Weighted Companion Cube

I Built this Weighted Companion Cube to coincide with the release of Portal2. Enjoy

Materials:

Aluminum, Lexan, LED Lights

Dimensions:

L 4 in. / W 4in. / H 4 in.

Fabrication

I came up with this idea to get me back into thinking with portals and to test out the upgrades I did to my homebrew CNC Mill.

The design was laid out in Solidworks, and all the G-Code was generated using the BobCAD plugin. The base part was machined from a solid 3” square cube of Aluminum where all the faces were milled and the inside was hogged out. There’s a bottom plate screwed in place that has a BlinkM/MinM RGB LED inside. The heart inserts are .375” Lexan frosted by the machining and buffing with Scotchbrite.

Baka Mecha

Transforming Motion into Emotion

I am a classically trained Mechanical Engineer who has specialized in designing and building both large and small scale scientific experiments in an R&D environment. I am currently working at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab at the Advanced Light Source, where I design, build and manage experimental systems dealing with X-Rays, femto-second lasers and a plethora of high-tech gizmos.

My Artistic side expresses itself in the form of Kinetic art, both physical and virtual (light and sound giving the impression of motion.) I have displayed pieces at Burning Man as well as at my studio space located at the CaTaCLYsMic MeGaSHEaR RanCh, which also serves as a base for less artistic projects as well.

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