SGVHAK Meeting / Informal Intro to Inkscape and laser cutting

Join us to show off your new toys or work on your projects. Come to join like minded hardware hackers and learn from each other. This meeting tends to be very social.

Mic will do some knife sharpening. This is a great opportunity to learn how to take care of your blades and keep them sharp.
We may have a sewing project involving a dessicant packets to make a cooling pad.
We will also give an informal introduction to Inkscape (https://inkscape.org), an open source vector graphics editor. We use Inkscape to design and layout laser cutting parts. We will go over the basic operations required to create laser cut object, ie drawing basic geometric shapes,creating curves, deleting and creating path, and etc. Tux-Lab made the Hackaday soldering boards. We're planning on making a HAK version of the soldering boards with a larger surface area, updated design and custom logo. It will be cut out of birch plywood on a CNC router, laser-engraved, and finished with polycrylic. If you're interested in going home with one of your own, it will cost $20 and your own sweat and creativity, i.e., you can design your own board and/or logo and do the sanding and finishing yourself. The money goes towards material costs and the SGVHAK reserve funds*. The satisfaction is all yours.
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• We don't charge a membership fee, so our funds come from donations and the occasional fundraising effort.