Digitalfire
Products
We teach you how to employ ceramic chemistry and physical testing to
understand and control your glazes and clay bodies.
We provide the
software and eBook tools to make it easier and within the reach of anyone.
Magic of Fire II book
This book expounds our philosophy about stepping off the textbook recipe treadmill and learning to understand recipes, control them, be more demanding about the way they work and fire and solve all kinds of problems that are normally completely beyond the average potter or technician. It will help you to develop a ‘complete quality conscience’ and a sense of accountability for the technical integrity of your ware. It will get you excited and open up a whole new world of options if you hunger to know ‘why’?
In many ways this goes in the opposite direction of both the ceramic industry and pottery community promoting an alternative to the 'know-only-what-you-need-to-know', 'supplier-dependant', and ‘recipe trafficking’ cultures and the easy-fix mentality they foster. More than any other book, it deals in great detail with the application of computers to ceramics. The Magic of Fire shows you how to use FORESIGHT and INSIGHT to solve glaze problems and manage related information; it recognizes that the computer offers new ways of doing things and new viewpoints; not just ways to automate the old. This book also contains clay body testing and formulation information that you will find no where else.
INSIGHT for Windows/Macintosh OS9 and OSX/Linux
This is the interactive ceramic chemistry calculator that started it all, this is the standard. It was first released in 1979 for the Radio Shack model 1 computer. It is now taught in hundreds of schools and universities around the world and used by many thousands of companies and individuals in all areas of ceramic manufacture and craft. No other company focuses on ceramic chemistry and promotes it like we do.
FORESIGHT Server Ceramic Lab Database System
It is a ceramic lab and library database system that runs as a web server on a computer in your office or on the internet. You interact with it using only your web browser to find, create, enter, edit and report physical testing and related information. We offer complete services to install it, help you develop a quality control and product development system.
Ceramic Chemistry Worksheet
An Excel compatible file. It can be used to do ceramic chemistry calculations and is a good tool to learn or teach the principles of how the calculations are done.
Books on Understanding Glazes
You can get some of these in eBook format right now!
