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 built this table for my sister-in-law back in 2016. She had just moved into her first home and asked if I would could maybe build a small farmhouse style table.

At this point I was relatively new to the hobby and had never built a proper piece of furniture that would function as a center piece for a room. She also did not have much money to spend so I came up with a plan to use some old barn wood I had scrounged up for the legs and construction lumber for the top.

There is a lot of internet hate out there for construction lumber projects, but I think if done right they can be an affordable option for folks. It's been 7 years now and this still sits in her dining room getting daily use. It has zero cupping, or wobble, and has remained as sturdy as the day I made it.

Being pine it is very soft wood and so it has its share of dings and scratches, but because it was made to look distressed from the beginning that just adds to it.

I picked the

Edit: Bonus blooper

Picked up some walnut, cherry, and maple with the idea of making some end grain cutting boards for people for Christmas

Cut to rough lengths

Jointed and planed to square up the lumber

Cutting the boards into strips

Figuring out patters for the initial glue up

Initial glue up

Scraping off the dried glue and prepping for another trip to the planer

Getting ready for the second round of cutting

Figuring out the layout for the crosscut pieces for the second glue up

Second glue up

Glued dry now to the router table to round the edges so they don't blow out when I run them through the planer ![](https://i.img

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.

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.

Laser cutter action:

I tried to give it an aged rock/stone app

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.

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.

Laser cutter action:

I tried to give it an aged rock/stone appeara

I was attempting to build a Kentucky stick chair, but accidentally bought too stiff of wire so had to pivot to a more rigid design. The end result is a not so comfortable folding chair. It works for me because I am tall and my legs clear the seat and touch the ground without issue. Not the case for my wife.

Here is what it was supposed to look like. Because the wire I used was too stiff I could not get the chair to sinch together so had to add spacers.

This chair is made from a couple cedar deck planks. They were first cut into strips

Strips cut to size for the back, middle,seat

Jig made to quickly make repeat holes for the hardware

Holes done

Assembly begins

Back to the drawin

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.

I also made a caddy to hold the coasters ![](https://lazysoci.al/a

cross-posted from laser cutting community [email protected] : https://lemm.ee/post/896795

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

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 ![](https://lazysoci.al/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsrmVBoQ.

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

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.

I have been a hobby woodworker for about a decade now, and this thing is by far the most fun I have in the shop. Unlike building a big piece of furniture that can take me weeks, I usually can come up with an idea and be assembling things within a few hours.

I am posting this for people wondering what you get when you order a $350 CO2 laser cutter off eBay. I purchased this 2 years ago and have had no issues. All of my woodworking project posts that involve a laser cutter are using this machine, although I have upgraded/modded the machine since purchase

K40 is name for this generic Chinese laser cutter platform. There are lots of sellers under lots of names, but they are all basically the same thing.

There are some American resellers, like Omtech that you can buys these machines from and they will offer upgrades and tech support.

Here was the original posting, doesn't look like this seller is around anymore

Shipped from a warehouse in Cali

This is my go-to site when my projects require any type of box. You put the dimensions in and it spits out a cut file.

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.

For people wondering what you get when you order a $350 laser cutter off eBay. I purchased this 2 years ago and have had no issues. All of my project posts are using this machine, although I have upgraded/modded the machine since purchase

Here was the original posting, doesn't look like this sellar is around anymore

Shipped from a warehouse in California so I didn't have to do any import stuff

Double boxed with unformed styrofoam

Inside stuffed with the "accessories" which were mostly tossed in the garbage, and some loose foam.

Cutting bed a

I had an open wall and a sheet of cheap 3/4inch plywood sitting around so I made a French cleat wall.

If you are not familiar with the system, the slats on the wall have the top edge cut at a 45 degree angle and the shelving/storage items have an opposite angle so they slide right into the grooves.

More pics of my messy shop

I had an open wall and a sheet of cheap 3/4inch plywood sitting around so I made a French cleat wall.

If you are not familiar with the system, the slats on the wall have the top edge cut at a 45 degree angle and the shelving/storage items have an opposite angle so they slide right into the grooves.

More pics of my messy shop

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.

cross-posted from Laser Cutting Community: https://lemm.ee/post/739699

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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.