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Laser Specs

By Darcy October 16, 2011 CNC, CNC Laser No Comments
Laser Specs

After some thinking and design work here is what my laser will look like after the modifications: Cutting area: 46×26″ Outside Dimensions: 54 x 37.75 x 13″ (without panels) I…

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Open Source Laser

By Darcy September 1, 2011 CNC, CNC Laser, Community No Comments

BuildLog.net has a pretty amazing open source laser design. Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace Share on Orkut Share…

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Epilog Zing 24 Review

By Darcy September 1, 2011 CNC, CNC Laser No Comments

There is a review with quite a bit of technical information over at Model Airplane News. I’ll write my own review of this thing once I’ve learned more about it.…

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CAD and Laser Cutting using Epilog

By Darcy September 1, 2011 CNC, CNC Laser No Comments
CAD and Laser Cutting using Epilog

I have been using Sketchup plus MeshCAM or Phlatboyz Plugin for CNC milling. It works great, I’m using MeshCAM for 3D and Phlatboyz for 2.5D. Some lasers, Pokono and the…

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Fire the Laser!

By Darcy August 24, 2011 CNC Laser, Community, Tools 4 Comments
Fire the Laser!

I’m just down at ArtEngine where there’s some laser hacking going on. We’ve got the new Epilog 30 running. It’s very nice. It runs from a printer driver that can…

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Something new in the lab

By Darcy August 17, 2011 CNC Laser, Community No Comments
Something new in the lab

Hey, looks what I found.   Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace Share on Orkut Share with Stumblers Share…

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Laser as a display device

By Darcy August 15, 2011 Arduino, Interactive, POV, Robotics 2 Comments
Laser as a display device

I’ve been thinking about ways of having a surface to interact with. I’ve been thinking of POV systems a little. Also laser projection (I was thinking if combined a laser…

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I like gears

By Darcy April 21, 2011 Gears, Interest No Comments

Here are some nice examples of laser cut gears. I’m assuming that it laser actually…. Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share…

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Local Makers (professional)

By Darcy March 6, 2011 Community No Comments

http://virtucom-inc.com http://www.smprototypes.com/ Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace Share on Orkut Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it…

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CO2 Laser Power Control

By Darcy February 6, 2011 CNC Laser No Comments

The only real problem that’s not really solved yet on my CNC Laser is the laser power control. It seems there are people that run the laser from the spindal…

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Finally making parts with CNC Mill

By Darcy January 15, 2011 CNC Mill 1 Comment
Finally making parts with CNC Mill

Okay, I’ve been toying around with cardboard experiments and now I’m ready to make parts. I am making mounting brackets for the laser. Here is the first part. Each bracket…

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An open source laser?

By Darcy January 5, 2011 Challenge, CNC, CNC Laser 2 Comments
An open source laser?

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Lasersaur project. It’s clearly a great idea to have an open source laser. The project isn’t really open source. It is really a…

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CNC Laser Cutter construction

By Darcy November 26, 2010 Challenge, CNC, CNC Laser 5 Comments
CNC Laser Cutter construction

I decided to make a CNC laser cutter with some material handling capabilities for my model plane project. Water Cooling I have some surgical tubing for the water jacket (the…

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