{"id":623,"date":"2010-04-28T04:50:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2010-05-02T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T04:52:22","slug":"foamcore-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Foamcore Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weary to waste acrylic, I had my first prototype laser cut out of foamcore. \u00a0Not only is this material inexpensive, but it is 3\/16&#8243; thick, which gives me a better idea on how my pieces are fitting together (the plastic will be 1\/4&#8243; thick). \u00a0Check out how the foam contracted from the heat of the laser. \u00a0Reminds me of marshmallows. \u00a0Mmm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3120\/4559748239_fb24820866_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Foamcore Detail\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3120\/4559748239_fb24820866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a good thing.  I was so caught up learning how to properly merge and divide paths in illustrator, I made all edges homogeneous.  Or maybe it was the lack of sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3536\/4559748143_f604baa4f8_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Foamcore Wide\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3536\/4559748143_f604baa4f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can judge by the photographs how far I could assemble the table with all of the mistakes that existed. \u00a0The tops and bottoms were fine, but the side tabs were reversed. \u00a0Doh!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a detail of one of the more troublesome pieces. \u00a0All the notes made for a nice acrylic piece on my second iteration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4041\/4559747941_cc4649c07e_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4041\/4559747941_cc4649c07e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[flickr-gallery mode=&#8221;tag&#8221; tags=&#8221;foamcore&#8221; tag_mode=&#8221;all&#8221; sort=&#8221;date-taken-asc&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weary to waste acrylic, I had my first prototype laser cut out of foamcore. \u00a0Not only is this material inexpensive, but it is 3\/16&#8243; thick, which gives me a better idea on how my pieces are fitting together (the plastic will be 1\/4&#8243; thick). \u00a0Check out how the foam contracted from the heat of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grow-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}