I love my laser cutter because it makes it easy to create nice wood boxes:
Wood Box
Easy Box Making for Laser Cutters
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Tag Archives: Laser Cutter
Using a 50 Watt Laser Cutter with tesa Laser-Labels
Laser cutter and engraver are the kind of cool thing after 3D printers which get more and more common. One interesting thing to use a laser engraver (or cutter) is to use it with tesa Laser Labels.
Tesa Laser Label (Source: http://www.tesa.com)
Using a Laser Cutter and Engraver with Cellulose Acetate Sheets
I’m mostly using my 50W laser cutter machine with plywood, simply because that material is available and very inexpensive. I have used it cutting or engraving PMMA (Polymethyl methacrylate or ‘Plexiglas’), simply because that material is more expensive.
From a reader of this blog I received something to experiment with: Cellulose Acetate sheets. Time to experiment with something new 🙂
Washed off
50W Laser Cutter Upgrades
Using that 50 Watt laser machine (see “Getting Control over a 50 Watt CO2 Laser Cutter from China“) for several weeks now, I have added a few upgrades to the machine.
Magnets
WiFi TFT Touch LCD Weather Station with ESP8266
After the “WiFi OLED Mini Weather Station with ESP8266“, here is another one: this time with Touch LCD :-):
LCD Weatherstation with ESP8266
WiFi OLED Mini Weather Station with ESP8266
I’m convinced that this ‘Internet of Things’ thing-thing is not real. Pure marketing and buz words without any added value, right? The IoT hype is so bizar: it must be originated by aliens which have taken over the brains of all the Pointy-haired Bosses of the world? There is no useful application or use case out there!
But wait! There *is* actually good use case, at least for the geeks of this world. We all love clocks as we want to know the time, and we all love the weather forecast so we can plan accordingly. At least I usually do :-).
SQUIX ESP8266 Mini Weather Station
Laser Cutter: Wooden Chest Box
I have been asked to share what I’m creating with the laser cutter. So here is one more design: a wooden chest box:
Wooden Chest Box
Laser Engraving for a Card Box
We are creating a new course (PRG-G) at the Lucerne University. This course teaches C programming and is part of the new curriculum in EE (Electrical Engineering). Every student will receive a microcontroller board on an extension board as give-away, in a custom card box for the board and cable. To make things a bit more exciting, why not laser engrave that box? That gives me a perfect excuse to experiment with the laser cutter 🙂
Laser Engraved Card Box
MCU on Eclipse 