1 Topic by ITman496

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Topic: Laser cutter

I've been designing a laser cutter recently, and am pretty close to finished.  The only question I have yet to solve is what am I going to use as electronics / software?

I'd love to use a sanguinololu, as it is sized correctly and convenient.  But.. can I?  I read about a firmware called lazrfish but it doesn't seem too far along.

Also I know that skienforge has a laser cutter option.  But what if I want to engrave?

Does anyone know of any good software hardware combos that you can use for a diy laser cutter?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4963246/laser%20cutter/SimLab_183.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4963246/laser%20cutter/SimLab_185.jpg

2 Reply by LadyJanel

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Re: Laser cutter

No idea though I did see a project going on at U of Michigan where they were building their own and using a Makerbot to do it... I'll try to find it again. Mainly wanted to reply so that I could follow this post in case others were more knowledgeable since I would like to do this myself at some point...

3 Reply by bteeter (edited by bteeter 2014-01-01 02:42:14)

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Re: Laser cutter

Just hop on over to:  http://www.buildlog.net/forum/  Bart has built what you have and there are a whole bunch of these type of machine in the wild from his kits.  There are topics on all the different parts including the electronic and the different types of controllers.

Bob