The laser originally LaserCut 5.3 and a plugin to Corel Draw.

It had the Leetro MPC6515 controller

Pictures from Aug 5, 2024

The full controller. Rotated to match the block diagram.

two Stepper drivers. Not sure where the third driver is.

Switches set the same. I rotated the image …

How to engrave a picture

On the way from the Lodge I told Finn "We don't want to go saying stupid things, like 'an Octopus in a Tuxedo."

"What's wrong with an Octopus in a Tuxedo?" he asked, quite reasonably.

I waited for a safe place to pull over, and …

Finn wanted a boat. Just five pieces, and he helpfully drew a picture of it.

I found a Laser cut Noah's Ark DXF and downloaded it.

Corel Draw loaded the plans as 'outlines,' at least, once I clicked 'convert outline to object' I got something I could work with.

My …

Files: - projects/heart_words/live_laugh_fist.ecp - projects/heart_words/live_laugh_fist.dxf

Rose 1/4" Acrylic engrave speed 300 power 40 cut speed 8 power 90

I should do engraving tests. I think I had 500-40 at one point.

There were 'echoes' or ghost lines. About 8 mm to the right or lower …

Files:

black 3 mm Cell Cast Acrylic sheet, Chemcast engrave speed 300 power 40 cut speed 20 power 60 three passes

40 mm coin. Moose on one side. The number 4 or 6 on the other

It is fun how quickly you normalize improvements in your personal hedonic index.

Economists …

I had the front doors of the laser off, which might be a bad idea. In this photo you see the 'hatch' or top cover, and then two doors with key sockets on each side.

The two doors are actually one, but it is hinged in the middle so that …

Work holding and tooling are like 90% of doing well in a machine shop, and maybe 60% in a wood shop.

I first started with laser cutters in 2009 at TechShop, and that was before I knew about work holding and tooling.

Then I got to live on a property …

Zach wrote an instructable about his DIY Fume Extractor.

Lensdigital Wrote about his build.

And now perhaps it is my turn.

But it is a lot of work, and how well does it work?

I don't like the carbon being on the sides, it means that if the carbon isn't …

(an ongoing post)

Laser Love and Beer! Continuing my hopeful inclusion in North Bay Python.

I paid for my Laser cutter right before NBay Python 2024, while I was frantically and frenetically working on my talk about cocktail robotics.

It was in the period I defined as the great laser …

I have a directoy named 'laser_box' with two files in it.

It is a parametric model for a live hinge. Specify a few parameters in the OpenSCAD file and you get a live hinge that you can export to a dxf, and then read into your laser software.

• hinge_work.dxf …