... and suddenly, it's 5 months later! A fresh Circuit Graver article was posted a few days ago along with a video of my talk, so it is time to post a long-overdue update while the machine is on my mind. Since I wasn't scheduled to speak until Sunday and wanted to carve a few boards with community members, I first set the machine up at Supplyframe HQ during the Friday night party to attract a bit of interest. Success!! When I subsequently scouted a spot in the alley next to LACM on Saturday, I found plenty of PCB designers in need of fabrication.

above, delightful soldering tent chaos in the alley next to LACM; below, the Circuit Graver set up and running jobs for friends old and new.

Of course, I neglected to take photos of any of the PCBs I carved during the event, let alone ask permission of the designers to share them. Thankfully everyone sent over *.svg files via email, and several responded with photos and share-approvals when asked a few weeks later. I'm still waiting on a few folks I pinged again, so hopefully this list will grow a bit in the near future! 

@John Thurmond had an interesting design generated using Zoltan Sylvester's meanderpy, a Python module which, well, meanders. It seems to be a great starting point for the kinds of fabulous plotter art that Zoltan sells on Etsy. The file John provided is a pretty simple river-looking thing, and it came out quite nicely in gold-plated FR4:

I sat next to Squidgeefish on Saturday, who was kind enough to make a bit of space for the machine and subsequently had a great PCB ready for the Circuit Graver -- a boost converter add-on for their SAO project. It's a fabulous project, and they pulled together a great write-up of the add-on and boost converter after the conference, including lots of details about the board we made together. Here is an image from that post, after soldering and bring-up; be sure to click through to see others:

I thought it would be neat to make a custom PCB for the badge hacking contest, so I carved a Supercon 8 "S8" logo into a bit of FR4 and lit it up with six blue LEDs from my parts bin. I like that they're from the same reel of parts I used on my badge hack during the first Supercon a decade earlier! Screenshot shamelessly stolen from Hackaday's live feed of the badge ceremony:

Allie Katz has a sweet logo which seemed conducive to carved linework, so we decided to PCB-ify it! The workflow for this one was great, I used Inkscape's bitmap tracing tools on the graphic lifted from their website. It looks so excellent rendered in gold-plated copper: