Vinyl cutting
First, I made a neuron vinyl cutout. To do this I searched for sillhouette images of neurons and downloaded the image. Then I imported it to Adobe Illustrator where I selected “outline as sillhouette” so that I could modify parameters such as the line thickness. This was important since I was miniaturizing the neuron sticker, I needed to make the lines thicker to print properly. Then I uploading a png to the mods app which was super user friendly. I made tons of stickers to give to my labmates and friends!
Laser cutting
For this week I started by designing a box with japanese wedge joints with a sliding top. I accidentally deleted the holes for the joints in one cut. I also realized that the corrugation to bend the cardboard needed to be spaced slightly further apart. Fusion had a seizure when I tried to move the small corrugation pattern because there are a lot of elements that are constrained and mirrored. Now have a nice box to store the cage cards from my experimental mice.
I accounted for laser kerf in the design of all laser cut projects.
Another laser cutting project
Sadly, this week my cat at home was passing away. I decided to make a rocking seahorse toy for my cat, which arrived just in time.
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