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Brass Scarab Brooch

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 11:14 — Jake von Slatt

In the comments about my CNC mill project over at Hack-A-Day, Jarkman posted a link to this really beautiful CNC'd brass scarab brooch and I can't help thinking that this would make a lovely computer mouse too!

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Open Source Jewelry - Improbablecog

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 11:24 — Jake von Slatt

Noah has posted an update at Kickstarter with upgraded rewards for contributors!

Good friend and fellow tribesman Noah Beasley is joining the Open Source commerce fray, offering up some of his most popular designs.

[My] Items are created in a computer with modeling software, and then converted from bits to atoms using 3D printing technologies. By using this method, an item can be replicated a thousand times, or only once. There are no molds, there is no casting, there are only robots building each item from the physical pixels of the material required.

This means these things made of matter are not much different than any other piece of intellectual property such as music, movies, or software.

Click through to read more and support Noah's Kickstarter Project - I'm in! - Jake

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Electrolytic Machining of Brass - Part II:

Tue, 01/16/2007 - 06:37 — Jake von Slatt

Sherlockian brass earrings, Ankh and cog earrings, and gear necklaceIn which your humble proprietor theorizes that; if he can etch into one side of a brass plate he may be able to etch completely through the plate from both sides. A fixture is constructed, current is applied, electrolyte boils and jewelery is made.

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