Wooden welcome signs with Wi-Fi details
Instruction
Greet your friends and family member with a nice sign when they next time ask you about your WiFi password they should have known for years. ;)
Open the `.xcs` file in xTool Creative Space.
There is only one canvas based on my used material: 4mm poplar plywood. If you are using a different material thickness (such as 3mm) please adjust the height of the the two cutouts in the base plates.
Be careful with thinner material! I used 1mm two color acrylic as well where one might use two or three center pieces or a plywood center piece instead of better stability.
Material
- 4mm Poplar plywood [Hornbach.de, Amazon.de*]
Create your own WiFi QR Code within xTool Creative Space.
Select Applications > Code Generation from the left sidebar. Copy and paste belows line into the content textfield and replace it with your own WiFi name / SSID and WiFi key / password accordingly.
WIFI:S:WiFi-Name;T:WPA;P:WiFi-Password;;
The QR code is sadly an image only, therefore we should trace the image to get vector data.
Rescale the traced image to a size of 40x40 mm and place it at the appropriate space. Don't forget to select the “Engrave” mode.
To make the QR code extra pop duplicate the QR code and add another scoring layer on top of it.
Material
- NFC tags [Amazon.de*]
Use the same credentials as in the previous step and paste it into the corresponding textfields.
To make them extra visible I wanted to have the text surrounding carved out rather than the text. To do so, please select both layers and press “Substract”.
You might want to adjust your cutting settings based on the material used.
For my 20W M1 Ultra in combination with 4mm poplar plywood I used…
… for scoring
power: 85
speed: 5
… for engraving
power: 85
speed: 269
… for scoring
power: 70
speed: 251
Material
- 4mm Poplar plywood [Hornbach.de, Amazon.de*]
If you want you can place an NFC tag in the middle to make it connectable not only via QR code. This method might be used for older Android phones where QR code scanning might require otherwise additional apps.
glue together the three base parts and the three top parts as well.
After some time to let it dry, you can place it on your table.
Enjoy! :)
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