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Young inventors in the state will get a helping hand to realize their creative dreams with mini fab labs in engineering colleges

Engineering students can now let their imaginations run wild. coming to select which help convert those imaginative ideas to prototypes. the ambitious venture is being rolled out under the aegis of  kerala technological university (KTU), in association with the Kerala startup Mission (KSM).

"Twenty collages will have mini fab labs in the initial phase of the project. We had received 46 application from the affiliated engineering colleges. An expert committee will short-list the frist 20," said M.Addul Rahman, Pro-Vice Chancellor of KTU.

Jayasankar Prasad C., Chief Executive officer of KSM, Pointed out that the aim of the initiative is to bring a marker ecosystem in the state. "It will usher an in-house development facility in educational institutions and mould talents with skills in design, development and fabrication," He said.

the Project Proposal said that the min i Fab lab will work on a partnership model, where KSM and rhe host institution and mould talent with skills the cost on a 50:50 basis.

Experts representing Fab Lab Kerala (comprising the two Fab Labs in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram set up by the goverrnment with the support of Massachusette Institute of Technology) will Provide the technical expertise to run and maintain the mini fab labs. the partnering institution wll buy the equipment. KSM will undertake the installation of the labs under the supervision of technical experts from the fab foundation.

some of the equipment in a mini lab includes laser cutter-mini version; mill/router cnc; Vinyl cutter; electronics workbench: function generator; soldering station and accessories. other consumables and accessories for each equipment include softwood, acrylic boards, copper clads, wax vinyl, copper tapes eletronics workbench Kit and cleaning tools

people behind the initiative exuded confidence while started that the proposed mini fab labs will help in stepping up the technical skills of both students and teachers. they will also get wide recognition as Fab Lab course and certification are accepted globally. young inventors have an opportunity to get international visibility for their product besides getting a chance to collaborate on Fab Lab Projects Through the Fab Lab network. The youngsters could Explore the advantage of having dedicated channel to connect with fab gurus at fab labs in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.

They will also Receive opportunities to collaborate with kerala startup Mission to develop startups based on products developed at the mini Fab Labs.

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A Q & A with artist Susanna Crum on the opening of calliope Arts

[ the above images is "breaking the loop (the loop)" by Susanna crum.]

print markers Susanna crum and Rudy salgado Jr. are the owners of the brand new calliope Arts print marking studio and gallery ( calliope-arts.com). It is something they have been thinking about and planning for since their college days.

LEO: you recently opened calliope Arts as a  collaborative space. please explain how it works.

Susanna Crum: calliope Arts opportunities for artists in four different ways: through monthly studio membership, which provides artists access to printing presses and equipment; exhibition opportunities with our workshop gallery: classes for experienced and first-time print makers; and a visiting artist program for local and nationally-know artists.

LEO:why did you feel calliope Arts is needed in Louisville?

Sc: print marking studios like Callipe arts are location all across the country. Because Louisville's  arts scene is steadily expanding, along with the metro area's local university art programs, it's especially necessary for artists to be able to fine a space and a community to work in after school or when they're trying to make a living to support their practice. calliope's workshop gallery exhibits fine art lithographs, woodcuts Screen Prints and etchings from renowned and great entry point to collecting artwork. we look forward to opportunities to help Louisville area residents learn more about printmarking processes, print's role in contemporary art and collecting original art to share with their friends and families.

LEO: Since part of the Space is dedicated as a gallery, when do you plan to start showing Exhibition?

SC: our workshop gallery is currently displaying framed and unframed work from artists working in Studios and universities in France, California and Massachusetts. Our Frist visiting artist, Douglas Daggers, a recent Millay colony and Vermonter Studio center resident, is coming oct 13-20 to make artwork, which we will also have on display curated, themed Exhibition are something that wll started happening in the next year or so, in which we put out Specific calls for entry.

Leo: As individual artists, what type of printmaking do you prefer to do?

SC: I have been making work in Cyanotype, which is essentially a photographic blueprint process. i make work about the lost or forgotten histories of specific places, so i like to use the socially-charged history and visual language of printmaking to enrich my research-based projects. Rudy is looking into using a pneumatic engraver for his next project, Which basically a 21st-century take on a 15th-century tool. We're both looking forward to working with local maker spaces to make wood blocks and plates with laser cutters and CNC routers. 

LEO: since you are print-makers who are married, tell us a little about your life stories.How did you meet

SC: Rudy and I met at the university of low a in 2009 where we received our master's degrees in printmaking. this means that throughout our relationship, we've always been very busy and working together towards specific goals for our art, life and work. We were both frustrated that our students often stopped making prints after graduation, because it's so difficult to buy and house prints making presses and equipment and nothing really beats the collaborative atmosphere of a shared printing work space. We moved to Louisville in 2012 to start calliope Arts, Which Would Provide a Space for emerging artists to make work alongside professionals, which is something that meant a lot to us in both of our past experiences after college. We got married in October 2013, so our two-year anniversary is just around the corner, which is also about the anniversary of the time that we've spent working in the space that is now calliope Arts.Running a business together has been intense and wonderful so far, because we have such different skills and interests. Rudy's parents run a dental lab in southern California, so he grew up in a live/work environment, with the lab on the same lot as his childhood home. he's great at managing time and planning very complex processes like sourcing and receiving work for exhibitions, and i,m better at marketing, designing our classes and graphic design. someday we may have help with some of these things, but i think we both got into art marking because we love to do many very different types of work, and our approach to art brings so many experiences into our lives.

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when architects at architecture incorporated next present a plan for campus development to a potential client, they will bring a model created by a 3-D printer.

For now, its sits on a conference table at the downtown sioux falls firm firm-a replica of a large piece of land with miniature three-dimensional buildings designed by the architects.

"instead of spending hours and having to build it by hand... those were done in about two days of throwing it on the printer, "architect catherine Dekkenga said.

nearby, another model is "more of a dream," she said. it shows the firm's own building at 415s. Main AVe.and how a nearby parking lot might be redeveloped.

The 3-D printed model allow a architects to pop up the parking lot's footprint and see how other buildings might look there.

"the idea is what can we put in between there instead of just a parking lots, " Dekkenga said. "what would a skyscraper look at them.

"It's hard because it is an expense, and sometimes smaller firm haven't invested yet but there are tools like this that definitely architects are starting to use a lot more," Dekkenga said.

Architects historically have embraced new technology as a method to help clients understand designs before anything is built, said Dave van Nieuwenhuyzen, director of architecture at fiegen construction Co. and president of the south Dakota chapter of the Americna institute Of Architechts.

"computer programs have come a long way as a tool in accurately producing renderings, images and animation.. and placing them into the context of the site or in the case of an addition or remodel into the existing conditions,"he said.

"Now, with the advent of 3-D printers and other virtual reality technology, architects are able to produce more and better with these new tools. talking 2-D prints into the 3-D environment helps the client see their project come to life."\

At Architecture Incorported,. "we've always had a commitment to try  to do the new stuff, at least try it out,"founder and president Dick Dempster said. "I love It. I'm of the era where we cut our fingers with X-Acto knife Blades... and now you create those shapes on the computer and just print them out. It,s Exciting."

The firm will get even techier soon when it starts using Oculus Rift, a virtual reality system that uses a headset to immerse someone in a scene.

"you put on the glasses, and you can hook up a joystick and walk through the space-upstairs, through doors, down a hallway and experience the whole model," Dekkenga said.

The architects tried it out following a trade show recently and were hooked.

"It was almost like a roller coaster," Dekkenga said, as she tried it out with design of a church i got to walk on the balcony, down some side stairs, through doors and into a hallway," she said. "It was neat. This is a whole new element of feeling the space and being surrounded by it."

The new technology will be a unique perspective for clients. Dempster said, but he's also excited about using it to better communication with engineers and for his staff to visualize project as they are working on them.

"I'm anxious to see how it works when we walk through a campus setting, an assembly of buildings or a downtown area," he said.

"it will be a great tool for integrated into higher education before they are introduced in professional offices, he added.

That's also the case at south Dakota state university, where architure student use multiple 3-D Printers in their designs as well as cnc router to cut models.

there's also a plasma cutter to cut steel and a 3-D laser scanner, which students can use instead of measuring and drawing spaces.

Department chairman Brian Rex Compares the technology to "like you see in CSI where you put it in a room aor space... and it sends out a pulse of laser, and when it bouncess back, it does all the point in space around it."

the school is trying to develop new architechts with knowledge of technology who can help firm move forward, he said.

"All these change that used to be kind of radical ideas are fairly standard when you have people who know how to use them,"Rex said. " they're no longer the extravagances they once were, and clients paid for it though the nose. Now, every client expects it."

Addining new technology also will help Sioux Falls compete with Firms From other markets that are eyeing the city for business, he said, while adding that firms in the whole area "are doing a really good job"

"There are no cities this size I Know of that have this many firms that are this good."

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Creating Organic wood textures with a laser machine.

we Live in a time where technology is growing at exponential speeds. At a recent woodworking show, I stumbled across the idea of laser technology and furniture for a simple low-cost way of creating texture. the laser has been used in laboratories since the 1960s and continues to amaze the mind with new unique application as the decades go by.

Laser Printing on Wood

Rather than using a traditional ink printer, a laser machine uses the power of the laser to precisely burn or engrave depth into a material. the process starts by capturing a digital photo of the surface material you want to replicate. A simple picture taken with any smartphone device will have more than enough resolution to easily store a quality high-resolution image.if you are not a photographer than a quick search on internet will locate hundreds of patterns, textures and wood grain prints.

High-speed laser engraving on fiberboard

A remarkable material for this laser engraving process is medium density fiberboard(MDF). The surface of MDF is flat, smooth, dense and free of knots and grain patterns. The Homogeneous density profile of MDF allows intricate and precise laser machining and finishing. This material is widely used in the manufacture of furniture, kitchen cabinets, signage, store fixtures, paneling, and other mill work applications. MDF is the perfect solid wood substitute. The stability, Strength, and cost allow for an increasing number of applications.

Many MDF panels today are using computer numerical control (CNC) router technology to produce complex grametry and patterns on the surface. Kern laser system is combining software and co2 laser to produce realistic wood grain depths and patterns. Their large format laser engravers use a high-speed scanning head to laser engrave a true 3D surface texture depth. it's possible to supply an endless library of images into the machine. MDF panels can be specifically laser machined as an effective alternative to solid wood components. they can be used in place of expensive, hard-to-source exotic woods.

Another growing technology today includes 3D printers as a way of manufacturing almost any model or prototype. Through plastics Powder or Filament spools, you will be able to create your product from the ground up.Although this is a fascinating field,the production of wood panels and other surfaces would take an extremely long time to Manufacture. High-speed laser engraving on a manufactured substrate like MDF will produce a much higher volume and a much larger panel size.

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Head Case : Jorge Pardo creates a hall of mirrors at david gill gallery
At first glance, Jorge Pardo's huge oval-shaped mirrors that are currently lining

the wall of london's David Gill Gallery look as if htey are framed by abstract flowers made up of concentric circles. however on closer inspection, the outline of each swirling pattern can be identified as the cross section of a skull.

cut on a cnc router, the cerebral head scans each belong to a writer or thinker admired by the Havana-born artist. Among the anonymous portraits are Hal Foster, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Food writer Jonathan Gold and the great art critic of the modernist era, Clement Green berg.

A series of cabinets and tables featuring portraits of the artist and his family are displayed alongside the mirrors. I thought it would be interesting if this show took on the role of a convoluted portraiture machine with all the works having different forms of portraits, 'say Pardo. 'The mirrors are portraits of critics, the furniture with Portraiture of my family and the tables will have images of me. some of the furniture will also hang from the wall like paintings.'

The 12 mirrors, each measuring 274cm in height, feature a constellation of 12 heads that amplify the natural irregularities in the shape of the skull. the patterns are random, 'says pardo. 'when i work with patterns and colour my interest is density of irregularity. It's a simple system, which is really not much of a system: I choose a shape to diperse colour and any combinations of colour work'

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Greasing Your CNC Cutting System

We’re always talking about how to maximize the longevity of your CNC machine and consumables. Proper and timely maintenance is of course the easiest way to ensure you’re getting the biggest bang for your buck. Just as you would change the oil in your car or use WD40 on a squeaky door, adding grease to your CNC machine ensures it runs smoothly.

We recommend re-greasing your machine every month. There are 3 main areas for greasing: the bearing cars, the racks, and the ball screw (in most CNC models).

Bearing cars

Bearing cars can be found on either side of the x-axis gantry, y-axis, and z-axis. Using your grease gun, position the tip directly over the small ball inside the bearing car. Make sure you are compressing the ball. For a properly primed grease gun about 3 squeezes should do it. Wipe off any excess grease and repeat for all bearings.

On some older CNC machines the ball will not be directly accessible for the grease gun. Use the smaller attachable tips to compress the ball, and squeeze the grease inside.

Racks

 A light coat of grease is recommended for all of the racks. Lightly squeeze your grease gun as you move along the racks. Then use you finger to ensure the grease has gotten inside the teeth of the racks, as well as removing any excess grease. Remember only  a light coating of grease is needed; too much will just cause a mess and trap dirt and debris.

 Ball-Screw

On most MultiCam models, a ball screw is used to move the Z-axis up and down. Same as the racks, use just a small amount of grease around the screw. Usually just using your finger is sufficient. Again, if you use too much grease you will be trapping too much dirt, which can be especially problematic around the ball-screw. You don’t want chips or debris flowing down the ball-screw as this can damage the ball nut. For our V-Series models, there isn’t a ball-screw. Instead there is another rack and pinion so you can follow the instructions above.

After 6 months we recommend a complete grease clean-up. Using a de-greasing agent, de-grease all bearing cars and racks, and then re-grease them. Why go through all this trouble? Grease is a lubricant but it also traps dirt and debris, which can eventually lead to build ups. Too often we get calls from customers about poor cut quality or cut chatter and the reason stemmed from a build-up of dirt. Save yourself a potentially expensive service call by instituting a semi-annual clean-up.
For the ball-screws however, do not use a de-greasing agent. Instead use another lubricant, like a torch lubricant in a plasma system. Lubricate the ball screw and then wipe everything clean with water, then re-apply the grease. We say this because it’s extremely important that chips and debris do not travel down into the ball nut. A de-greasing agent can do it’s job too well and debris will slip down into the ball nut. Dirt in the ball nut can cause binding which eventually results in a motor fault. If debris is stuck in the ball nut, the motor needs to work harder to move the Z-axis, drawing too much amperage, thus causing a fault.

We sell grease cartridge packages and grease guns. Just visit store.multicam.com and order yours today! Save yourself the hassle and expense of machine down time by just sticking to a proper greasing maintenance schedule.

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Emily Hermant, who joined the faculty this semester as a assistant professor of sculpture, seeks to inspire students in the sculpture foundry in the woldenberg art center on the Tulane University uptown campus.New Digital art were a gift from new Orleans resident louis jung, in honor of this mother, harriett Tolar Jung, a 1940 Newcomb collage graduate who majored in painting. (Photo By Ryan Rivet)

Artist Emily Hermant’s practice often plays with aspects of permeating technology in contemporary life. Her work reinvents the ancient art of sculpture using modern materials.

Hermant, whose practice spans sculpture, installation, fibers, digital media and drawing, joined Tulane University in August as an assistant professor of sculpture in the Newcomb Art Department, housed within the School of Liberal Arts.

“It’s exciting to be at Tulane to develop a sculpture program that incorporates nontraditional approaches,” she says. “It’s an opportunity to expand the repertoire to include practices that have historically existed on the margins of the field.”

Receiving critical acclaim, Hermant’s beautiful, thought-provoking work has been exhibited internationally. The Washington Post described Hermant’s Spatial Drawings, in which long planks of wood have been curved into graceful and unusual poses, as “wavelike ribbons of lumber … as lithe and leanly muscled as ballet dancers … [her] sculptures activate the space they’re in, along with our perception of it.”

Hermant, who hails from Canada and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, says that she “will encourage students to experiment and take risks, to work in new ways with traditional materials, to develop ways of using new materials, and to experiment with emerging technologies.”

Hermant as well as other Tulane artists can experiment with new sculptural work and test their boundaries using the Newcomb Art Department’s CNC router, a computer controlled cutting machine, and 3-D printers. With a CNC router, an artist designs artwork in a computer program, and the computer communicates to the machine how to carve the artwork. A 3-D printer works in a similar fashion, but by methodically adding material.

These digital art tools were a gift from New Orleans resident Louis Jung, in honor of his mother, Harriett Tolar Jung, a 1940 Newcomb College graduate who majored in painting.

Mary Sparacello is a communications specialist in the Office of Development Communications.

Artist Emily Hermant's practice often plays with aspects of permeating technology in contemporary life. her work reinvents the ancient art of sculpture using modern materials

hermant, whose practice spans sculpture installation, fibers, digital media and drawing joined tulane university as an assistants professor of sculpture in the Newcomb Art Department, housed within the school of Liberal Arts.

"it's Exciting to be at tulane to develop a sculpture program that inccorporates nontraditional approaches, "she says. " it's an opportuity to expand the repertorie to include practices that have historically existed on the margins of the field."

Receiving critical acclaim, Hermant's beautiful, throught-provoking work has been ehibited internationally. The washington post described hermant's spatial Drawings. in which long planks of wood have curved into gracefull and unussual poses, as "wavelike ribbons of lumber... as lithe and leanly muscled as ballet dancers.. [her] sculptures activate the space they're in. along wwith perception of it.

Hermant, who hails from canada and received her MFA from the school of the Art institute of chicago, says that she "will encourage students to experiment and take risks, to work in new ways with traditional materials, to develop ways of useing new materials, and to experiment with emerging technoloies."

Mary Sparacello is a communications Specialist in the office of Development Communications.

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