First laser cut

April 13th, 2015

The software that comes with the laser is mostly in Chinese and limited in functionality but was pretty easy to get started with. I made a round tuit with no alignment or tweaks to the unit and it turned out pretty decent.

 

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I also made a rolling table to hold the laser and cooling water reservoir (5 gallon bucket).

 

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New laser cutter

April 7th, 2015

I bought a cheap Chinese 40W 2030 (20cm x 30cm cutting area) laser engraver/cutter and unpacked it today. There is a lot to be done to make it safe and usable and I can’t wait to start making things with it.

Links

https://fslaser.com/index.php/aitdownloadablefiles/download/aitfile/aitfile_id/12/

http://richardgrisafi.com/2014/10/10/setup-and-maintenance-of-a-40w-laser-cutter-from-ebay/

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(sort of) automated Cygwin install

October 18th, 2014
setup-x86.exe -Dq -s http://mirrors.koehn.com/cygwin/cygwin-ftp/ \
-P openssl,curl,wget,lynx,nc,inetutils,rsync,vim,bind,sed,awk,binutils,\
ncdu,sleep,less,gzip,zip,unzip,bc,procps,openssh,cygrunsrv,wget,vi -R c:/cygwin

DigiSpark Pro

October 1st, 2014

http://www.digistump.com

I backed this project on Kickstarter and just received my goodies in the mail today. When I get time to play the pinout can be found here.