My enclosure project is going to take two weeks to finish. It’s a bit of a doozy.
This is a box that I made for my Live Image Processing and performance last year. It’s janky. It’s delicate. It causes problems when I try to take it through airport security. It needs an enclosure.
The enclosure will have two distinct parts made of different materials. It will have an exterior made of wood and an interior made of acrylic This week, for my laser cutter project, I will make the interior part of the enclosure.
I started off by opening up my old project. Last year, I used it to cut black cardboard. This time around I’ll be using acrylic, which will help reduce friction and hopefully make it easier to use. I’ll be modifying it by adding inlays for the lights to live. Exposed neopixels might be a nice aesthetic for ITP, but this thing has a frustrating tendency to fall apart.
I think this project might take me a while, so I will finish this post once I’ve completed the project.
I cut out my entire sheet at once, which you advised us not to do. I guess I’m a rebel.
Using wooden clamps to hold it in place as the acrylic weld dries. and that brace looks… oddly familiar.
The long, slow, annoying process of gluing everything together