Personalized Cutting Boards Demonstrate that There’s a Right Time to Innovate

Yesterday was my son’s birthday. As he saw active combat in Afghanistan and other places while serving in the United States Marine Corps, he may be getting a service dog as a companion. The dog that he is hoping to get is named Lara. So I made him a cutting board using a laser cutter at our Autodesk Pier 9 office in the wee hours of the morning before I started my day job. 

Happy Birthday, son.

Actually, I have made a few cutting boards and given them out as gifts. Here they are in various states of development and test runs:

When these boards include pictures, the images need to be converted to bitmap or they don’t engrave correctly. Here’s what I get if I don’t process the image properly:

Here’s what an image looks like when I do it correctly.

I learned how to prepare images for engraving by watching this video.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ULldN28V8]

Thanks, hackhobby.com.

Actually, I have made so many of…