Month: June 2012

  • More Fun With Lasers

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    Alex Storey
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    So my second serious project for the Laser Cutter was to create Acrylic cases for a number of loose collector coins I’ve accumulated over time. I started by creating my layouts in InkScape and saving them to DXF format which the LaserCut software will import. The basic pattern is three (3) layers of 2mm Acrylic…

  • Playing With The Laser Cutter

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    Alex Storey
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    So I tried out my first serious project with the laser cutter after several trial runs to figure out how it works. I downloaded the Spiderasaur schematics from Thingiverse ’cause I thought it looked kind of cool. Ultimately I want to do one in Acrylic but for a start I just did one in 1/8″…