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What’s Happening Now – November 2023

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  • Booked our tickets for Workbenchcon.com in Atlanta!
  • Changed the sign to say “EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY”

    Thanks Jimi
  • We continued to work on the Ikea Bowl Lamp
  • Matt made a pretty cool stool which is on-brand
  • Changed the sign to say “ANATIDAEPHOBIA” which is not a real thing. But we made a nice picture of a duck watching you. Thanks Gary Larson!

    Thanks Gary!
  • Finished the Drip Door – CNC Work, a lot of sanding, and then finishing with Rubio Monocoat
  • We started a project involving Projection Mapping, which is kind-of cool.

What’s Happening Now – October 2023

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October has been pretty busy – so busy that I haven’t had time to update the What’s Happening!

  • We updated the sign with Egyptian Hieroglyphics (How Beautiful Are Thy Buttocks)
    60 era sign displaying a banana, the Loen.Design logo and some Egyptian hieroglyphics
  • We finished a prototype door for a house renovation that has a 3D carving of water droplets on it. We made a cool handle for it too. This was on the CNC.
  • We have redesigned the way the bell controllers are packaged for the bell project. We’re stacking them 5-high now, and we’re updating the software so each can control two bells. This will cut down on the number of wires and clutter in each bell tree.
  • Rich went on vacation for a couple of weeks (Las Vegas (U2) and Los Angeles, and Victoria). 
  • Rich visited Apex Electronics in LA, and it was quite amazing!
  • We cleaned up the shop
  • We made a bunch of test projects with the Fiber laser – it’s an interesting tool and it is really neat to see what it can do.
  • We updated the sign with CECI N’EST PAS UN SIGN which is a reference to a Magritte painting about a pipe.
    60's era sign with a banana, logo and the words CECI N'EST PAS UN SIGN
  • We started work on the real water drops door, which is made out of solid Walnut – a pretty huge 3D CNC job.
  • We built a case for the fiber laser that includes a door with a window in it that doesn’t let the laser light through. Seems like such an obvious thing to build considering the way fiber lasers are built at this time.

What’s Happening Now – September 2023

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Things are a bit quieter now that the summer students are back in school, but there’s still a lot happening!

  • We’ve glued up the slabs for a solid Walnut door for a closet. We are now working on the design for the front of the door – sort of a water ripple effect. Using all the features of Vectric Aspire to accomplish this.
  • Trevor has released our first video in a long time – the start of our weekly “what’s happening in the shop” shorts. Trevor is also hard at work on some longer, more in-depth content.
  • Brooke has been working on the finish for the guitar we’ve been building. It’s looking pretty cool.
  • We’ve been figuring out how to put hieroglyphics on the big sign. That should get people wondering I would think…
  • I delivered a large table top to a finishing company, who will apply a very solid professional finish. We just didn’t have the time to work on this at our shop – nor the experience…
  • We’ve built a guitar!
  • Updated the sign with some lines from a poem called “A Poem for Someone Who Is Juggling Her Life” by Rose Cook
A 60's era sign, with a large image of a banana displays the words Be still sometimes Let it all fall sometimes
Be still sometimes.
Let it all fall sometimes.

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What’s Happening Now – August 2023

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We’re very excited to welcome Trevor Jones to our team! Trevor will be working on video content to accompany our projects. Trevor’s work will be visible on our YouTube and Instagram channels.

With 3 summer students working away, it’s been a very busy month!

  • Working on getting bells into trees, with ringing mechanisms running
  • A ton of work on the software for this project – making the admin UI much more user-friendly, and the whole system more reliable
  • Fabricating more trees, in different styles
  • The 3D printers have been running non-stop all month making bell ringing mechanisms!
  • We’ve been building out our list of data sources, and getting them all in our database
  • We updated the sign to an IT Crowd reference, and then again with a movie reference, and a grammar reference…
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A 60's era sign shows a large banana, the Loen.Design logo and the text "You know I'm something of a scientist myself"
A 60's era sign with a large banana on top, and a text area that reads "NOSASCOMP"

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