• Posted On July 28, 2009
  • BY Kristna

Illustrator – Live Trace Tutorial

We are using Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator to make a raster image ready for the shop bot, vinyl cutter, and laser cutting machine. Step 1: Open Adobe Illustrator, and exit the welcome screen. In this tutorial, an example file will be used. On the menu b...

  • Posted On July 30, 2009
  • BY Kristna

Latitude, Longitude & GPS

Earlier this week, Steven Schmitdkey from the US Census Bureau came to talk to us about how to use the GPS he loaned to us, and about some things to keep in mind when we go to Mission Trails. He explained lots of things and I have to admit, there were so ...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

Personal Project

In my personal project, I incorporated the use of laser etching and vector paths through Adobe Illustrator to create my hand drawing into a clean wood drawing. I then added my signature on the top left corner of the board by transferring paths from Adobe ...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

Final LED shirt

In this project, I got a black shirt, thanks to Blas, and simply made a messy look from the use of fabric paint. I decided to take the colors red, baby blue, gold, dark blue, and light green to make a this look, but it accidentally came out looking like a...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

Structure team's task

In our structure team, Esteban told us to make an improvised presfit structure from a 12″ by 12″ wood. Our goal was to make it as tall as we could within the time we were given. This was a new challenge to me because I wasn’t quite sure ...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

Latitude, Longitude, & GPS

Earlier this week, Steven Schmitdkey from the US Census Bureau came to talk to us about how to use the GPS he loaned to us, and about some things to keep in mind when we go to Mission Trails. He explained lots of things and I have to admit, there were so ...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

Returning this Saturday

I’m absolutely exhausted from all of the work that my high school’s yearbook staff and I have done. I haven’t had time to post up any blog because of how busy we were (jumping from one place to another). Im excited that I’ll be bac...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

Structure Team Update

So far in our structure team, we have made our first complete- laser-cut model of the structure. The fitting is only loose because the Laser Cutting Machine has burned the edges. But once we cut out the structure file for the Shop Bot, it will fit perfect...

  • Posted On May 28, 2010
  • BY Kristna

My Overall Experience at Fab Lab

I have never had any kind of work experience nor have been involved in any internship. Being my first time as an intern at the Fab Lab, I feel that it was one of the best choices I have made so far in my high school years. I did not intentionally aim to c...