I'm working on a new synthesizer module for my rig called a 'Klee' sequencer. It is funny how sometimes you discover someone is doing the exact same thing as you! AdaFruit sells Hackerspace passports if you need one.īrian Published on 4 April 2012 Author brian Categories hackerspaces, inkscape, laser Tags laser, stamp Leave a comment on LVL1’s Hackerspace Passport Stamp is here! Using Inkscape for front panel layouts and PCBs 1 Today, as I wrote the post, I saw that Becky Stern from AdaFruit posted an excellent 'how to' on stamp making. I used a stamp pad from office depot which worked well and Jon was able to stamp his passport for the first time! I also made another stamp with the Lady Ada graphic from Adafruit. Interestingly, the handle came from the Louisville Slugger Museum and it is a scrap from when a baseball bat is cut out on their lathe. Finally I hot melt glued a handle onto the stamp. I used double stick tape to tape the rubber onto the plywood backing. I also cut a wooden back for the rubber out of some 1/8" baltic birch plywood scrap I had laying around. I tried to cut the rubber around the image, but the rubber does not cut well at all. If you are reading this post and do not have a laser, check out Full Spectrum, they are a real good value for your money and highly recommended.įor the laser settings, I raster printed the image using 50% speed and 100% power.
The Full Spectrum Engineering interface to driving the laser is pretty darned good. The letters have to be in mirror image or it will not stamp correctly. I then imported it into Inkscape where I mirrored the image. I removed the blue background and cleaned it up a bit using Gimp. To laser the image, I took the original image and made it black and white. It smells like burning rubber from a car. Even though it is low-odor you can still smell it. I used laserable rubber for this project. It is the Plenary Gear logo at the top left of this page. I used Chris Cprek's LVL1 logo image for the stamp. Last night I made LVL1's hackerspace passport using our Full Spectrum Engineering laser.
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