2017-07-26

Overlay Prototype

My incredibly helpful and crafty sister offered to cut a self-adhesive matte-black overlay on her "Cricut" home die-cutting machine from my mechanical drawings. I think it turned out really well.

I need figure out how to adapt this die-cutting technology to include labels for the volume control and USB jack that can be seen in the daylight and back-lit at night.

Here's a couple of shots with the overlay taped in place temporarily.

I found that I needed to rotate the USB jack by 90 degrees after I had the acrylic cut. So the overlay has the cutout properly oriented while the acrylic behind it has the cutout 90 degrees out of phase. I've made a few tweaks to the acrylic and will have a new piece cut soon.

Baby steps... baby steps...