Key Chain
This is the setting where I had to set up everything in order to get the laser to print my key chain. My key chain has a dog and a monkey because those are my two favorite animals.
I had to change some of the settings so the laser knew I was using acrylic. I also had to measure the thickness of the acrylic so the laser would cut through all of it.
I had to line up the acrylic with the laser so the laser didn't miss any acrylic. You barely can see it but in the bottom right corner is the design of my key chain forming. I pressed start and the laser started printing my design.
This is when the laser was designing my key chain right before it started cutting it out.
This is what my key chain ended up looking like after the laser cut it out. I am really glad I chose a dog and monkey because I think it looks great.
Vinyl
First we had to put our names in illustrator so we could print them off on the vinyl cutter.
The vinyl cutter cut it like this. You can really see the name, so we had to remove to outer plastic so we could just see our name.
Once we removed all of the plastic, we put tape over our names on the notebooks and applied pressure on the tape so the letters would stick to the notebook.
Once we were done applying pressure to the letters in out name, we carefully removed the tape and the letters stayed on our notebooks.
Summary
While using illustrator, I learned how to put images into the program and send them to a laser to cut out. I also learned how to print vinyl using illustrator. I thought using illustrator was hard at first, but the more we used it, the easier it became. I had a really fun time using this program.