Cut this today to have at our table this weekend at the Kansas City Maker Faire!!! We have 40 chickens so…
You said Chickens and KC — I too have both Chicken and am in KC but wasn’t going to the maker fair this weekend would like to touch base before hand as I might want to go - as I want to talk with like minded people in the area…
I’m in central Kansas 
What kind of wood is this?
what mods do you have done to your laser? have you converted it to smoothie or arduino?
@Alex_Krause Buckner MO
@Alex_Krause 1/8 hardwood plywood 5$ for 4’/8’ sheet at Hone Depot
@Stephen_Sedgwick still running original hardware and laserdrw
@Stephen_Sedgwick cool. I am in Buckner MO
Alex you done any mods on your machine as of yet? or any plans?
@Stephen_Sedgwick I have a smoothie and a smoothie Derivative board and all the stuff needed for the conversion just haven’t had the time to tear apart the machine to do so
I keep seeing mention of Maker Faires here & other places. What exactly is a maker faire? I am unsure if we have anything like it here in Australia & am jealous of all you who get to go to such things.
@Alex_Krause Cheers, will take a look.
edit: I swear I was born in the wrong country! haha.
@Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y MakerFaires are like Disney World for geeks. Absolutely incredible the scope and variety of things people are creating. I don’t think there’s anywhere else you’d see 3D printed prosthetic hands next to a group building small experimental packages to send into space next to small robotics next to people teaching lock picking next to the R2D2 (fully functional, full size) Star Wars robot builders next to animatronic life size horses, next to…
@Jim_Hatch I am soooo jealous. Closest one to me is about 3000km away & a few months. Better start walking now haha.
@Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y start one in your area
@Alex_Krause Might be the way to go. I’ll have to look into it a bit more & see what can be done about getting interest in the local region.