New tool in the house! After circling one for years now, I finally pulled the trigger on a vinyl cutter/plotter!
It's a Silhouette Portrait 3, only a small one, but the important part is that I can use it with Open Source tooling & local only*, thanks to the combo of @inkscape & the inkscape-silhouette** extension!
Lots of ideas swirling around in my head about stickers, shirts and such, but for now I've given it a face! 😄
* Fsck this cloud only subscription crap!
@RobeeShepherd That is definitely a better option because cricut is locked down AF, to a point I'd not even touch with a ten foot pole.
They tried to pull this stunt a few years ago: https://hackaday.com/2021/03/15/cricut-decides-to-charge-rent-for-people-to-use-the-cutting-machines-they-already-own/ and given they are cloud only I wouldn't trust them to not go through with shit like that in the future.
@RobeeShepherd @jimp I simply went with the smallest 😅 Cuts A4/letter width (and for vinyl with backing pretty much endless length, no cutting mat needed for that).
I figured if I get into it enough to want to be able to cut wider stuff I can always still buy a Cameo later.
Gina Häußge
Robee? Na! 🌈
Jim P.