First steps: 3D printing

First steps: 3D printing

Exciting times are upon us as the last couple of years 3D printing has really taken off. Driven by a large enthusiasts community of makers a lot of innovation and broadly available DIY sets for building your own 3D printer have become available and while they utilize an inferior technology (FDM – Fused Deposition Modeling instead of …

Many small steps, one giant leap

Many small steps, one giant leap

Finally, just before the years’ end, we made the giant leap of constructing our first LightSaga clock (Technically it is the second if you count the original iteration made of wood). A lot of small steps were required to finally get to this point and we still need to assemble the other 19 out of our …

Glass Bead Blasting!

Glass Bead Blasting!

After manually sanding our first acrylic ring from opaque to diffuse it became painfully apparent that this method doesn’t give the envisioned result nor did it scale well to our full prototype run. A single ring costs around 20 minutes to properly sand manually and even then the result wasn’t the silky milk glass finish …

Color choices

Because a lot of the people that ordered their LightSaga prototype weren’t sure which color to pick, as it is hard to picture how it will look, we asked Aldor to help us out by making one of the small rings in each of the four colors we were going to offer. Wouter and myself …