If you're looking for a back-to-school project for yourself or with the kids, embrace your inner maker and try some of these medium-to-advanced projects, made not on a 3D printer, but on a cloud ...

Design work happens in two stages: vector art for the laser and CAD for the base. Most makers sketch the panel in Inkscape or Illustrator, export an SVG, then run a shallow engrave pass on 3mm ...

Snap.svg author is Adobe's Dmitry Baranovskiy, who wrote an earlier SVG project for browsers called Raphael. Snap.svg, in contrast to that software, works on modern browsers.