Hello there! You've reached the portfolio-ish site of Ben Leduc-Mills. I like making, in many forms -- through music, woodworking, lasers, electronics, code, Lego, 3d printing, e-textiles, you name it. This website captures some of my career from interaction design, rapid prototyping & digital fabrication, open source hardware, software engineering, user research, and of course, AI.
Yes, I use AI everyday. For code, for design, and for research. No, I didn't use it for this website.
Laser Art Code
Below is some code I wrote up to make fun shapes to laser etch. It uses an new version of the convex hull library I’ve been writing called newhull (which I will release shortly), as well as the pdf export library that comes with processing. It provides an object class that sets a convex hull with inputs for number of points, minimum and maximum on each axis (x, y, and z) and stroke weight. It produces something like this (which you can export to .pdf, then open with Inkscape or Illustrator, save to .svg and send to the laser cutter).
Code Here: