I got me a laser cutter, awesome!

Very nice, finger joints can be a tad annoying making sure all line up :p I find it fairly easy now but the first few models I did made my head hurt!

Nice work! I really like the rounded edges.

As for the finger joints, I cheated and used a free program to create a pdf of what i needed.

My Ply is getting there, it is all about speeds and power. Hopefully today i will have some little speaker boxes made :-)
 
I've got an iPod back from an iPod that went through the washing machine if you want something to practice on.

Its one of the older ones with the wide screen and polished back (although a year of scratches are on it now.

I'll post it up you want it.
 
Laser cut an Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube :)

heh heh, cool.

I just got back from tweaking settings to do 3mm Birch Ply. So I made a little speaker enclosure for some old cones I had lying about. The cones are 60mm.

Cut time 10mins - as it goes quite slowly.

A coat of varnish is next.

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I may mod my own iPod dock with a twist next.
 
I hope you are taking laser safety seriously, 40W is a lot of invisible power. I'm sure a lot of that will scatter back. I see you are running the laser with the top open. I would be very careful of scatter at that sort of power.

It does look like you know what you are doing so I'm not gonna patronise you though!

sid
 
I hope you are taking laser safety seriously, 40W is a lot of invisible power. I'm sure a lot of that will scatter back. I see you are running the laser with the top open. I would be very careful of scatter at that sort of power.

It does look like you know what you are doing so I'm not gonna patronise you though!

sid

Thanks for your concern :-)

Lid is always shut unless I am filming, and hiding behind some orange acrylic :-)
 
Nice work! I really like the rounded edges.

As for the finger joints, I cheated and used a free program to create a pdf of what i needed.

My Ply is getting there, it is all about speeds and power. Hopefully today i will have some little speaker boxes made :-)

Any chance I could grab a copy of the program? Sounds sweet! :)
 
Ok, time for something productive, now I have it all setup properly (I think).

I cut one of my little Arduino bots out of 3mm ply, and I think I prefer it over the acrylic version.

What do you think?

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The wooden one.

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Vs the acrylic one.
 
Cheers for the link to the box program :) There are a few other cool things on there too.

I think I prefer the acrylic boxbot though the ply version does look good. Don't suppose you sell kits without the chassis + cad files? Can't help thinking this would be a good project for our engineering club at school!
 
Would the arduino be suitable for constantly monitoring enviromental temperatures, switching on and off relays / dimming outputs? Is it easy enough to program, and get info displayed on a screen? And have everything timed to an internal clock?

I have never done anything similar, but want to make a vivarium enviromental control.
 
I think you should be making a Ply version of Amazon's Danbo for Ocuk,

Your stuff is very good, very impressed with all of this.

I build, make and fly RC Planes and Heli's so use a lot of laser cut wood. Would be great to design and make my own using one of these machines.
 
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