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TinkerCad to Lasercutter Demo

This year I'm trying to document my example work to serve as how to and instructional videos. I'm either using Quicktime and iMovie when I'm in more of a time crunch or trying to use Screenflow once our school license if finalized as there is a lot more I can do with that program as I found out in our workshop at the end of last year, but I'll need to spend some time tinkering in order to figure out the functionality more.

Students are using TinkerCAD to design a name tag for their mailboxes. Here's is my demo with a hipster mustache as my overall shape.


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