Author: kivamccr.xyz

  • Foraminifera Wall Hanging

    Foraminifera Wall Hanging

    Foraminifera are fossilized zooplankton and phytoplankton, aka tiny shells. My mom studied them for her PhD. So I made a wall hanging by vectorizing Earnest Haeckel’s drawings, then laser cutting them.

  • Hercules Beetle

    Hercules Beetle

    This is a wooden puzzle sculpture that I made in CAD and then laser cut.

  • Kapton Graphene

    Kapton Graphene

    When Kapton (the funny little plastic tape) is laser cut it breaks down into a graphene foam. While the uses are varied, it is a conductor and can be used for resistive heating, or laser engraved PCB design, as only the laser engraved portions become a conductor. This was a little experiment I did to…

  • Rings

    Rings

    It took quite a few iterations to figure out ring making. These were done on a manual lathe. The first is made of brass, and barely fit, and was quite uncomfortable. The second one was steel, that ended predictably, after a few days I took the ring off my finger to be met with rust.…

  • Cabin Render

    Cabin Render

    This is a quick render I did for fun and to learn how to import stuff into unreal engine. It was modeled and made in blender. This is one of my earlier renders.

  • Totoro Render

    Totoro Render

    I love the little coal sprites from Totoro so I tried rendering them out, and learned the hair system in blender.

  • Prism (3D Printed)

    Prism (3D Printed)

    This was my first test in 3d printing optics. The prism was printed on a Form 3 aka a SLA resin printer. As you can see with a bit of polishing I was able to make a working prism. This was advanced when I made a lens.

  • Surfer Render

    Surfer Render

    So I had a black hole 3d render pop up on my feed so I learned how to do it, but I couldn’t get the colors perfect, so I doubled down. As such this is a rainbow iridescent surfer going around a rainbow black hole. Made in Blender.

  • Turn-it-in Box

    Turn-it-in Box

    My mom was a teacher, she asked for a box for students to turn in papers. This is laser cut, and the back has hinges and a locking mechanism.

  • Lasercut Ukulele

    Lasercut Ukulele

    As soon as I finished my guitar I realized how hard it was to play, so of course I decided to start on a ukulele. While technically the design is ready to print I never got around to it. The design was made as before in Solidworks and parametric so it can be laser cut…

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