Improving my plant board

I decided to improve my project from last year. 

Last year I made the board for plants and primarily worked on LED light coding. This year I focused on the board itself. 

My goals were to make the boxes more functional and possibly in the future to adjust it to the size of plant pots and to paint the world map.

I painted the map which was very fun and relaxing but I had a little challenge – the paint was too liquidy. I could see the brown board from underneath the paint. I solved this problem by mixing cornstarch and the paint. Cornstarch made the pain look more thick and expansive, and gave me full coverage of the board.

To mix paint and cornstarch no necessary proportion needed, I just added as much as I thought would help thicken the paint.

I painted it white so anyone could add something on the map. Landmark, forest, mountains or perhaps something that represents a specific region or a country. Some sort of a group project.

This project also allowed me to refresh my knowledge of how to work with the lasercut and how to make the boxes on the computer. 

Overall I am pretty happy with the results but I already have ideas of how to improve it in the future. I have a feeling this project will never be fully finished. 

As Harley’s tattoo says “Art is never finished. Only abandoned” 🙂