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[Laser cut and engrave] Spotify Code Key Chain (Keyring) — Project made with M1 machine for Laser cut and engrave.

Spotify Code Key Chain (Keyring)

Instruction

SpotifyCode

.xcs

Application scenario

Laser (30min)

Machine & module

xTool M1

Compatible xTool Machine

F2 Ultra UV

F2 Ultra（Single）

F2 Ultra

F1 Ultra

F1 Lite

P2S

M1 Ultra

D1 Pro 2.0

D1 Pro

Laserbox

Material used

1/8"(3mm) Basswood Plywood

Keyring

Pet Collar Set

Cat Collar

18K Gold Plated Brass

Glass

Pencil

1/64"(0.2mm) Black Metal Business Card

1.8mm Stainless Steel Silver Bone Dog Tag

139

2970

Information

      A fun and easy project to use all the keyrings you get from the XTool's material package.

My dance teacher have a playlist that everyone uses and she was exited when I gave her a keyring with the Spotify QR for this play list.
(The one you see in the cover the image is the one I got for me to troll my friends)

Instruction

Step1: Get the Spotify code from the song/Playlist/Artist

Preview

(From left to right)

Go to you song/playlist/artist on Spotify
Click on the 3 dots next to it
Scroll down to the bottom of the page
Choose the “Show Spotify Code” option
Take a screenshot of the page with the code in it

* The Next steps can be done in any image editing software you want, using the xTool Creative Space is just the way I can make it easier for everyone to follow along

Step2: Import and cut the image

Preview

Import the image to XTool Creative Space program (or any editing program you like)
Using the “Edit Image” → Crop function, cut the QR code, we will want only this part of the image.

Step3: Polish the image

Preview

There are 2 main ways to polish the image: (I recommend using both)

(on the right) From the main image settings, play with the grayscale variables to get a black and white image (you can also play with the sharpness)
- For me 0-146 worked fine (but the range of a good image is big)
(on the left) Go to the Edit Image and use the magic eraser to delete the background.

From this point you can just use this image for engraving, next part is for better results and for cutting

Step4: Get the outline as a shape (for better results and cutting)

Preview

After polishing the image you have 2 ways to get the outline of the image: (for me, after editing the image on different programs, different ways where best)

Using the Outline option from the top bar will give you the outline of the image - if you have a high quality image, this method with the ‘Offset distance’ of 0 to 0.5 will give great results.
Using the image options - Trace image play with the variables to get the outline of all of the parts in the image (for me the small lines did not show at the beginning) but still not have a lot of artifacts.