Here is my first laser engraver I built. For the construction I used my Omega Printer. You can see it working on this video in the last seconds: https://youtu.be/JWtdxnSHNTs
Lukas Baumeler 06/12/18
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Did you pay a lot for this machine? Iam trying to buy one and iam kinda new into DIY projects and I will like to buy one but some on the reviews I seen most of them when you order them from China don't have good instructions which one should I go for for under $300
As you can see in the title I built it myself. I also built an other machine, you find pictures and information in my profile. The parts costed about 150.-
That's a very interesting build! What power has the laser diode?
I have a Chinese eleksmaker laser and I'm curious about what software you use for the gcode?
just 2W blue laser diode. Works great for wood and can cut paper.
I had a 5W in my current laser-engraver (Mark XII), but with that one wood catches fire.
I use GRBL and laserGRBL. Photoshop is useful too.
Reply to: Lukas Baumeler
You can compensate that with higher speed to boot burn with the 5w laser.
Ok I use LaserGRBL too but I miss the preview mode that shows me the borders of the engraving
Amazing :wink: . I wish I could build something like that
So just do it. It's not rocket science ;)
Reply to: Lukas Baumeler
Can you explain how you did it. Maybe a tutorial. Would you mind me starting a chat with you on this app. Also was it expensive. I would love for that to be my next project. I’m decently experienced with arduino , electronics, and I’m pretty goodat 3D printing deg.
Antwort auf: tzvi
of cours, just send me pm.
Also maybe I make a tutorial, but not about this laser engraver but about the one I built after, and which is much better.
Seems to work well from the image! What kind of size can it engrave to? I have a cheap Neje laser engraved win a 500mW laser, but I find the area way too small for anything really useful, and aligning materials to be difficult due to the struts.
Hello RPB, yes it worked well, but it has a really small laser-area. It's about 16cm in with and maybe 22cm in length, but I am not quite sure, because I didn't used this machine a long time.
But the laser you have looks quite nice!
Reply to: Lukas Baumeler
That’s relatively large in comparison to my own; you can only fit about 500mm by 700mm materials on it (that’s a complete guess, I’m nowhere near it to measure it!)
I might build another laser engraver in the future with my own design that’s slightly larger but that’s a nice build; congrats!
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thanks RPB!
Yes do this. It is so much better if the area is much bigger! :)
The laserengraver I have now has about double the area and it worth it so much.
Note this was just a cheap machine design as I desided to build a bigger laserengraver later.