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SFDL Week 4: Excited Hearts and Broken Parts

A project log for Perceptoscope

A public viewing device for mixed reality experiences in the form factor of coin-operated binoculars.

bensaxbensax 07/29/2016 at 23:040 Comments

This week started off with some excitement -- I'm psyched to announce Perceptoscope is a finalist in the SXSW Eco Place by Design competition! I'll be headed to Austin in October to present the latest developments in the project.

In terms of manufacturing this week, the big focus was on prototyping out the stereoscopic optical assembly and starting to mill the bearing blocks on the Tormach.

The optics came out looking mighty nice and the FOV is even better than the last unit.

With the help of fellow resident Bruce from Call to Adventure, we started planning out how to make a mold for resin casting the optical assembly instead of printing.

Milling the bearing blocks was less successful. It seemed like I had gotten my tool paths figured out...

But speed and feed definitely weren't quite right... We ended up breaking the tool holder in a pretty magnificent way.

It's going to take a little more milling and research to get things quite right, but we should be able to get it humming next week.

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