{"id":1177,"date":"2021-04-08T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:43:27","slug":"layer-project-first-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/kgvalery\/layer-project-first-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Layer Project | First Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night I was able to complete the first cut and assembly of the Layers Project. I was able to use a cardboard box to cut my test pieces and had the power set to 15% for one pass. (The laser did cut at 10%, but the 15% was to make up for the distance from the top left corner.) The layers came out perfect and construction wasn’t too hard. I ended up using the slicer provided in class to make my pieces, and it helped tremendously with putting the pieces together. I also found that having vertical slices made it easier to construct the fingers of the project as well. While a few smaller pieces were lost in the process, I was able to have most pieces, small and large, glued together. I simply used a glue stick as my adhesive. While this was unexpected, the corrugation on the inside of the cardboard created an interesting visual effect that make the model look partially “see-through” from the front. This was a pleasant surprise, and while the sides of my final acyclic will be glass clear after cut, I plan to sand this down, but I’m reconsidering my options. Below is the final construction of the model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n