Maker Skills: Vinyl cutting

Always wanted to learn how to use a vinyl cutter? After completing the Maker Skills Course, you're able to work with it in Waag's Fablab.

What are you going to learn?

In this course you will learn how to operate the vinyl cutter at the Fablab. After this course, you are allowed to use the vinyl cutter on Thursdays during the open days of the lab (10-17 hrs, on appointment and depending on availability).

The course consists of:

• How to prepare your file for vinyl cutting
• 
  Working with the Roland GX-24 Desktop Vinyl Cutter
  
• Making stickers and thermovinyl (heat transfer onto fabric, cups and other materials)

For this course you are expected to have a basic knowledge on how to create vector
based files (DXF, SVG, etc.) in your preferred software (Inkscape, Illustrator or any other programme in which you can make vector files). However, if you don’t have this knowledge, we can give you some quick and easy tips on how to turn images into vector
files in Inkscape. Please bring a laptop (with your preferred vector software) and optionally a garment to transfer thermovinyl onto.

Where and when?

The course is given at the Fablab in the Waag on the Nieuwmarkt 4 in Amsterdam on
Friday December 23, 2022 from 14-17 hrs. Future dates to be determined.

For whom?

For makers who are looking for a place to experiment, create and meet like-minded
people. Open source documentation is very important to us, so we expect you to write
your own documentation on the use of the machine. If you can demonstrate that you
know how to use the laser cutter safely, you are allowed to use it. This workshop is not aimed at people looking for commercial production; instead we want to enable local
artists, designers and other creatives to develop open source projects.

Costs

The course is €75,- per person. There’s a capacity of 4-8 people. Materials, coffee and tea are included.

Host or Publisher Waag