As some of you may have noticed, there is a giant new laser cutter at the shop! Since my interests are less acrylic and wood and more fabric and yarn, I decided to ask Tyler to laser cut some leaves out of felt for use in a fun fall wreath. Here is how I did it:
I laser cut a box for our business cards because they kept falling off the lip of the white board. I also made a box for our pamphlets as they too kept falling.
The Post-Its on the the Kandan Board also kept falling off the white board. So I laser cut some boxes to keep the Post-Its from falling.
After laser cutting the boxes, I realized that the word’s “Shastas”, “Doing”, and “Done” on the Kanban Board would look much better if they were laser cut. I also realized that “Borrowed” would also look great if it was laser cut.
I have a great time making these upgrades to the white board!
Full Spectrum, the manufacturer of the laser cutter at Makers Local 256, held a competition for cool things made with with a laser cutter. Phil Showers submitted Scott’s robotic arm design, and won the compeition for August 2012!
Thanks to this submission, the laser cutter at the make shop will be receiving a replacement bulb, which will allow our laser cutter to cut things faster, having to make less passes with the beam.
Good job guys!
Saturday I decided to laser etch some of my electronics. I etched the word “GEEK” into my laptop and hard drive. Thanks to MOG for inspiring me to etch the electronics and for helping me with GIMP. I love the way they turned out! Here of some pics:
Members of Makers Local 256 attended Huntsville’s TEDx this past Sunday. As part of running the TEDx Lab we laser engraved our logo as well as the TEDx log onto some fig newtons.
More pictures of the event are available on facebook.