Laser Cutter and Engraver

It started as a 10W Creality Falcoln Laser hose clamped to a stripped 3D printer

But it was too small, and too immobile.

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Now, it is used constantly, on the screen is a sturgeon I am putting on the carbon fiber paddle project.

Software is Lighburn, and I loooove it! I am annoyed that they raised the price for the new version, but the software is dead simple and intuitive while still being extremely powerful.

We mostly use it for marking projects, but have cut paper, sliced veneer, made wood boxes, gouged out wood for epoxy inlays, made parts for a model railroad, cleaned rust (not great), marked water bottles (the rotary spindle is cool), and burned a huge variety of things. 10 watts is plenty for us, and seems to be the sweet spot before things get expensive.

So I built an upgrade kit to take the total build area to encompass 1 square meter. But dad wants it to do big stuff too. So I put a screw drive on each corner with stabilizing rod. Tie it all together with Temu motor controllers and 3D printed brackets and it works fairly well. Each motor is independent, if I had to redo it, I would do a chain drive to link them all together. The white knobs on top are for fine adjustment as the motors tend to desynchronize after a couple cycles. Still, it gets the job done.