CNC Specular Holograms, STL to SVG tool, LowRider3 diamond engraving via EstlCam
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 Published On Dec 15, 2023

How to CNC Specular Holograms guide/tutorial. Please comment if you're interested in using a FREE app for converting .STL to .SVG regular line image, and/or Hologram images? Comments and interest from you/viewers will help me figure out how much time to put into improving the app.

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Source code at https://github.com/aaronse/hz-scratch...

Parts
- RDZ Diamond Engraver, 90 deg tip, spring loaded, for CNC.
https://amzn.to/41lyUb1 (affiliate link)
- Drag Knife / Vinyl Cutter
https://www.v1e.com/products/drag-kni...
- Engraver mount/adaptor. Created and shared .STL model for V1E LowRider 3 Pen / Drag knife / Drag Bit at https://www.printables.com/model/4195...
- Created CNC toolpath GCODE using https://www.EstlCam.de
- CNC, am using a V1 Engineering LowRider3, see https://www.v1e.com/collections/lowri...

More details/context available at https://forum.v1e.com/t/drag-knife-an..., consider checking out the topic, chat, ask questions and share stuff you're making.

Background and Credits
First learned about Specular Holograms from Steve Mould's video. Ended up curious and going down the rabbit hole that ended up here.

- Steve Mould, "Handmade holograms are really weird"
   • Handmade holograms are really weird  
- Physics Girl, How 3D holograms work
   • How 3D holograms work  
- Mike Miller's ScratchHologram app
https://github.com/mymikemiller/scrat...
- Shared more links/info in the V1E forum.

2023/12/15 TODO: Adding link to holozens GitHub code/app in a few days after cleaning up embarrassing mess. Will be on https://github.com/aaronse

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