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# Week 2
## The task this week was twofold: to cut something on the vinyl cutter, and to laser cut a press-fit construction kit.
#### For the vinyl cutter, I took some faces I had doodled and created vector drawings out of them using the Adobe Capture app on my phone. I cut them first as stickers on the vinyl cutter (50g, 2cm/s), then as an iron-on shirt design (which required 150g force at 1.5 cm/s). Here's the final product!
<a href="https://ibb.co/Jvnn4VY"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/X7XXg1n/IMG-7888.jpg" alt="IMG-7888" border="0"></a>
<a href="https://ibb.co/rv0f49k"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/yVPBW20/IMG-3407.jpg" alt="IMG-3407" border="0"></a>
#### For the laser cutting project, I tried to use FreeCad to design some nice interlocking pieces for a relatively free-form construction kit. Unfortunately, I couldn't get FreeCad to export to .dxf or .svg files, and it wouldn't cooperate with programs that could do that for me. Next up I played around with using Kyub. Kyub is a pretty fun way to model cardboard projects in 3D, which are then converted to svg files automatically for you to send to the printer. Unfortunately, this comes with some limitations--kyub projects really only want to be assembled one way, and there isn't nearly as much flexibility in the shape department... Nevertheless I played around with some boxes and curves and built some little blocks. I measured the kerf at 0.17 mm, and cut at 100/100 power and 45 mm/s</p>
<a href="https://ibb.co/WvRNVrp"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/fdTVD3G/IMG-3871.jpg" alt="IMG-3871" border="0"></a>
<a href="https://ibb.co/19sfZts"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/9qw9nkw/IMG-5344.jpg" alt="IMG-5344" border="0"></a>
<img style="position: absolute; TOP:50px; LEFT:650px" src="/Site_Images/FaceforSite.png">
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