The third year I’m doing this kind of recap here, time certainly flies. Below are images of a few projects I’ve been involved with. Some are collaborations with others, some were solely done by me. Some for clients, some for myself. Everything below here has been made mainly with Rhino/Grasshopper, and my own custom tools.
What does the aluminium object towards the end of your post do? Is it some kind of an injection mould for an award? It looks like a really fancy waffle iron!
Good guess, it’s in fact all of the things you described. I was asked to create an award for Oslo Innovation Week which was supposed to represent the maker community. So I decided to create a compression mold where both the mold and the final product would become the award, thus highlighting both making process and final product. I produced the mold using code that was generated using grasshopper (Bark Beetle & then some custom code for toolpath optimization). Although for some things like the engraving of the text I used Vcarve.
And finally the winner Too Good To Go was “handcasted” in recycled plastic from the Norwegian marine industry.
Odd, for some reason somebody else I met here couldn’t open it either on mac. Not sure what the cause could be to be honest. Is the GH python component working on mac? I think we used only standard Grasshopper components to avoid others having to install plugins.
It’s a big definition to dig through though so I might be forgetting something. Perhaps, when I get access to a mac, I need to try to open parts of the definition until it crashes.
I’m sure you do and any help is more than welcome! We haven’t been working very actively on it lately even though there’s a lot of things that still could be improved (I believe the latest version has even a big bug in the pocket generator). It’s one of those endless projects which currently works “good enough” that it’s hard to stay motivated on making progress. On one hand because we don’t know if other people are actively using it and if it therefore helps anybody else but the people at our workshop, on the other hand because we like doing other projects as well ;-). It’s far from perfect and has a bit of a learning curve to it, but you can do quite a lot of cool stuff with it that would be hard to do with other CAM-software.
The good news is, I was talking to somebody else today at the workshop who had the same issues and we might be able to borrow a mac from him with rhino soon to test with.
Yes, dogbones: I use python scripts for automatically creating those, so I don’t need to switch to grasshopper. For the animation I used Photoshop to create the gif. I had the images already from the assembly guide I made for the guys assembling the structure so just combined them into a gif.
I was asked to create an award for Oslo Innovation Week which was supposed to represent the maker community. So I decided to create a compression mold where both the mold and the final product would become the award, thus highlighting both making process and final product. I produced the mold using code that was generated using grasshopper (Bark Beetle & then some custom code for toolpath optimization). Although for some things like the engraving of the text I used Vcarve.
