Wow. 😳😳😳. I started watching you, 10 years ago, when you did the very first aluminum lost foam pour. You were probably 9….I was 50, …and I was SO inspired by this young man, who conducted himself like a proper adult, and giving people proper instruction, on a relatively dangerous operation. And your results were outstanding, for what basically amounted to a child, in a garage. So, inspired, was I, that I sold my home, in Mexico, and moved back to the US, where I would have better access to the materials and things that i needed, to do, what You were doing. Then I lost track of you, during covid, and during our relocation, somehow. 🤷♂️ Fast fwd 10 years, from the time that i watched you carve a foam slingshot, and I am back in the US, and have built a proper jewelers shop, in my garage, with forges, furnaces, vacuum casters, mini lathe, etc….its a proper shop, where i make both art and fine jewelry. 🤷♂️ YOU did that….you inspired that 🙏….when I first watched you, I was working out of a 3x5 broom closet that was smaller than the space that you were working out of. Randomly, this morning, I saw one of your original slingshot videos, which 1000 people have copied, since. But i recognized your voice and instantly hit subscribe. Im so glad that i did, because i wouldn’t recognize your voice, today, you’ve grown from that little boy, into a brilliant young man. I just wanted to let you know, what a tremendous inspiration you have been, to me, and clearly thousands of others who emulate your work, daily on TH-cam. Please know, that I, and i’m sure that ALL of your fans, are so proud of you and of your accomplishments. Thank you for changing my life, and i’m so happy to have reconnected with you. Now, I have 8 years of videos to catch up on 😳. Thank you 🙏 so much, and Sincerely yours for more success.
Hey, thank you so much for the heartwarming comment! I'm really pleased that you found one of my videos inspiring and that you've managed to build a workshop and business doing something similar. Hard to believe that it has been 10 years since those videos! Comments like this make it all worth it. All the best, TAOW.
So much quality here. Explanation, approach, filmwork. One of the reasons waves are so resonant/captivating/mysterious - they're never still. Their nature is to be in motion. If I can see waves ebb and flow, crest and collide, then diffuse and settle - I get the sense of a larger system and logic at work. Visual proof there are rules governing our world. Breaking the space into a grid and then actuating each point (perpendicular + independently) would allow for this. I've been building interactive sculpture along these lines :)
I used to watch you about 10 years ago when you were making slingshots and HDPE in your oven. I love that you’re still going! Congrats on your degree too, glad you pursued your dream :)
Been following your work for years mate, and these are just stunning pieces. Given they lay flat, I could easily see a use for the larger ones made of wood being used as a trivet to put a hot pan on. I’d definitely buy one, and even the small metal ones as keyrings would be a good side hustle. The obvious big choice is a table, and I think a wooden base with a glass top floating just above the surface using standoffs would look amazing. Other than that, outright wall art. In any case, keep up the great work and the very best of luck as you start your career 😊
Ah yeah that is a good idea, I was thinking the smaller ones would be good for coasters but I like the idea of a trivet. Once I get the big homemade CNC up and running again I think a table would be a great idea.
Yeah coasters too would be good, although with cups/mugs generally having a non/flat base with a ring to sit on, you may need to make the design a bit more densely packed to make sure the ring of the mug has enough support without wobbling.
Thanks for the video, you always do such neat stuff and I enjoying learning about it! The tip about surface finishes when milling with a ball nose EM was beautifully illustrated!
Let me know if you have any project ideas for applying these wave carvings to, I hope you enjoyed the video! If you are interested in the Carvera CNC machine used in this video, it is available from Makera here: www.makera.com/products/carvera?sca_ref=4180899.U68BiZuo02 (purchasing through this link will give me a small kickback to help support this channel and these projects).
Idea: you could use it on soundscape improving wall and ceiling panels. Maybe design a honeycomblike grid in wood where softer dampening hard foams are fitted, with the wood having a different but complimentary wave pattern to the pattern on the foam boards.
And a less functional idea, you could make a relaxation ornament where water runs over a sloped wave surface, maybe one where different water flow rates cause different paths and thus different sound...
Looks like your using aluminium flatbar which is a bit soft for machining, something like 5083 plate or 6061 should machine nicer. Love your videos, been watching for years btw.
We have some really large versions of the plywood waves on the wall of the recording studio at the university radio station where I work/volunteer. (CKCU FM, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada) I've been told that they're for sound scattering.
It is better to use at least two passes with ball milling where the first can be a large stepover and the second finish pass can be the finer stepover. If you finish in one pass then there is variable force or pressure or loading applied to the tool due to the differences in material thickness which always compromises finish consistency. Almost all materials finish better with some kind of lubrication. I have not tried it but a bit of grease may be just the ticket where you want some lube but also don't want to go spraying oil everywhere.
If you make two matching wave paterns with a uniform offset along the normals of the surface of a fixed distance you could layer something like alternating layers of paper mache to test and make little flat billets with the height map pattern project and create an effect similar to blacktail studios epoxy denim table top. I think blue denim like that could look cool with inlayed brass
I think It would be very nice, if @AlexSteele would donate a nice little piece of Titanium Damacus to let you carve. The layered Damascus would be even more spectacular than the layered plywood, which in itself, is very unique and beautiful.
Congrats on completing your degree! I wonder if you could use those machines to carve a wooden or metal housing for a video game controller or something. you could definitely do a faceplate for an xbox controller.
This is by far the best video on the Carvera that I've seen, and I've watched a lot. Designing one large wave piece that is split up into multiple acrylic blocks could look cool as tiles in a bathroom wall. What do you think the learning curve is like with these machines? Do they provide some sort of starting point for feeds and speeds based on different materials, or do you have to figure all that out yourself?
Cheers! Learning curve with these machines was quite straightforward, I think they're pretty forgiving and the setup on the control software is very easy. There's also a feeds and speeds guide in the booklet with the machine, and on fusion 360 they have defaults that you can select which is a good starting point
Ordered a Carvera Air of one your eariler videos - meantime I'll get the basics with a 3018 router - this video gave me some ideas - great as always - here's one for you machine a TPMS lattice structure? (maybe too much for a 4 axis or a isogrid structur4e such as a beaker
Excellent video and project. I've been wanting to make wave pattern carvings on my CNC but haven't really found a good source for creating custom patterns. I'm not much on coding, but I'll check out what you did. Maybe my son, who knows coding better could help. Thanks.
This really caught my attention as you transformed to height map grey scale. I would like to point you to a video I saw recently that explains how to use AI to quickly generate your own bas relief in heightmap/depth map. th-cam.com/video/bu7N7cNFso4/w-d-xo.html
Good quality work, but I am a bit confused on the type of channel you are intending to make. Some are instructional, some are plan showing off what you do without much help. Narration expands many unrelated subjects.
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Wow. 😳😳😳. I started watching you, 10 years ago, when you did the very first aluminum lost foam pour. You were probably 9….I was 50, …and I was SO inspired by this young man, who conducted himself like a proper adult, and giving people proper instruction, on a relatively dangerous operation. And your results were outstanding, for what basically amounted to a child, in a garage.
So, inspired, was I, that I sold my home, in Mexico, and moved back to the US, where I would have better access to the materials and things that i needed, to do, what You were doing.
Then I lost track of you, during covid, and during our relocation, somehow. 🤷♂️
Fast fwd 10 years, from the time that i watched you carve a foam slingshot, and I am back in the US, and have built a proper jewelers shop, in my garage, with forges, furnaces, vacuum casters, mini lathe, etc….its a proper shop, where i make both art and fine jewelry. 🤷♂️ YOU did that….you inspired that 🙏….when I first watched you, I was working out of a 3x5
broom closet that was smaller than the space that you were working out of.
Randomly, this morning, I saw one of your original slingshot videos, which 1000 people have copied, since. But i recognized your voice and instantly hit subscribe. Im so glad that i did, because i wouldn’t recognize your voice, today, you’ve grown from that little boy, into a brilliant young man.
I just wanted to let you know, what a tremendous inspiration you have been, to me, and clearly thousands of others who emulate your work, daily on TH-cam.
Please know, that I, and i’m sure that ALL of your fans, are so proud of you and of your accomplishments.
Thank you for changing my life, and i’m so happy to have reconnected with you.
Now, I have 8 years of videos to catch up on 😳.
Thank you 🙏 so much, and Sincerely yours for more success.
Hey, thank you so much for the heartwarming comment! I'm really pleased that you found one of my videos inspiring and that you've managed to build a workshop and business doing something similar. Hard to believe that it has been 10 years since those videos! Comments like this make it all worth it.
All the best,
TAOW.
So much quality here. Explanation, approach, filmwork. One of the reasons waves are so resonant/captivating/mysterious - they're never still. Their nature is to be in motion. If I can see waves ebb and flow, crest and collide, then diffuse and settle - I get the sense of a larger system and logic at work. Visual proof there are rules governing our world. Breaking the space into a grid and then actuating each point (perpendicular + independently) would allow for this. I've been building interactive sculpture along these lines :)
8:05 that finishing pass timelapse is so satisfying to watch. Especially because it shows how perfectly you indexed your piece and your axes!
I used to watch you about 10 years ago when you were making slingshots and HDPE in your oven. I love that you’re still going! Congrats on your degree too, glad you pursued your dream :)
Been following your work for years mate, and these are just stunning pieces. Given they lay flat, I could easily see a use for the larger ones made of wood being used as a trivet to put a hot pan on. I’d definitely buy one, and even the small metal ones as keyrings would be a good side hustle.
The obvious big choice is a table, and I think a wooden base with a glass top floating just above the surface using standoffs would look amazing.
Other than that, outright wall art. In any case, keep up the great work and the very best of luck as you start your career 😊
Ah yeah that is a good idea, I was thinking the smaller ones would be good for coasters but I like the idea of a trivet.
Once I get the big homemade CNC up and running again I think a table would be a great idea.
Yeah coasters too would be good, although with cups/mugs generally having a non/flat base with a ring to sit on, you may need to make the design a bit more densely packed to make sure the ring of the mug has enough support without wobbling.
Thanks for the video, you always do such neat stuff and I enjoying learning about it! The tip about surface finishes when milling with a ball nose EM was beautifully illustrated!
Every time I see another one of your videos it impresses me man. From the awesome stuff you made back in the day to now. Keep being awesome my guy
Let me know if you have any project ideas for applying these wave carvings to, I hope you enjoyed the video!
If you are interested in the Carvera CNC machine used in this video, it is available from Makera here:
www.makera.com/products/carvera?sca_ref=4180899.U68BiZuo02
(purchasing through this link will give me a small kickback to help support this channel and these projects).
Great work as always! Thanks for sharing your talent and journey with us.
Idea: you could use it on soundscape improving wall and ceiling panels. Maybe design a honeycomblike grid in wood where softer dampening hard foams are fitted, with the wood having a different but complimentary wave pattern to the pattern on the foam boards.
(With 2 cnc’s on your desktop, I’m sure you'll enjoy the effect of acoustic dampening...)
And a less functional idea, you could make a relaxation ornament where water runs over a sloped wave surface, maybe one where different water flow rates cause different paths and thus different sound...
Looks like your using aluminium flatbar which is a bit soft for machining, something like 5083 plate or 6061 should machine nicer. Love your videos, been watching for years btw.
Congrats on finishing your degree and starting the new job!!
I’ve been following you since you were a kid. These videos keep getting cooler and cooler
Thanks for these tests! This is fantastic
It's wild to me that you've already finished your degree, I remember subscribing back when you were in school!
Beautiful work !
Quality work! Congratulations on your degree.
Bro i have been watching you since i was a kid, glad to hear you got a engineering degree!❤
beautiful shots and project
Always makes my day when you drop a video, been a fan for a longtime keep it up
I think the stained plywood with a glass/acrylic top or even clear epoxy would make a cool table or desk.
beautiful! congratulations on your degree! (I did physics to PhD!)
thanks for the link. so many nice projects
congrats on your degree man. been here since like 2016
We have some really large versions of the plywood waves on the wall of the recording studio at the university radio station where I work/volunteer. (CKCU FM, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada)
I've been told that they're for sound scattering.
It is better to use at least two passes with ball milling where the first can be a large stepover and the second finish pass can be the finer stepover. If you finish in one pass then there is variable force or pressure or loading applied to the tool due to the differences in material thickness which always compromises finish consistency.
Almost all materials finish better with some kind of lubrication. I have not tried it but a bit of grease may be just the ticket where you want some lube but also don't want to go spraying oil everywhere.
It would be interesting to use wavy pattern as a case/cooler for raspberry pi.
Why don't you sand and polish the brass ones, could easily get a mirror finish with a small amount of post processing
Good idea I'll give it a go sometime soon
If you make two matching wave paterns with a uniform offset along the normals of the surface of a fixed distance you could layer something like alternating layers of paper mache to test and make little flat billets with the height map pattern project and create an effect similar to blacktail studios epoxy denim table top. I think blue denim like that could look cool with inlayed brass
Brilliant progress 👏👏
I think It would be very nice, if @AlexSteele would donate a nice little piece of Titanium Damacus to let you carve. The layered Damascus would be even more spectacular than the layered plywood, which in itself, is very unique and beautiful.
4:00 its NOT a constant thickness. The steeper the surface, the thinner the walls.
Loved your video and was just interested if you where willing to release the final code that you used to create the stl
u should try adding a flowing contour. have the contour been wavey.
Congrats on completing your degree! I wonder if you could use those machines to carve a wooden or metal housing for a video game controller or something. you could definitely do a faceplate for an xbox controller.
Congrats on completing your Engineering Degree. 👏
This is by far the best video on the Carvera that I've seen, and I've watched a lot.
Designing one large wave piece that is split up into multiple acrylic blocks could look cool as tiles in a bathroom wall.
What do you think the learning curve is like with these machines? Do they provide some sort of starting point for feeds and speeds based on different materials, or do you have to figure all that out yourself?
Cheers! Learning curve with these machines was quite straightforward, I think they're pretty forgiving and the setup on the control software is very easy.
There's also a feeds and speeds guide in the booklet with the machine, and on fusion 360 they have defaults that you can select which is a good starting point
I feel like they’d make cool molds for chocolate or dies for stamping sheet metal
The type of aluminum grade makes a difference to how it cuts.
Ordered a Carvera Air of one your eariler videos - meantime I'll get the basics with a 3018 router - this video gave me some ideas - great as always - here's one for you machine a TPMS lattice structure? (maybe too much for a 4 axis or a isogrid structur4e such as a beaker
Nice one, you will love the machine I think
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Excellent video and project. I've been wanting to make wave pattern carvings on my CNC but haven't really found a good source for creating custom patterns. I'm not much on coding, but I'll check out what you did. Maybe my son, who knows coding better could help. Thanks.
Very nice
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Was your lens in position(s) that people's eyeballs couldn't be?
the art of waves
4:42 the thickness is not constant!!! Its a constant vertical height, but not the thickness.
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Nice work!! I love it. Do you plan to share the code to generate the 3D waveforms? Thank you!
It is found in the description 😅
Thanks, yeah more than happy to share the code if people are interested! It is not good quality code at all though haha
Send me an email and I can send you the python file :)
@@taow Hello, I sent you an email. Have you received it?😀
i think single flute endmills are much better at cutting aluminium
2:02 my migraines be like lol...
great video you could make some and sell them
Yeah might set that up in the future
This really caught my attention as you transformed to height map grey scale. I would like to point you to a video I saw recently that explains how to use AI to quickly generate your own bas relief in heightmap/depth map. th-cam.com/video/bu7N7cNFso4/w-d-xo.html
i want the old TAOW back that was making interesting projects...
What sort of thing would you be interested in watching?
Got some time for some more ambitious projects over summer now
@@taow you have all the tools now, i would love to see you make some kind of new weapon or improving the ones you made previously...
Good quality work, but I am a bit confused on the type of channel you are intending to make. Some are instructional, some are plan showing off what you do without much help. Narration expands many unrelated subjects.