 We just made these cute little laser-cut nightlights and we'll show you how to do it right now! What is up? Welcome back! Do you like to do a builder make it? So do we! We have new videos each week! One of our patrons found these cute little nightlights somewhere on the internet and sent us a request for us to make them and show her how we would make them. Now she does not have Adobe Illustrator and we're always trying to show different ways that you can use the different software products. So you can use Lightburn, you can use Adobe Illustrator to do some of your designs. We're going to use our X-Tool S1 and we're going to use X-Tool Creative Space. The whole project can be created in Creative Space. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed some eighth-inch birch and we needed some eighth-inch acrylic and then I needed some cardboard for a test cut. We're also going to use some of the Starbond thick for glue as we assemble the project. We're going to use our Foxy Hughes paints and I think we're going to use a little stain. I think we're going to do a couple of different versions of these. Of course we need our nightlight bases. We got a little bulk pack of these and I'll tell you about these later. And then we're going to be using these LED light bulbs. Step two, we're going to make our design and we're going to do it all in Creative Space. We'll meet you there! Here we are in X-Tool Creative Space. I'm going to import our PNG. And you can see we've chosen a selection of succulents. I thought this was a great versatile little project. But with these nightlights, you could really use any clip art. It could be stuff for kids room, bathroom. I was thinking kitchen with these. Let's trace our PNG so that we can cut it out. Once we click on it, our little image tools will come up. We're just going to click Trace. I'm going to leave all these defaults. It looks fine and click Save. Now I have a vector version of this PNG up here. I no longer need this PNG. We can delete it. Let's ungroup these guys so we can start to manipulate them. Now this piece is going to be our front piece or a little frame to our nightlight. And then we want an acrylic backer to this, like a solid acrylic backer. Now if we make an outline and we set it to 0, 0, 0. You'll notice that it traces everything. Everything got traced. I can't use this. I can't ungroup this. There's nothing I can do with it. Now, quick trick is I'm going to outline it, but I'm going to leave it like 0.01. And I'm going to unclick, add inner outline for bitmap. Unclick that. Okay. Now I have just the outline, but it's just slightly too big. So I'm going to outline it one more time, but this time negative 0.01. Now this should be the exact size of my little cactus up top. There you go. There's my little acrylic backer. But Kim wants to use two different colors for this backer. I want the tops to be a different color than the pots. So I want the cactus to be in green, the pots to be in a color. So let's line this up. I'm going to need to cut this in half. So let's line this up so I can find a good spot where I can cut it in half. So I can see it. Let's move this to the red layer. Now it stands out a little against the black. I'm going to align them both vertically and horizontally. There you go. Now it should be all lined up. I'm going to draw a box around the top of this cactus. Now I'm going to try to hit it right at the top of the pot, right? So I'll cut it right in here, right in the meat of this pot, right on the lip. I think that'll be a good split. So I'm going to grab both the cactus and the box. I can drag them down here now. I'm going to make a copy, control C, and then I'll paste control V. One of these is going to be the top, one's going to be the bottom. Right. I'm going to grab both of these, come up to combine, and then I'm going to click subtract front. Now I just have my pot. I'm going to grab both of these, go up to combine, and I'm going to do unite at overlap. Now I just have the cactus. There we go. I'm going to do two different color bases. And if I line them up, they should fit perfectly. I'll go ahead and align them horizontally. Let's see what it looks like. All right. This looks great. I think the pot and the cactus line up perfectly. My little frame. Now I have to do this about four more times over here. So let's do the rest of this and fast forward. But while we're watching, if you're enjoying this type of content, join us over on Patreon where we're always sharing additional design tips and tricks. Folks ask for questions and Garrett will put little videos out there. Not only for X-Tool Creative Space, but also Lightburn and Adobe Illustrator. He shares that kind of information on Patreon as well as our Discord channel. Step three, we're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to take the eighth inch birch and the acrylic over to the X-Tool S1 and cut them out. But before I do that, I want to check to make sure our design line width won't just burn up. So we're going to cut it out in cardboard so that we don't waste any of the materials. That's a great little tip. You can do a test cut in cardboard. It's cheap. You haven't laying around with all those Amazon boxes. You could do a quick test cut to make sure it seems like it's going to hold like he said, maybe not burn up if the line is looking a little thin. So it's a great option to do a test cut. The cardboard test came out great. The line thickness looks great. I mean, they look perfect. I want to do something with these. What can I do with these? It's just cardboard, but I hate to waste them. They look awesome. They do look great. So now we're going to take the real materials back to the S1 and cut out our design. Alright, we're ready to cut out our top pieces, our little frame pieces. So we need to move these guys off of our canvas. We'll move our little frame pieces down. Now let's pick our material. Let's see what materials they have. We'll go to more. We have some three millimeter birch. We'll say a pine plywood that works. Use that. I'm going to select all of these. I'm going to make them cut. I'm going to go with 100% power. 12 millimeters per second. That's what it suggests. Kim is going to move the laser head to the middle of the board and then we're going to measure the distance or check the thickness. This is automatic. It'll come down, drop a pin, check it, and tell us what our actual thickness is. Alright, let's frame this out. Kim's back there manning the framing. Everything looks good. Let's process this and hit start. The wood pieces look great. Now let's do our acrylic. So we'll move these frame pieces off of our canvas. Let's move them up top. And we'll start dragging on some pieces that we want cut out of acrylic. I think we'll start with these two pieces and we'll do that light green. The light green acrylic. Let me go pick my materials. Let's see what they got. Let's check three millimeter. Let's check green. Nope, let's try three millimeter. I only see orange and black. I think we'll try orange. What do you think? I don't know. I don't know. I'm a little concerned because this one is considered translucent. But let's give it a try. I mean it doesn't look, it's not super translucent. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. So let's frame this out and try it. Alright, looks good. Let's process this and hit start. It came out beautifully. They cut perfectly. First try. The acrylic is a different story. Now I knew the S1 won't cut clear acrylic. It is a diode laser. But I really thought it would cut this transparent acrylic because it does have some color to it and it's covered on both sides in paper. So I thought there was a good chance. I was wrong. But the challenge with the transparent acrylic is it still cannot focus on the material. When it goes through and hits the paper it comes through the clear and it just won't focus and therefore it just, the laser beam is too wide it makes a mess. It just melts the acrylic. It just melts the back. Blew out the paper. Didn't cut through all the way. But I think I can save it. I think I can take this over to the P2, line it up and cut it out. And then we'll cut out the rest of the acrylic. And we don't want to leave you thinking that it won't cut acrylic at all. We have tested the diode laser on red acrylic. It's just opaque acrylic. It has to be completely opaque where you cannot see through it. So all the acrylic we're using for this project will be transparent. So we are going to move over to the CO2 laser. So let's try this again. I'm not giving up. We're going to move to the P2 and see if we can get through this acrylic. So I'm going to switch my laser to click in this. And then over here on the left I can switch my device. I'm going to Wi-Fi. All of our X-Tool products are Wi-Fi. Of course it's going to change my settings. We're going to pick our materials. Let's go to more. Let's see what they got in acrylic. There's a lot more choices here. A lot more. We'll pick, we'll just say 3mm transparent acrylic. I'll see if I can line these up so that I don't waste this acrylic. And to do that I'm going to go up to my close capture view. Select it right here. We'll use the features of the P2. I was going to take a little snapshot. Now I can zoom in and line these little cut lines right up on what was already there. Let's try to save this. No acrylic left behind. Well it's not cheap. I don't want to waste it. I'm not wasting this stuff. I'm getting it out of here. What do you think? I mean it looks awesome. Let's go ahead and say cut. It's telling me that it's 100% power. 20mm per second. I trust it. Trying to turn this close capture view off. How do I turn it? Alright. Forget it. Let's just process this thing. And start. Just paints. So actually I'm going to stay in two of these and then I'm going to paint three of them so we can see different options. And I did go back to the S1 with some transparent red and some opaque black and I was able to cut one of mine out. Oh so that is transparent red. Not opaque red. It's a transparent red. But it's pretty opaque. Right so that tells you it just needs to not be see through. I just don't want that light really to pass through very much. Step 5. It's time to bring it all together with some starbound thick. We're just going to put some dots on the frame and then put the acrylic on top of it. Well I think we have varying techniques. I'm going to put some dots on the frame and then lay it on the acrylic. Oh okay. We'll see which one works better. We'll report back. Now that we have our little frames on our little acrylic pieces we're going to glue the little tabs on that will allow us to slide it on to the light socket. Doing it Garrett's way allows you to immediately put that back on. Like I don't want to turn mine over until it's a little drier. Pro tip. Don't use so much glue on the acrylic pieces. Bits. I see you have the... It's probably more micro than mine. Mine's micro'd out. Step 6. Profit. Now these are pretty easy to make and I forget how much we were in on them. Well I can tell you. So for the actual night light plug piece and the bulbs were about $2.20 for that piece of it. And then for the birch and the acrylic I would say we were in about $3. So I think you're looking in between $5 and $6 in materials. And I think that you could sell these for $16 to $25 depending upon how much intricate they are. And then Garrett's are you going to take care of some? So Garrett's is two layer acrylic and I think you could charge a little bit more for two layers of acrylic. Because it just looks a little bit crisper. I don't know. I think these look great. And so what I tried to show here is that these are a little bit more geared towards adults like a great kitchen night light. But of course there's so many different things you can do with these. You can personalize them. They can be in kids rooms. Bedrooms. Bathrooms. Garages. They can be in a man cave. You can do something cool with a custom car. I think there's so many different ideas for these. And thanks Ingrid for the great idea. I think this is a great project to share with everybody. And big thanks to all of our other patrons. We love you guys and that is the best way to support this channel. So join us over on Patreon where we have all of our cut files secret Facebook group and now a Discord channel. So many other things. There's a whole community out there. Extra content. Extra videos. Come join us over on Patreon. And these things are... No. No. Oh it's happening? Oh it happened. Alright. I'm about out of time. So I will see you next week where we'll do it. Build it and make it again.