Unpackaged her this week, and today finally got to start making! I have some past experience with an Epilog at a maker space, but it’s been quite a while, and so had to get through the first chunk of my learning curve today re: file set up, starting to play with different materials, etc.
Had fun making plant labels-- I’ve done them before out of wood (using bulk box of untreated whitewood labels from greenhouse supply company), but thought I’d see what I could do with what I had around. They really don’t need to be permanent, and I find it quite helpful to have some up to date info on them, because I inevitably lose my sheet of paper of what was planted when, et al. I love mat board as a pretty sturdy and readily-available free/used/cheap medium. It was sunny in Michigan and 40, so much warmer and a great day to do a first planting of cool weather crops in my little hoophouse. I experimented with both mat board and cardboard (tried two different settings). No masking, as I’m fine with some burn marks-- they’re going to get dirty anyway. The mat board did better of course, but cardboard wasn’t half bad-- this was thicker corrugated so it flops a bit when you try to stick it into the ground-- might be better to put it on a skewer-- then the skewer is what sticks into the ground.
Also, designed some honeycomb earrings that I printed on the Proofgrade maple hardwood, as well as a undefined-use honey-comb shaped thing as an experiment.
Downloaded, printed, and assembled an OpenDesk chair that I scaled down from CNC and human size, and now making adjustments on the design that I think will improve it and taking away elements like the drill holes. Rubber-bands were being temporarily used as clamps. Fun to see the great furniture we can adapt to laser scale.
Thanks! I love having Latin/scientific names in particular-- I know most of them now but it’s a good reminder. But, I often have really old seed that I try to germinate, and so to keep track of what year the seed is from is helpful. After a while if it doesn’t germinate, time to plant something else in that spot. I think it’ll be fun to compare the anticipated harvest date with actual, and to manually mark down the date first seedlings emerge.
not sure what growing zone you’re in, but with very simple and cheap season extension even in northern climes (michigan) we can grow much of the year-- contrary to popular belief.
Zone 6 but we get some wicked cold - spent weeks never getting out of the single digits (F) this winter. No sun so expensive to supplementally heat a small greenhouse. (And as the non-vegetarian in the house, hard to get motivated without the chance of prime beef growing in there…the wife on the other hand )
great job.
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