Sunday, April 22, 2007

My Other Life

This is one of the projects that has absorbed my attention this month (and which, you should infer, are preventing any serious blogging):



It's for my 3D Computer Modeling class. I made everything you see in there and then added and modified skins as necessary. I still have a few to go (the book covers to the right, for instance, aren't supposed to look like cardboard) and some general tweaking to get the look right.

Here is the other:



It's a heads-up-display built into a pair of safety glasses to assist the homeowner with repairs and upgrades.

This one is actually the bigger of the two projects. It looks less impressive here because most of the work is going into the physical model. Also, I need to work on designing the interface and creating the presentation to go along with it.

I did get a chance to play with the laser-cutter today when making the goggles depicted above. Now that is an impressive piece of equipment. It was my first experience with a machine that is NOT from the project-ruining family (or at least hides its connections very well). I loved every minute of it. Having that victory early in the day helped me get through my actual encounter with real project-ruining machines later (the bandsaw version claimed at least two models today and would have claimed my third if I hadn't realigned my intentions to more closely match what I actually produced).

EDIT:
This is the final version of the desk scene.

(Bruce you might recognize that top book...)

1 comment:

Sarah said...

That's me in the picture! :) Very cool!