For this assignment we actually had to make three different projects. A notebook in which the cover had to have something completely cut out (in my case it was the lenses from the glasses). A water bottle with something engraved into it. For mine I choose a University of Wisconsin Logo. For that is the school I really hope to get into being a current senior. I wanted to show some spirit. And finally we needed to go online to a website called "thingiverse" where we picked out a laser cut out idea someone had created and put it together for ourselves. I choose to make a police box. It looked pretty cute so I thought what the heck why not.
Notebook
For this assignment I went with the cute black and white glasses pattern as seen below. I had to put it into illustrator and then go through and outline the middle glasses frame with red so the middle of them would cut out in order to get the points. Then once that was finished I put it onto the flash drive and sent it through the printer onto a blue colored cardboard. Final product seen below. Then I needed to cut and size blank white paper to fit into the notebook. After that I cute a spiral to fit the size of the notebook and sent it through. And vwala! A wonderful notebook ready to sit on a desk for all of eternity.
pattern idea
Pattern printed
Water bottle assignment
I choose to do a University of Wisconsin Madison logo to print onto my bottle. In order to do that I had to transfer the image onto Adobe illustrator and then make it black and white (so it would engrave and not cut all the way through) then I sent it onto a flash drive and set it up to the laser cutter. I needed to change the settings to an aluminum cut as well as set it to a rotary jig since what I was printing on wasn't flat. Then I pushed go and the machine did the work. In about 7 minutes I had a fully printed water bottle ready for drinking!! As seen below.
Final product for both :)
water bottle on the machine
Laser cut random doodad
For this assignment I had to pick someone's design from the website "thingiverse" and print and put it together myself. I choose a police box. I had to download it onto my computer then open it onto adobe illustrator. Then I loaded it onto a flash drive and then set it up to the laser. Then using a piece of cardboard I pushed go and it printed my wonderful design. Then I spent a tedious amount of time putting it together like a boss.
Laser blueprints things
What it should look like (fingers crossed)
What it ended up looking like
takeaway
thought it was a lot of assignments neither of them were that hard. I think I know how to loose the laser a lot better now.