Home Built CNC Laser Build Log. Home Built 40W CNC Laser Project Overview Note: This design has been superceded by the 2.x Laser. There is a blog post on it, information on the wiki and a lot of discussion on the forum. This was designed as a "self replicating" laser cutter engraver'. This is not a mamby pamby little diode laser than can slowly cut through a piece of thin black tape. This was designed to be a dirt cheap, but fully capable laser cutter. The buildlog is presented blog style (most recent entry first) if you want to go view it the other way click here... How can you contribute to the project? Participate in the forum. Builder: bdring Member Since: 2009-11-22 Monday, December 20th 2010 - 12:16 PM I found out the nozzles I had on order probably won't come in until the first week of January.
Add comment in the forum Wednesday, December 1st 2010 - 3:26 PM I don't use those clamps on the design anymore. I have attached the clamp drawing in case you want to use it anyway. Friday, November 12th 2010 - 1:22 PM 1. 2. 3. Laser cutter, start slicing stuff for under 50 dollars. There are many out there that are making things to win a laser cutter.
Here is a project for those 500 that don't win, but still want a laser cutter for simple stencil cutting needs. This project was conceived during a chat with Alex where we wished we had a laser cutter and thought we could make one out of an etchasketch. Alex, this instructable is for you. Keep on inspiring me. --Update: Samuel just built one of these things! He did a much better job t han I did ; P I can't wait for video! Here's a video showing the basic setup: This project demonstrates a simple hack to create a large format laser cutter utilizing all the scrap electronics you may have lying around. CO2 laser that cuts sheet metal. Builders: selective laser sintering part 8: reciprocating laser cutter. Hi folks, On Saturday afternoons, like any good grad student, I visit my parents place to do my laundry.
While it's spinning around, my dad and I usually get up to some neat projects, and this is what we worked on this week. I've had an idea for a while that one might be able to build an inexpensive laser cutter using a 1 Watt IR laser diode, as opposed to the larger 20-100 Watt CO2 tubes traditionally in something like an Epilog laser cutter, using a bit of a trick.
Traditionally laser cutters have a lot of power, and (to my knowledge) are generally fixed focus, meaning that the focal point -- the hottest portion of the cutting beam -- stays at a fixed depth relative to the material that you're cutting. Because commercial laser cutters have so much raw power, it doesn't so much matter that they're slightly out of focus at the top and bottom of the material -- even diverged, the beam still has enough power to cut. The test rig is beautifully simple. Thanks for reading! Superb Open Source CNC Laser Cutter. The Open Source movement sets another fine example with this superb 2-axis laser cutting/engraving station. This is version 2.0 which has a more compact size measuring 12” x 20” x 4”. The DIY laser cutter/engraver has a manual vertical axis but you can opt-in for a digitally controlled one. Don’t miss: All of our CNC projects The electronics as well as all moving metal parts have been designed keeping simplicity and strength in mind.
The neat thing about this laser cutter and engraver is that it could give commercial CNC machines a run for their money. What’s really handy is that Open Source machine has a large community behind it. Popular DIY CNC Projects: Pocket laser engraver. For the Arduino I started out writing my own software. But while searching for a good way to control movement from the serial port I stumbled upon something called "Grbl ".
This is a g-code interpreter with lots of nifty functions. As I already had everything connected to the Arduino I had to ether change my connections or change the software. Luckily it is easy to change control pins in the software. I have however changed the pin-out since then and here in the instructable I use the default pin-out of Grbl. Important: The current version of Grbl (0.6b) has a bug in the queue system. Any way you choose to do it you will end up with a .hex file that you must get into the Arduino. The Arduino needs to be set up for the job. Grbl 0.6b '$' to dump current settings" If you enter $ followed by return you will get a list of options.
You must change the steps/mm for X and Y axis to 53.333 on both. Now you are ready for the computer setup. Cutting a Path - No Laser Paper Cut Map. Frankenstein Laser Engraver. This Frankenstein Laser Cutter was built out of an old scanner and printer. The whole thing evolved around the instructable of Groover and his 'Pocket Laser Engraver'. This is a Making-Of. Although a lot, if not everything, of the mechnical construction requires ingenuity I tried to document the complete build process as much as I could. Every scanner and printer mechanics are different so this could not be used as a step-by-step guide.
More of a "how it can be done"-guide. I try to cover the questions that could arise in the process of making. I had absolutely no clue about electronics. Therefore I have learned a lot in this project. The work area is 270mm x 200mm. It is able to cut : foam rubber tape vinyl paper (nearly every color but white/red) several plastics (could require several runs depending on thickness) It can engrave: light wood (Balsawood/Poplar) leather bone horn plastics some varnishes blank cds/dvds (purple/blue) The color is quite important. How to Get Started with 3D Printing (Without Spending a Fortune) Affordable 20"x12" LASER Cutter / Engraver, Assembled in USA by Full Spectrum Laser. Finally, an affordable US assembled LASER cutter / engraver with great capabilities and easy to use print driver at a price that non-big businesses can afford.
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