# milling pcb's and soldering ## milling ![milling](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/mill.jpg) ![milling](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/mill2.jpg) ![pcb](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/pcb.jpg) ## vinyl cutter experiment i milled a 2mm sheet of acrylic using the outline png. ![acrylic eeprom](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/aceeprom.jpg) ![acrylic eeprom 2](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/aceepromled.jpg) ![acrylic weeding](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/weeding.jpg) ## more vinyl stickers i noticed these charming warning labels decorating the equipment and lab that we were working in and thought it would be be funny to reproduce them using the equipiment the warnings were intended for. ![warning](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/warninginsitu.jpg) ![warnings](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/warning.jpg) i also tried to test the limits of the vinyl cutter by uploading an illustration i made for a board game character. ![wong](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/wongthecook.png) what i didn't bargain for, was the testing of the limits of my patience. it took hours upon hours to weed the image out of the vinyl. ![weeding](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/weedwong1.jpg) ![weeding 2](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/weedwong2.jpg) ![wong final](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.18/Harvard/people/victoria/images/week_02/wong.jpg)