It is already December 1st, and time for a new Advent Calendar. This year the design includes birch plywood with PMMA, SK6812 RGBW LEDs running with a Raspberry Pi Pico board, building a small village.
Advent Calendar 2022
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Tag Archives: Plywood
Laser Cut Advent Calendar 2020
Tomorrow is the 1st Advent, and right on time I was able to finish a special version of an Advent calendar for the Christmas 2020:
laser cut advent calendar illuminated
Steampunk Lasercut Enclosure for Raspberry Pi
Having access to a laser cutter makes it possible to design custom enclosures. This one is for a Raspberry Pi in a Steampunk design:
Steampunk Enclosure
Lasercut Angel Sweets Box
For this Christmas time I wanted to create a special gift box for a special neighbor family.
Christmas Gift Box Wrapped
Lasercut Plywood Board for Raspberry Pi
Need a quick way how to attach a LED, a push button and two resistors to the Raspberry Pi header? One way is to use some ‘flying’ wires. Or to use three pieces of lasercut plywood for a nice looking Raspy extension board:
Wood Circuit Board on Raspberry Pi
Easy Box Making for Laser Cutters
I love my laser cutter because it makes it easy to create nice wood boxes:
Wood Box
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
Tuning a Laser Cutter and Determine the Maximum Usable Laser Power
The question has been: If I buy such a 50 Watt cheap laser cutter from China, how many Watts does it really have? I have read all these stories that usually what is advertised is only the theoretical maximum I could get, and will not be realistic at all. This article is about how I tuned the machine and how much I got out of it.
Different Laser Power
MCU on Eclipse 