Below is a selection of development diaries for projects I'm working on. I try to keep these up to date; if I've been working on something then I tend to post an update at the end of the day. This is my alternative to posting on social media.
Most recent updates are at the top.
Figured that if I could make a 3d printed holder for the Cricut blade, then I could make one of the scorer/creaser too. It's just a hard slightly rounded point, so I didn't even bother with the holder part. A bit of configuring and I had some gcode set at...
For various reasons I needed to raise the pen plotter up by 37mm - 3d printing to the rescue. If I had two books the right size I would have used them. If I had a woodshop I would have just cut wood to the right size.
But I had neither of those, so I solve it my own way :)
I've taken to writing in the greenhouse in the morning, and decided to sew a couple of notebooks while I was in there.
Time to print some more notebook covers, to get me to the 32 notebooks I want (that I still haven't worked out what to do with yet).
I've been working on my FALLiNGWATER project, writing code that allows me to spit out files for the Riso printer. So most of that I'm posting over there. But, I printed some the other day where I ended up making the margin too big, the design looked a bit too...
The whole point of this was so I could stamps some cards that said "No Need To Reply To Art Mail", which is a semi-fun note to include in things when I send some art, along with a more detailed explanation telling people that they shouldn't feel that they need...
Popped into the studio this morning, to make sure I got all the zines done in time to send off on Monday. Here's the rest of the pages all cut and folded and ready to put together.
I've refined the pen holder design a little bit. I've decided to just go with TWSBI sized, which is fractionally too small for LAMY pens. But if I make it a little bigger the TWSBI wobbles around a bit and it just feels a bit off. I can of course...
And another jump in time 😅 Since starting the project I bought myself a printer, and having decided after all my pen plotting ink tests that I did indeed want to use the inks I figured it was time to focus on the design and try to move the whole...
Okay, back at it today, and a few more passes, and I kinda love it.
The colours really pop in the photos and it just looks like a wonderful thing to have going on in a drawing machine.
Another part of me is worried about all that dust near the machine though, so 🤷♂️
Hmmmmm, I should really upload and back-date all the handwriting photos I have so far, but as I'm starting these dev diaries now I guess I have to start somewhere. These photos were taken so I could add them to my newsletter, but I didn't use them in the end....
