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LaserCutter

LaserCutter
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founder: tomsuch
aym
biiter
ruza
Jenda
pasky
harvie
depends on:
interested: nephirus
software license:
hardware license:

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(or at least engraver, at this time…)

Project status

An XY robot from scanner and matrix printer was built and 1W laser was attached to it. It is not powerful enough to cut, but brmlab logo has been engraved into plastics (member's laptops and mobile phones) and wood. The device was dismantled after some time.

Currently, some members have their own cutters from China and some have powerful laser and plan to build a cutter, however no activity in this project has been observed recently.

PHOTOS

Aim of this project is to construct laser cutter and engraver able to cut plexiglass and wood.

Professional machines cost ~25000 EUR and their abilities are demonstrated on the video below:

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Current status

Abilities

We are able to engrave bitmap image into dark plastic. Samples available in brmlab, photos coming soon!

We have engraved brmlab logo to a mobile phone backcover and to an EEE PC netbook.

Possible upgrades

Documentation - hardware

TBD (photos?)

Documentation - software

Current Software Home

Current firmware and software is now maintained in git:

https://github.com/brmlab/lasic

Pasky's Perl module

Check the Git repository, subdirectory perl/. Use `perldoc Brm/Lasic.pm` and `perldoc Brm/Lasic/PBM.pm` for programming documentation. You will need Perl modules Device::SerialPort and Moose:

apt-get install libmoose-perl libdevice-serialport-perl

You can use the Perl module to easily control the laser cutter:

Rendering bitmap images
Rendering SVG images

Jenda's PHP+sh script - bitmap engraving

Current version (as of 2011 Dec 27 early morning :) works \o/.

Improvements:

TODO:

How-To:

http://jenda.hrach.eu/brm/lasic/php.tar.gz

btr's vector cutter

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http://jenda.hrach.eu/brm/lasic/lasic.tar.gz

TomSuch's GAMBAS project

In progress.

Lessons Learned

LASIK@home, LASIK@brm

Abuse :-)