As mentioned before, I decided to hand-make as many Christmas gifts as possible this year. I’ve been collecting cool tools, but haven’t really done enough to use them or exercise my creativity. One of the things that I decided to make was a set of acrylic laser-etched topographical maps. I couldn’t find any easy examples online, but I know that I’ve seen similar things before–basically, you use a laser cutter to remove material from the back of a block of acrylic, leaving a 3D model...
