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StenciLaser – How to cut solder paste stencils on the Xtool

After my initial success with cutting metal stencils on the xtool F1 ultra, I realized that the re-ordering and careful setup of the stencil by hand would really put a damper on my stencil making enthusiasm. Having to re-order hundreds of vector paths by hand is time consuming, and its not easy to visualize and…

PCB Stencils (or tiny metal parts) on the Xtool

Lately I have gotten access to an xtool F1 Ultra. One of the advantages of this laser is its ability to ablate (I wont say cut) metal. I’ve seen videos of people making pcb solder paster stencils, or cutting really thin metal on similar fiber lasers, and I wanted to try too. All of this…

Lingonberry – First Leaf!

UnbeLEAFable! This is a tiny leaf growing from a callus culture, produced from a tiny cutting harvested from the wild. This is exactly what I expected (and hoped) would happen with this project. In a few more months, I hope to have rooted plantlets that I can transfer to normal soil media for hardening! Once…

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