Jake Studdard Final Project (post needs to be updated)

For my final project I wanted to make a dice box to roll and hold my dice for D&D. The idea was to 3D model a map to be CNC milled into wood and made into the lid for the box. I also 3D modeled several major locations of the map to be 3D printed…

Jake Studdard Kerf Project

For my project working with a laser cut kerf pattern I attempted to make a tube shaped container for holding dice used in Dungeons and Dragons. I wanted to create several flat peices that could be joined together and assembled into the tube container by using a kerf pattern I designed based on the different…

Jake Studdard Laser Engraved Images

Halloween was approaching when we were learning about how to turn a digital image into something laser engraved, so for my project I chose two particularly spooky images. The final result engraved on MDF came out with good detail but a little light and hard to read from a distance.

Jake Studdard – Assignment 3

For my “Skinned object I chose an octopus. When playing around with Slicer, I noticed that a lot of the objects were being broken into long branchlike forms and I figured that the flowing spindley nature of an octopus’s tentacles would make for an even more layout of the object “skinned.”

Assignment 2 – Hemli’s Coin

I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons so for our shapeways print I decided to create the talisman through which one of my character’s casts his magic. This specific character, Hemli, is a mischief maker who get’s his power through a pact with an equally mischievious diety named Squelaiche. Squelaiche loves gold, small creatures,…

Jake Studdard Assignment One – Keeper of the Speakers

The object that I chose was one of the two speakers that sit on my desk. I spend most of my time at my desk and a lot of that time I spend listening to music. Because my desk is in the living room of my apartment I will also often just play music out…