My housemate, David, introduced me to Constructable – interactive lasercutting. It is a system that allows a user to draft directly onto a work surface (wood) and a laser will follow along and cut out the piece. Here is their website and a link to some more information. It looks incredibly fun but I am not sure how good I would be with it. I think I would need CAD software to draw anything useful since my free hand drawings never come out the way I plan (the system does clean up the lines). I guess the engineer in me likes the precision of CAD. I also need to be able erase or correct my drawings as well as have exact dimensions. I still would love to play around with one.