I 3D-printed my self

A while ago, i got the oppertunity to 3D- scan my head with a professional scanner. The scanner picked up very tiny details, but the raw mesh output had to be cleaned and modified heavily. This is a capture of the raw scan before fixing, and making myself more beautiful.

After fixing the mesh, and adding a pedestal, i got got a printable file. Now my megalomaniac tendencies have been satisfied, and i can sleep well tonigth.

New portfolio: nordvikmanifestation.portfoliobox.net

Producing the first part for my hydroponic setup

So, today i decided to produce the first part for my hydroponic setup. The part in question was the Left mounting bracket for the tubes, here marked in red.

Since this part will need to handle both twisting and downwards pressure, i did FEA analysis of the part, and changed the design until i was happy with the result:

immediately after machining the part, i had to play with it to see if it was rigid enough. Needless to say, the part snapped. The problem was that i had not taken in acount the direction of which the grain in the wood is orientated.

Disapointed with todays result, i gave up any further work, and instead pimped my office-cactus with some ultrabrigth LED's and ate chocolate.

Concrete casting workshop

Yesterday i and Christina Lewis held a concrete casting at Bitraf.
The workshop was meant to be a collective tryout of concrete as material for both art and technology.
We used a thin, low viscosity concrete, intended for use as garage floors.


We did two rounds of castings, in the second round, we added colour in the concrete. The color was a challenge in it self, as adding any substance to the concrete, alters its properties. The one i ended up using, is a pigment in powder form, normaly used for painting chalk walls

For the big candle holder shown at the intro, i milled a mold from building insulation using a 10mm milling bit for removing the bulk of the material, then finishing it up with the 6mm long ball nose.


For the small project that we did over the weekend, using a drill mounted spiral mixer in a bucket where sufficient. For the molds, we used the already mentioned machined foam block, as well as cut bottles, coke cans, crumbled paper cups, and 3d printed molds.

The 3D printed molds where especially interesting, as the low viscosity concrete capture every minute details from the print.

More results from the workshop:

 If you want to try this out yourself, have a lookout for the next workshop at Bitraf's meetup.