Summary

I made an acrylic key chain using a picture from the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, MO in 2012.

Instructions

To make this I opened the photo in Photoshop and traced the St. Louis Arch so that Live Trace would recognize the arch. Then I saved the photo and opened it in Illustrator. In Illustrator, I Live Traced the photo and adjusted the settings. Next, I placed a square around the picture and a small circle in the corner with a stroke of 0.001 so that it would vector cut. Lastly, i sent the document to the CNC Laser with the following settings:

Raster Speed: 100
Raster Power: 50
Vector Speed :12
Vector Power:100
Vector Frequency: 5000

St. Louis Key Chain