Websites that inspire (and get the budget approved!)
 

We know there comes a time when we have to convince the financial manager of the need for a MechMate. Please give links that inspire, and that we can show to her.

untothislast
Because we can

From this site:
Hani Al Mandeel (Bahrain)
Fabrica's small carving done on a MechMate

(I'll tidy the links up for you - you are welcome to post looong web addresses)

creative resins <----that is a ShopBot PRT Alpa making that "stained glass"

Here's more inspiration:

http://www.legarefurniture.com/

Temple of scrap CNC offcuts from a toy factory

Thanks Gerald for those links?
Human creativity always amazes me how it can bring us to unexpected grounds !

Robert

Hy guys ¿No new addresses? This is a nice spot for newbies to learn different possibilities:D

hello guys,

To answer to Hugo some new web adresses (French ones) who show the numeric cut potential :

LET'MOTIF
Atelier SIGNEA
Lutun ar c'hoajoù

Just other web sites for big boat cuts...http://www.ad3d.fr/
and buildings decoration : http://perso.orange.fr/cyborg.decoupe/

A new web site concerning a special type of plastic used by CNC companies and designers, pdf files concerning special quality plastic boards with exemples inside !:cool:

www.lucitesolutions.com/

This is a link a friend of mine, just sent me...
A designer who sell in France a very nice CNC cutting staircase...from sketchup drawings.

http://escalierzazou.blogspot.com/

Good exemple of two other nices CNC Cutting service providers web sites...

http://www.thewooddesigncompany.co.uk/
http://www.routitout.com/

Bye, :rolleyes:
Pierre.

Thanks, Pierre.:)

http://www.zomadic.com/Zomadic/Photos%20Page.html & more pf their photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/zomadic...57594283371440 and http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/07/...easons-tables/

Here is a guy in Sweden who is having his first steps with a CNC router:
http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/mes...312/22745.html
He writes in a very readable english :)

Now why do I mention him in a "budget approval" thread? . . . . . Have a look at what he said today:
http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/sho...5626#POST55626

We found the very same situation in Cape Town....big companies with big CNC routers pushing out square panels all day, and then very happily outsourcing the smaller, more "complicated" jobs at very high prices.

Gerald,

I have found this product from the museum shop of Art Décoratifs during a trip in Paris this summer.

It is a japanese artist who use laser cutting... Have a look it is very, very nice !! :):)

I have bought a small dog in kit (the picture)!!

Web adress : http://www.d-torso.com/ (French) . . . . . http://www.d-torso.com/index-en.htm (English)


For those who would like to go ahead and better understand Torso models, this is the mother company web site with more construction precisions :

http://www.wtv.co.jp/com/index.html

Bye,

Pierre.

Looking for Mechmate future owners.
 

Hi Gerald, Hi everybody,

Maybe a new way of working for CNC owners or just a CNC web utopia ??
Amazing !. Have a look.:cool:

http://www.ponoko.com/

Bye,

Pierre.

Great .... Great !!
 

The ready made Disaster House Architect web site, Gregg Fleishman :

http://www.greggfleishman.com/index.html

Good dreams for all Mechmate builders ....

"Great" again ... Sorry.
 

Designer Ronen kadushin web site :):

http://www.ronen-kadushin.com/, see Open Design chapter.

"...In Open Design, the design is a two dimensional "cutout" represented as digital information. It relies on the Internet's communication resources, to publish, distribute, and copy the designs under a CreativeCommons deed. Coupled with The flexibility of CNC production methods, all technically conforming designs are continuously available for production, in any number, with no tooling investment, anywhere and by anyone..", Ronen kadushin.

Nothing too crazy but I like that they offer monogram names. Nice price too:

http://www.catseyecollimation.com/fieldcases.html

Young french well known Contemporary artist
 

In his web site, with people sculptures (scan3d+cnc) and lithophane, Xavier Veilhan explore different cnc possibilities.
I really love his work....:cool:

http://www.veilhan.net/

bye,
Pierre.

A good friend and client:

http://www.woodpeckerproducts.co.za/product.html

Joe Crumley used a ShopBot to cut many of these "dimensional" signs into HD polyurethane foam at Norman Sign Company. Joe is a legend, active on many forums, and the most helpful and sharing person that walked this earth. But, he is getting old . . . :)

Nice models from cnc cut 2d parts.
 

The website of a french mechanics teacher with nice models and nice animations from cnc cut parts.
Have a look at "the train rentrant", a real piece of work.

Bye,

Pierre.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/aerotech/

Best creativces furnitures i have seen with cnc cutting ...
 

Hi guys,

mexican designer+CNC = best design furniture i have seen with wood flats panels.:eek::eek:
Have a look !! : http://www.pirwi.com/

Bye,
Pierre.

wood KITS
 

Hello everyone,

Have a look at these designer website :

1) http://www.davekeune.com/, series 3 page.
2) http://www.superhappybunny.com/products/neoamish.html
3) http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/arts...AcarineSAU.pdf, differents models but great ideas from 2d wood panels to 3d volumes.

Bye,

Pierre. I continue the quest ...:):) (not an electronic knowledge guy but try to bring you the imagination ...)

Young architects + CNC = great and huge projects gallery
 

State of the art in machining complex volumes.:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Presentation of project with Lamina software use (unfolding 3d structures) :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/, pages 1 to 15, after ??or go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/tags/exhibition/
To go ahead : http://www.generatorx.no/category/co...-architecture/ [url] or "digital fabrication " search in Flicker

bye,

Pierre.

PS : I have discovered a new product : the obomodulan (http://www.obo-werke.de/board/board.html)

Here are some great Tetris shelves. Talk about Nesting......

http://kotaku.com/373751/tetris-shel...looked-so-good

Cnc New Orlean Project
 

How to build a house with wood panels and CNC ....and maybe save people : "Housing for New Orleans" Chapter.
http://www.momahomedelivery.org/index.php/posts/155

Bye,

Pierre.

I thought i saw it here first but when i went to look for it i didn't see it in this thread. So check this out:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/340548/expanding_table/#

Here is another UK site.

exterior lounge chair
 

Web site : http://www.lyx.com/show.php?id=1069389

and always this summer MOMA exhibition in NYC on ready made house with CNC cut (Housing for New Orleans chapter) : http://www.momahomedelivery.org/
(Are there NYC guys on the forum ??)

Bye,
pierre.

Wowww!! This is a good quality

http://www.anderswallin.net/wp-conte.../landscape.jpg

http://www.anderswallin.net/2008/01/mowing-foam/

"Ecomanufacture" web site
 

Hello Gerald, Hello friends,

I just would like to present my new web site concerning my Mechmate use in France (with some new furnitures drawings) and a blog concerning :

- Home manufacturing
- Social engeneering (like the Mechmate Network).
- DIY knowledge network.

"Social Engeneering" is a concept of Neil Gershenfeld, MIT Professor who have created the Fab Lab and make a CNC(shopbot)on wheels to run across the US .
See post below in this thread ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_fab_lab))

My web adress : www.ecomanufacture.fr (with automatic translation !).

Regards,

Pierre.

http://www.archdaily.com/10157/waterflux-rsien/

Not sure what it is, but I want to get the code for it....

To answer to the last post :

It is a french architect quite famous for his writing in recycle and bio contemporary architecture. If you want to go ahead to see his work in English : http://www.new-territories.com/

It is quite strange to talk about him for me in this forum because i invit him for a conference in my architect school 11 years ago !!.Memories ...

Bye,

Pierre.

Ps: His name is François Roche.

Thanks Pierre!

He is absolutely amazing!

Hey guys, came across this very interesting site that's just chock full if ideas of things to make! It might even work as a marketing tool..."look these folks will make your widget for $xxxx I can do it for you for $xx"

http://www.ponoko.com/

Found this site helpful.... www.pronty.nl ... loads of ideas....I better not show this to the wife..;)