab, for tools and guidance. This was my first experience with wafer fabrication, but definitely not the last. This technique is not fully perfected… Read more →

Slide Film

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Testing out slide film for portrait use! Gorgeous depth of field effects. Obviously shot with a wide open aperture, this film was ISO 100. I had an interesting time working around that…     Read more →

Laser Cut Earrings

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My grandmother came to visit from India so I wanted to show her something cool. I pulled some flower vector images from the internet and had my grandma pick the ones she liked. Then I cut those out of acrylic and mounted them on earring studs! I think they came out very pretty. Here are the image files and the… Read more →

Laser Cut Leather

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  I’ve been making lots of laser cut things and I’m learning a lot about laser-safe materials. When cutting leather, always use veg-tanned leather. Any leather that is colored or nice and soft is likely chromium tanned. Sulfer dichromate releases poisonous sulfur gas when burned, so laser etching isn’t a great idea. I got my veg-tanned leather from Tandy Leather!… Read more →

Playing with Lenses

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There are 8 frames in this set of vector horses. Together they make up the first few frames of the infamous xeotrope horse animation. These horses are scaled to match their apparent size on the projection screen. This project coexists with a camera obscura that another Heatsync Labs member (Prescott) made. It’s the entire upstairs room of the lab. Read more →