Our new cyberpal Jake von Slatt (whom I profile in an upcoming MAKE) has moved from Electrolytic Etching, which we covered a while back, to Electrolytic Machining (i.e. instead of just etching images onto the surface, etching all the way through the brass). He’s put up a two-part tutorial detailing the process, first trying his hand at a three-layer “clockwork trilobite” (which turned out looking a little like the Antikythera Mechanism), then trying to make individual parts using a thinner brass stock.
Herr von Slatt is also responsible for sending Boing Boing the link to the Flickr set for jonny5rd’s awesome retro-chic Persistence of Vision (POV) viewer, built from a US$5 POV toy, an X-Acto knife case, and a few other misc parts. Very cool.
