[Make Something] boasts he has made probably the fanciest picture frame you’ll ever see. He started with an original sign purchased on eBay and then made it to be bigger, brighter, and better. The frame is of solid walnut with back-lighting for the imagery all chasing that classic mid-century modern style. The backlit photo was taken the “hard way”, with an actual film camera and a road-trip to the picturesque site at Yellowstone. [Make Something] then developed the film himself in his home studio.
For the chimney [Make Something] used a new trick he learned in Autodesk Fusion: you take a photo of an object, convert to black and white, and then use the light/dark values to emboss or deboss a surface. To do this he took photos of the brick wall outside his shop and used that as the basis of the textured chimney he made with his 3D printer.
If you’re interested in other projects made from solid walnut, check out 3D Printed Spirograph Makes Art Out Of Walnut and Walnut Case Sets This Custom Arduino-Powered RPN Calculator Apart From The Crowd.
Thought that was Adam Savage there for a second…
I can see why you might make that mistake. I happen to have written a Hackaday article covering one of Adam Savage’s recent projects, so stay tuned for that!
It was just the way the header photograph was cropped. I love Adam’s work. He still does a lot of stuff on his “Tested” YT channel, and is pretty much the only one out of that crew that still shows up in public now that “Pumkin’ Chuckin'” is over with.
Ultimate? Is this paid content?
lol. No, this is not paid content! I’m not sure why the editors picked that term for the article headline. I agree it is a little bit hyperbolic! :P
At first look, I wonder how he cuts a display to fit that angled frame?
So you can take an image and use it to add or remove material? Think of the circuit boards you could create…you know with something to etch the copper off where it’s not needed….. or even transfer an image into laser deboss (/S !)
I like mixes like this, I made a table top from carbon fibre and oak some years ago.