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Avocado

Thanks to member Sean and his successful germination project we now have two Avocado trees! I’ve also got holy basil, sweet basil, dark basil, Italian basil and stuff like that on the go. So let me know if you want to start some sprouts or have a pot to bring some home!

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InessaFest

At last nights meetup there were a lot of electronics projects plus I brought out my flexographic printing project.

I did a presentation on the software toolchain I’m using for my flexographic printing project.

I made some plates for a portrait for Inessa but they came out warped. Arnold put them in the oven at 325 stacked between plates of aluminum and a 10lb ballast and they came out perfect.

Everyone got a go at it.

Here are the prints of Inessa.

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Laser

We’ve got a house laser (and a Community “A” below). These are lower power solid state lasers. Great for cutting light material and engraving on may materials. They’re quiet but make lots of fumes.

To install, always keep the laser itself unplugged for safety. That means unplug the laser module from the controller so it can’t fire up by accident.

Install Benbox software. It’s fairly self explanatory but you can find lots of youtube video and Web pages explaining how to use it.

Other software may work.

 

Here’s our first “Community A” machine.