Archive for April, 2010

cymatics / Chladni plate experiments

Finally I had an opportunity to play around with this cool stuff! Silvia and I built this Chladni plate from a blown speaker and some recycled components. We were inspired by this instructable. I used Processing to make a simple sine wave generator with volume, coarse and fine frequency control.

Chladni plate

laser cutter on its way!

my first slice of home laser cutting action! Here is the x and y axis ready to be installed. The motors and controllers are done, the laser is on its way – watch this space!

laser cutter motor axis