Just because tried sublimating onto wood that we use for the laser cutter (birch plywood) 1st one came out pretty well yesterday, so tried more today today was at 395 F and 60 seconds, yesterday was less…not sure what though today’s temp/time burned the wood a little, but colors were deeper the difficult part of… Read more »

Did my first set of printable stickers. The stickers I bought were Koala Printable Clear Sticker Paper (ONLY for LASER Printer) 20 for $10 On our large printer/scanner/copier the paper setting was “thick 3″ because this paper is 230 gsm. The paper is placed in the bypass tray upside down. The usable dimensions of a… Read more »

I am exploring ideas about photobooth and DIY stickers. So it was finally time to look at Print & Cut with the Cricut (for stickers). It worked fine with both SVG & PNG If you just Print and Cut an image, it will cut out all the black lines. Which is represented by the black… Read more »

The Glowforge for the van is on a high density plastic utility cart. A couple of the legs cracked and I fixed them with some flat iron. One of the bolts gets in the way of the dryer vent exhaust and it has been ripping it. So I decided to create an exhaust flange/adapter to… Read more »

I found these mini vertical axis wind turbine generators… (amazon link) and I wanted to add a hand crank option. So I have been going through iterations in Tinkercad. I made a file with the hub and the L shape inserts separately so I could manipulate them more easily in following iterations. I printed the… Read more »

The world is abuzz with talk about Artificial Intelligence. So is the World of Education. Hopefully we are getting out in front of this leap in technology so we don’t get run over by it. I have started researching it and there is A GREAT DEAL of information about AI because it is so widespread… Read more »

This past year, I was working with Lakeview Elementary School after school STEM club and we usually went on a trail walk, with the idea of creating new signs for it. We had the students do some mapping and sketching of some ideas for signs and locations of signs. I finally got back to working… Read more »

We had the opportunity to have a #MakerSpace at the Crawford County 4H Fair for a day. We set up multiple stations for kids, parents & grandparents to see, explore, create, talk about. This was inside and not everyone knew we were inside, but many came and looked at things, tried some out, had conversations… Read more »

I got to spend the last day of school at Helmsburg Elementary. Seniors come back for some festivities, then the elementary has a fun learning day (shouldnt they all be????). The classes rotated every 20 minutes through a variety of stations. I was with the STEM teacher. We did different things with different ages. The… Read more »

I finally got to spend a whole day with a STEM Coordinator (one of their hats) from a school in the region. We talked about STEM/Maker ideas for them. We also spent a good amount of time getting them comfortable with their XTool laser and Cricut. They even made a retirement present for a colleague…. Read more »