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This is 3mm cast acrylic.

The design started with CardBox from Boxes.py

I made a few modifications, such as improving the lid design and adding holes to make it easier to access cards.

A friend of mine asked if I could make something for his sister who operates a local cat foster program. These follow the same design I used when I made these for my own sisters (previous post) only I did not make a frame for this one.

Here you can see the four layers of 3mm plywood I cut out on my laser cutter !

Sanded and stacked together !

Stained and glued together !

Spray polyurethane added !

I had a gap in the wall from where an old monitor mount used to be attached so wanted to make something to cover it up.

The LEDs are controlled by an ESP8622 running WLED, monitor data from the PC comes from Hyperion software. It can be set to a constant color, dozens of set themes, or match the color output of whatever is on my monitor.

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The microcontroller sits under the desk and receives constant power, it is the wired to a button on my desk to turn on/off power to the LEDs. !

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Laser cutter action: !

I tried to give it an aged rock/stone appearance using some textured spray paint which actually turned out pretty well. I think some of that doesn't come across well in the photos, but in person it looks good (to me anyway).

LEDs changing color https://imgur.com/a/8CmepDk

How to get WLED running: https://tynick.com/blog/11-03-2019/getting-started-with-wled-on-esp8266/

More info about Hyperion https://docs.hyperion-project.org/en/user/leddevices/

Had some left over red acrylic so made a simple support for my GPU

I have a family member that is big into Weber charcoal grills, and each year he and all the other grilling enthusiasts from around the country get together for their annual meet up.

To commerate his last meet up I made him a set of slate coasters featuring Topper, the original logo for Weber grills.

Blank slate coasters purchased off Amazon. I think they come out to about $1 per coaster. The process is pretty simple. I put masking tape down on the bed of the laser then lightly etch a a few circles so that I can quickly center the blank coasters in my machine for batch etching.

You will notice some are darker than others, that is because I spray a light coat of poly which makes the etching pop. The darker ones already have been sprayed.

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I also made a caddy to hold the coasters !

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This was my first real dive into Arduino and multiple button mapping. It took a significant amount of trouble shooting and learning the software to get things to map to the computer action.

Gif of the action https://imgur.com/a/XI9KTeH

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Prototype 1:Started this project before I had a laser cutter and had tried to just drill through acrylic. It didn't work well, but it held my buttons during testing !

Prototype 2 Still no laser cutter but I cut out using plywood worked much better for manually cutting out the holes !

Prototype 3 Much better !

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I had bought a big box of bulk Pokemon cards off of eBay and had been giving the kids a few each time they did their chores or as positive reinforcement when the did something good.

I wanted to find a way to make it more fun so came up with this prize wheel. Instead of just giving them two cards from the pile they get to spin the wheel and the corresponding prize. Usually just let's them look at a few cards and pick the one they want vs random getting one.

There were some "rare" cards too which they had a chance to win.

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I am not really convinced our house plants need labeling, but my wife asked for these so I made them! Since COVID she has gotten really into house plants, and every room is packed now with greenery which is great!

These are super easy to make and only take a minute to cut out. I have also used acrylic to make outdoor vegetable garden identifiers.

Made from 10 layers of 3mm Baltic Birch plywood. This was a gift for my mother who has two pugs.

All the layers made this a pretty tedious process, with lots of failed cuts that needed to be redone multiple times. The small bed size of my K40 didn't help

There are small holes on each layer that I fed fishing line through to help with alignment while gluing it all together.

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> The microcontroller that runs the weather station is an ESP8266 and a 2.4 inch touch screen. The button turns on and off the LED backlight on the screen. > > Inside the base is a charging station that powers the weather display, 2x USB C and the galaxy 4 watch base. > > The base is made of layers of plywood cut out on my laser cutter. > > Weather station code by Daniel Eichhorn > https://github.com/ThingPulse/esp8266-weather-station-color > ! ! > > Weather info is grabbed from Openweathermap, you can sign up for their free API key > > Source code > https://github.com/ThingPulse/esp8266-weather-station-color/blob/master/esp8266-weather-station-color.ino > > I was using adafruit hardware so used their guide/libraries > https://learn.adafruit.com/wifi-weather-station-with-tft-display > > I had to remove some of their touchscreen calibration code since it seemed to be causing things to get hung up in a loop when turned on. > > I also had to adjust the rotation 180degrees so the ESP attached to the back of the screen was at the bottom instead of the top to fit it in the enclosure. > > I use pin 5 to toggle the LED backlight.

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Cut on my K40

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/586133

! > > Some random build pictures. I didn't do a great job documenting this build. > > I have made a few of these as gifts for cat lovers in the family. The cats are made of three layers of 3mm birch plywood cut out on my laser cutter. > ! > ! > ! > ! > > A few other versions I have made

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