Intro to the Cutting Machine

Details about the Graphtec Craft Robo Pro small cutting machine

  • Materials:
    • less than .25 mm thickness
    • slightly thicker materials can be cut with multiple passes.
  • Compatible materials:
    • vinyl, paper and paperboard.
  • The max cutting range is 375 mm (width) x 50 m (length).
  • Have your designs ready as an illustrator compatible vector graphic – no raster images.

Recursions

A student asked me how to do recursions (on the first week of ICM!!).

I asked her to go through the first 3 Processing tutorials, make something more simple, and taught her some cool tricks. I forget just how ambitious ITP students can get. But then I kind of went on a tangent and instead of writing the Processing JS tutorial I promised, I made this sketch. It’s a good test to see how well the ProcessingJS plugin works, I guess. If you don’t see anything, even after a couple page refreshes, let me know.

WordPress Basics

Now that you have your WordPress Blog set up, thanks to Steve’s tutorial, let’s make a simple blog post with some text, a photo and a couple of videos. A finished example looks like this.

First, if you’re not logged into your blog, go to:

http://itp.nyu.edu/~YourNetID/YourBlog/wp-admin/

Replace YourNetID with your NetID and YourBlog with the name of the directory you installed WordPress on.

Then login with your username and password.

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