Note Book
I wanted to make a specific cover for my book that related to my life. Due to this is chose to do three of my favorite things. On the front of the cover I had the words "hunting fishing and loving every day" along with images of an arrow, fishing hooks, and a bone collector skull. I then drew up this design on adobe illustrator and printed out the front of my notebook. Then I needed a back cover, so I put in a vector image of the punisher skull because that is also something I love. I then cut it out on the laser and put together my notebook.
Water Bottle
For the water bottle I wanted to do something I enjoyed as the design on the bottle because I plan on using this water bottle and seeing things I enjoy or being reminded of them brings me a smile. So for the front of the water bottle I decided to do a logo of a pheasant flying with lettering around it saying "kick em up, and knock em down" this is a saying referring to pheasant hinting, which if you know me you would know my uncle owns a game farm for pheasant, duck, quail and dove hunting, I have been hunting pheasant since a little kid and enjoy doing it with my family. The back side of the water bottle I wanted to relate to the front so I choose another bird I love to hunt which is ducks. The image on the back reads "waterfowl obsession" with a retriever dog for the image.
Thinigverse
Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. I used this website to find a design file that was cool and that I could cut out on the laser in a 2 dimensional shape that could be pieced together to form a three dimensional shape. I choose a file online that was to create a rocket ship. When I choose the file I made a model out of cardboard but then I realized why not just use acrylic like in the photo on the website. So I used acrylic in the laser and cut out but the thickness of the acrylic didn't match up with the size of my slots on the cutouts so I changed the size so in the end they ended up fitting like a glove. Thingiverse was a cool website with awesome Ideas and Im glad I got to learn about it.
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Extra Project |
I learned how to use the rotational bit which was very cool on how it can detect the shape of the bottle and still engrave perfectly all around without burning through or not engraving. Another thing I improved on was setting up the laser engraver from a illustrator file and being able to problem solve and be creative with my designs. Overall the the laser taught me a lot and I really enjoyed the rotation and learned a lot and had fun with it to although it was a lot of work! its not as easy as it may look.
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