Digital Art Studio

A Cricut is an electronic cutting machine that allows you to cut and score designs from materials like paper, vinyl, car stock and iron-on transfers. 

• The Cricut Explore 3 has the added ability to use "smart materials" that work without a cutting mat allowing you to do larger projects.
• The Cricut Venture is a wide format professional cutting machine.
• Heat press (Cricut Easy Press 3 Heat Press Machine) - is a specialized press designed for applying heat transfer designs onto fabric, wood and other surfaces.

Tools:

• Cricut Explore 3
• Cricut Venture
• Cricut Design space
• cricut basic tool set
• vinyl
• cardstock
• cutting mat
• cricut paper cutter
• heat press

Material for purchase at the L2TC desk:

• Vinyl sheet 12 x 12 $2 per sheet
• Cardstock 12 x 12 $.50 per sheet

Bambu Labs P1S - is a Fused Deposition Modeling printer. They extrude polylactic acid (PLA), a compostable thermoplastic derived from corn starch, through a nozzle and deposit it in layers on a heated platform called a build plate. It works like a fancy hot glue gun.

Files can be found at Thingiverse, Printable, and Bambu Studio. Files must be printable in less than three hours.

Print price:
3D prints $2 per print (payment after print completion - no charge if print fails)

3DPolicy:

1. The Library offers customers the use of 3D printers to inspire interest in design and to promote digital literacy and entrepreneurship in our community.
2. The Library may charge a nominal fee to print and may set limitations on print time for the purpose of providing fair and equal access to the 3D printers.
3. Customers can design and create 3D printed-items of any type other than those that:
   1. Are prohibited by local, state, or federal law;
   2. Are unsafe, harmful, dangerous, or pose an immediate threat to the well-being of others (For example, guns, knives, or other possible lethal weapons);
   3. Are obscene or otherwise inappropriate for the Library environment; and or
   4. Violate another person’s property rights, (For example, the printer cannot be used to reproduce objects or materials that are subject to copyright, patent, or trademark protection).
4. Library staff are available to troubleshoot prints as time allows.
5. The Library will not be liable for functional failure of materials made through the use of its 3D printers, or injuries or property damage caused by them.

A laminator is a machine that applies a protective plastic film to documents, photos, or other materials by using heat and pressure to seal them between two plastic sheets

Material for purchase at the L2TC desk:
Laminator pouches $.50 per sheet