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Fixed this mortise door lock yesterday. The mechanism design was very cool to see when I opened it. It needed a new spring.
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Jessica Rosenkrantz
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06artist, designer, programmer, etc. Co-founder of Nervous System, a generative design studio that plays w/ code, science & digifab
http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com
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I finally put one of my Puzzle Cell Lamps in my bedroom v
Of course, I also photographed mushrooms and lichen!
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We've just made our largest custom jigsaw puzzle yet with ~4000 wood pieces! This is going to be insanely difficult to assemble
We visited the Museum of the Earth and saw an exhibit of glass sea creatures made by the Blaschkas: jellyfish, sea slugs, octopuses, hydrozoans, worms, anemones, and more
We’ve been experimenting with the transparency toolkit from HeyGears to create optically clear models of radiolarians, microscopic single-celled marine organisms that build intricate glass skeletons with stunning geometric complexity.
We’ve been designing and printing radiolarians in transparent resin for a while, but this is the first time we’ve been able to make them truly clear.
(note: Printer and materials provided by HeyGears. All opinions are our own.)
Exciting update about our sculpture at MIT, a robin has built a nest in it! And it's having babies!
Excited to finally announce we are collaborating with scientists to create a 3D bioprinted liver with an award from ARPA-H https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9970
The optical clarity of these prints is pretty amazing. Model on the left was printed in standard transparent resin vs the right was printed in HeyGears PAT10 + sprayed with g115 clear coat
Two of our sculptures are on display at the Hortus Arboretum for the next year. If you find yourself in the Hudson Valley, please stop by!
Big fox tried to nab my guinea fowl today. Don’t think he expected them to fly up into a tree and escape
Sculpture go down
Testing out dyeing acrylic 3D prints using acid dye. It works great and achieves translucent colors in seconds
With the rising cost of silver, I’m transitioning most of my stainless pendants to stainless steel chains. It gave me an excuse to spend a nice afternoon re-photographing them.
Our best selling puzzle is also our hardest puzzle. The Earth Infinity Puzzle is based on an icosahedral projection and has the topology of a sphere. This results in the puzzle being reconfigurable, with no edges and no fixed shape
Blog post: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=8293
Shop: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product.php?code=368
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There are so many cool invertebrates lurking in this intricate image: nudibranch, Christmas tree worm, mantis shrimp, crab, sponge, coral, all manner of plankton, octopuses, clam, jellies. It's perfect art for a BIG puzzle so we made it a big one: 436 pieces https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product.php?code=446
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When we make a big puzzle we can play more games with the puzzle cut. For Ocean Tapestry, we split the image into two types of pieces: Coral-cut for the reef and Wave-cut for the the open water. The color cut edge can make things more tricky for assembly
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Our puzzles are made from start to finish in our workshop and the Catskills. The pieces are lasercut from plywood and then the artwork is printed directly onto the wood using a UV printer.
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Cut in our Coral style, this puzzle contains 141 wooden pieces, including 7 whimsies shaped like bioluminescent and biofluorescent life: squid, mushrooms, jellyfish, anglerfish, a hawksbill sea turtle, and a scorpion (the new mushroom piece is so cute) #sciArt
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@Oaktag@infosec.exchange @lemeteore@mastodon.social site was getting attacked last night. It’s back up now. We’ve had a lot of issues in the last week with bots
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@henryseg@mathstodon.xyz we used a heygears reflex pro 2.0 (which we recently received free for testing). have printed similiar on formlabs form 3
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The Ocean Tapestry Puzzle features the artwork Masquerade by @franzanth which I have loved for many years. I'm so excited to turn this into a puzzle https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product.php?code=446
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the Jellyfish Bloom puzzle has 243-piece wooden pieces and includes 13 sea-themed whimsies. It is cut in our flowing Coral style
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@noondlyt@hellions.cloud thank you!
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@lemeteore@mastodon.social back story in this blog post https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9493
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@dusepo@toot.dusepo.co.uk yes! They aren’t closely related. American robins are much larger birds
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@amanda@couch.beerriot.com thank you!
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@amanda@couch.beerriot.com it’s in the interior courtyard of N52. It’s a little tricky to access the courtyard but it can be seen from the windows of the undergrad design shops on the third floor
@Infoseepage@mastodon.social nice they are pretty intricate. did you need many connection points for something like the snowflake?
@Infoseepage@mastodon.social I haven't done it myself. I'd like to try. How complex were the models you were electroplating?
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@bathsheba@mathstodon.xyz they have gotten quite good. still have failures sometimes due to support issues
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social there seem to be beam clamps for this purpose. I’ll look into the appropriate type