Left: This is a screenshot taken on Tinkercad of the circuit which I incorporated into my milled object. The circuit is made up of one 9V battery, four 480Ω resistors, three switches, three single color LED's, and one RGB LED. When one of the switches is pressed, the LED attached to that switch is supposed to light up, and simultaneously the RGB LED should light up in the same color as the single color LED.
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Right: This picture was taken half way through the engraving part of my final mill. The entire mill took over an hour to complete due to the intricacy of the design. Furthermore, on the left side of the spoilboard, you can vaguely make out my solder holes which I chose to drill before I started engraving.
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Left: This screenshot was taken from my final illustrator file which includes all of my engravings and solder holes. You can clearly make out the makeshift pads I designed in the top left of the file which act as the positive rail of my circuit. The rest of the white space (unless they are closed shapes) are connected to ground.
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Right: This is a screenshot from BantamTools and represents how the Othermill interprets the illustrator file. For example, the paths that contain no fill but have a stroke weight (all the solder holes) look like white holes meaning that it is a cutout. On the contrary, all the paths that don't have a stroke but do have a fill become an engraving.
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