Have you ever needed a way to impress your math teacher with a unique work of art? Are you tired of doing your Calc homework, but still want a way to feel like you are doing math? Do you want to combine all this with your laser engraver? If so, read on!
If you're like myself, you've probably once gotten trapped in the endless rabbit hole of making designs with Desmos. This is a popular web-based graphing calculator that is (thankfully) replacing the Ti-Nspire as students' graphing calculator of choice. Compared to the Nspire, not only is Desmos free, but it is sleeker, faster, easier to use, and doesn't feel like it was coded during the same time when my dad was learning Fortran . Along with solving/visualizing equations Desmos can make a lot of cool, aest
Now, the cool part about designing with a graphing calculator is that every single line/curve/point you plot is represented in, well, a graph. This means that it is fundamentally similar to a vector image, which is the same type of image many laser engravers use (or can be easily converted into a type that works). See my last post if you are unsure about how this exactly works.