Dmitriy Kumets
07-30-2011, 1:20 PM
Hi!
After doing production jobs of 400 wine glasses and thousands of dog tags, I figured it was time to do something fun. My day job is working at a tech company with servers all over the world so I made this computer/arduino controlled panel. Laser cut out of prefinished 1/4" birch. I loved working with pre-finished plywood but after cutting it down to 18x24 pieces, it would warp like no tomorrow. If only there was pre-finished BB.
The panel is 23"x23"x6" so to make the cutting work on an 18x24 laser, I had to split the front and back into two pieces. The sides (23x6) cut just fine.
The map is from http://www.vectorworldmap.com/ with some of the smaller islands removed. I used vectors/ color mapping for the map and love how crisp the results were.
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Full write up at http://www.nerdkraft.com/?p=132
After doing production jobs of 400 wine glasses and thousands of dog tags, I figured it was time to do something fun. My day job is working at a tech company with servers all over the world so I made this computer/arduino controlled panel. Laser cut out of prefinished 1/4" birch. I loved working with pre-finished plywood but after cutting it down to 18x24 pieces, it would warp like no tomorrow. If only there was pre-finished BB.
The panel is 23"x23"x6" so to make the cutting work on an 18x24 laser, I had to split the front and back into two pieces. The sides (23x6) cut just fine.
The map is from http://www.vectorworldmap.com/ with some of the smaller islands removed. I used vectors/ color mapping for the map and love how crisp the results were.
203489
203490
Full write up at http://www.nerdkraft.com/?p=132