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Step 7C - PKM
PKM
I decided to make a letter from paper-skinned bamboo on a circuit board backing (bought in London's famous Camden market, no less) in reference to earlier projects, to illustrate the fundamental dichotomy of art and science, and because it looks kind of neat.
I had the idea of the font I wanted in my head and then found a font online that matched that image. (Image 2) I actually blew up the image on my computer screen and traced it onto a piece of paper (3) because I don't have a printer.
I hot-glued the halves of the circuit board together (4), then clipped, assembled and hot-glued a lot of pieces of bamboo skewer to make the outline of the letter. (5) This was then glued onto the paper letter tracing and trimmed. (6) Finally, the trimmed, skinned letter was glued onto the board. (1)
The board won't stand up on its own so I decided to make a bamboo tripod for it to stand on. (7) I threw the tripod across the room a few times to make sure its rickety construction could stand up to being posted across the atlantic, but I forgot the package might be opened (especially if someone X-rays it and sees it's full of circuit boards :S) so it might be damaged in transit. Well, short of hand-delivering it what can you do?
The parts went in the shipping box my last ebay purchase was delivered in, with copious bubble wrap and brown paper taking up the excess space.
I decided to make a letter from paper-skinned bamboo on a circuit board backing (bought in London's famous Camden market, no less) in reference to earlier projects, to illustrate the fundamental dichotomy of art and science, and because it looks kind of neat.
I had the idea of the font I wanted in my head and then found a font online that matched that image. (Image 2) I actually blew up the image on my computer screen and traced it onto a piece of paper (3) because I don't have a printer.
I hot-glued the halves of the circuit board together (4), then clipped, assembled and hot-glued a lot of pieces of bamboo skewer to make the outline of the letter. (5) This was then glued onto the paper letter tracing and trimmed. (6) Finally, the trimmed, skinned letter was glued onto the board. (1)
The board won't stand up on its own so I decided to make a bamboo tripod for it to stand on. (7) I threw the tripod across the room a few times to make sure its rickety construction could stand up to being posted across the atlantic, but I forgot the package might be opened (especially if someone X-rays it and sees it's full of circuit boards :S) so it might be damaged in transit. Well, short of hand-delivering it what can you do?
The parts went in the shipping box my last ebay purchase was delivered in, with copious bubble wrap and brown paper taking up the excess space.
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