About me¶

Andri Sæmundsson¶

Andri 3d Scan Mario — 3d scan mixed with an articulated Mario model

I’m Andri, and I reside in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik. I currently work at Fab Lab Reykjavík but I am taking the Fab Academy through the Fab Lab in Akureyri, Iceland. My academic background is in game development and computer science. I moved to Orlando, Florida in 2010 to attend Full Sail University. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Game Art from Full Sail University in 2012, and in 2014 I earned a Master of Science in Game Design from the same institution. After finishing my education in the United States I moved back to Iceland and started developing a game alongside two programmers but when they got paying jobs I realized I needed to learn programming. So, in 2016 I began my journey through Reykjavik University´s computer science program and received my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2020.

I started working at Fab Lab Reykjavik in 2021 and began working on websites and other tasks. I quickly started to learn to use all the equipment and tools and soon I was teaching other people how to use the software and equipment. I have received grants to be able to hold small workshops and classes on the software and tools used in the Fab Lab. In 2022 I took part in the Fab Challenge in Bali and that is when I realized the potential of Fab Labs and got to know the awesome Fab community. As soon as I got back from Bali I started tinkering a lot more in electronics and knew I had to get into the Fab Academy.

Fab Lab Projects before Fab Academy¶

Here are some of the projects I have worked on at Fab Lab Reykjavik.

Vinyl¶

Earthworm Jim was the first project I made at Fab Lab. After a few single layered stickers I made Tom using multiple layers.

Laser¶

The chessboard was my first project made from scratch in the laser. The chesspieces are cut out and stored in the board. I also made this puzzle using plexi and wood.

laser project plexi — Lasercut plexi projects

I created the phonestand and post-it stand in Inkscape.

3d printing¶

I found a model of Megaman online and cut it into pieces and mixed it with an articulated model of Mario I found on Thingiverse. I 3d scanned my self and put my head on the body of Mario.

Megaman NFC — Megaman 3d print with an internal NFC chip

I also put a NFC tag inside Megaman´s head mid-print so when you put your phone on his head the Fab Lab Reykjavik website pops up on your phone.

Casting¶

I lasercut a box in plexiglass with a rastered pattern, I then 3d printed a cylinder for the tealight and put it into the box and poured cement into the box.

ShopBot CNC milling¶

I created this cornhole game using the Shopbot CNC milling machine. I used our digital embroidery machine to sew in the logo, then sewed the bags filled with corn.

ShopBot project — Cornhole board milled on a ShopBot and bags made on an embroidery machine

Electronics¶

This was the first electronics project I made. I had a lot of help from Haflidi a former Fab Academy student. It is a simple board with two LEDs and a button, controlled by an ATtiny45. The ATtiny can be removed and reprogrammed. I used this project in a workshop to teach beginners how to solder onto SMDs

I made this board to try out the WS2812b RGB LEDs, I got it working with my XIAO RP2040 but could not and have not had time to get it to work with an ATtiny. If you have any suggestions or tips on how to get it to work with an ATtiny please let me know.