There’s a new and nifty and incredibly awesome resource in Long Island City these days: a LASER!
Designglut in association with Length Width Height (a fabrication lab in the “incubation” center at NY Designs), hosted a laser party last night and invited designers and artists to try it out with some free etching & burning time. Awesome!
All projects were cut on a Trotec laser with double gull-wing doors – made it look like a DeLorean when both the doors were up! This thing is proper, and capable of some really remarkable and remarkably precise cuts. Some people cut out little keychain shapes; a piece of fabric with a lattice-like design; or some flexible wood made into bracelets. Like I said, AWESOME!
Big ups to Ben W-R from LxWxH for organizing the event – there were some great people there, and I definitely need to organize some shop time myself and get involved.
super-duper punters:
the exhaust vent needed to keep the laser cooooooool:
Did you actually do this? I have always wanted to try this and learn more about the process. very cool.
I just observed. Had my questions but it’s clearly a bit of a learning curve. Lots of variables like heat, time, material that need to be better understood.
I definitely plan on taking some classes/workshops there and learning a lot more.
When is the next laser class? The schedule has nothing on it and I sent an email but received no reply. Looking to enroll… =)