New Luna Park Photos By Raymond Adams

Raymond Adams (http://www.raymondadams.net/) is a photographer friend who I met out in Coney Island. He’s been shooting in the neighborhood for while now and was a Kickstarter backer of Coney Island Scan-A-Rama. He recently came out to meet me in Coney and shot some nice portraits of me in the installation of Luna Park at the […]

The Helter Skelter

Its not just a Beatles song… the Helter Skelter was a slide ride at Thompson & Dundy’s Luna Park in Coney Island from about 1907-1915. Its the next part of the model I will be 3D printing to tie together the two pieces of boardwalk I have already completed. I’m starting to grapple with how […]

Thompson & Dundy’s Luna Park Rises Again!

It seems like I’ve been working on this for an eternity… I have finally installed the new tower in the Coney Island Museum! Yesterday I sanded it and glued on the remaining bits of moulding. The light was failing as a snapped off some pictures but I’m pleased.

Luna Park’s Electric Tower, 3D Printed

I began work on a newer, more detailed sculpt of Luna Park’s Electric Tower last summer, completing the digital sculpt in September, but its taken a while to get it printed and now its finally assembled. There’s some sanding and a few decorative corbels left to glue on but I hope to install it in the […]

Saturday Night Gluing Party

The large Luna Part Electric Tower is being glued! I found I need two parts reprinted but here it is… All 19 layers of it – 118 3D prints plus trimming details. 3 months worth of work. I can hardly wait to see it assembled!

Season’s Greetings from Coney Island Scan-A-Rama, Yale Exhibit and more!

Happy Holidays! Its been a while since I’ve updated here, but I have not been slacking off! As many of you may know I left my job of seventeen years last May and have been hard at work starting my own business around 3D design and printing. Well the business will officially be up and […]

My Makerfaire Lecture: Recreating Historic Coney Island, One Layer at a Time

My lecture from World Makerfaire New York has just gone live- Watch it on YouTube as I talk about my project and the history of technology as entertainment:

Scan-A-Rama 3D’s Luna Park: “Best in Class” at World Makerfaire New York 2014!

The dust is settling after our triumphant show at the 2014 World Makerfaire New York! It’s been quite a week. Here’s some highlights of the last few days:

World Makerfaire New York

Come see us this weekend at World MakerFaire New York, Scan-A-Rama 3-D and 3-D printed Luna Park will be in the lower level of the New York Hall of Science all weekend!

A Boxfull of People headed to #Makerfaire!

This box contains over 300 3D Printed portraits of people for the 3D Printed Luna Park exhibit. I better not lose it! Hope to see you at World Makerfaire New York this weekend! And this is the whole Makerfaire Crew scanned by me last year. Now that’s a Mini Makerfaire!