Extraordinary Things And Cool Stuff

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  lower powered laser
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  @foodog 10W? It's probably a 6W diode that is being over powered, so the life will be pretty poor and you may be seeing that.

  TTL = 3 or 4 wires, non-TTL (older laser design) is only 2 wires.

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  Assembly
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  @stevelouk1

  benboxlaser.us

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  Welcome sign
  • nottingham82

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  hahaha thanks zax. I will give them your suggestion.

  @Kaaruk I dont remember. I did that over a year ago. I would guess a few hours.

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  Leather wedding coasters
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  @aj_nyc If I had the time I would love to. My printer is currently busy until spring making some parts for a product I am trying to prototype that needs to be done this winter.

  I did upload all of the files onto 3D hubs for New York, New York and all of the printed parts would cost $95 for PLA and $104 for PETG. That seems like a pretty good deal. I know that my price would be probably more than double that do print them. It is not necessarily the actual printing, but the amount of time required by me. My time is very valuable to me and have lots of things taking my time (work, family, work, child, work, sports, work, hobbies, work.....did I mention work?). I also do not leave my printer unattended. I am always home when it is running, so this cuts down on the amount of time I can print.

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  searching the original picture
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  Commemorative event ticket
  • nottingham82

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  nice

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  Coasters
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  no I just spray painted them.

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  photo / sketch burning with a3 pro 2500
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  That depends alot on the material you are burning and your machine. It takes a lot of testing to dial in your settings to get amazing pictures. You also need to play with your pictures to get them ready for engraving. review this thread for some basics

  http://benboxlaser.us/index.php/topic,2292.0.html

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  Umm Banggood . . . good products, but had to try
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  @ThothLoki It's on a v3/4" thick by 3 1/2" piece of glass made as a paperweight; one side is thicker than the other, so it slopes.

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  Wine Glasses
  • nottingham82

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  I have had success with spray paint, cheap acrylic paint (washes off super easy) and black poster board for flat glass. Now we just need to find a medium to put on metal that would leave a mark.......

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  Quick test of rotary axis with lashed up controller and some steppers out of an old printer.
  • pledgy

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  I had to follow suit. Here is my rotary design. Loki had the origional design and I tweeked it for my needs.

  https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2561227

  Youtube Video

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  Lighter engraving
  • nottingham82

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  well i dont use elekscam, benbox, or GRBL laser so I dont know that my settings translate. I use T2 Laser software. The speed was 100mm/min and I used the equivalent of line by line. The power was set at maixmum which is 255 in T2.

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  Bottle opener
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  Im liking the bottle opener.... almost as much as the fact that theres a place called citrus heights! lol.... Nice work!

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  PC in a Box!
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  a cheap tablet with a usb out might work great for that.

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  Eleksegg Conversion
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  @sumozebra Very nicely done! That's excellent.

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  Metal
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  Nice documentation.

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  Using A3 Laser frame to test Tangential Knife software.
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  Yes that is the board I am using. One problem I have yet to find a good solution to is lifting the knife at angles greater than a set size so not to brake the blade turning in the material. A rather crude work around that I found is to make a small gap to the path at the angle changes to force it to lift. I was planning to use the M8 coolant pin to lift the knife. The gcode tools extension outputs in radians but you can set the scale to 57.2958 to change to deg, I canged the py file so it stayed in deg.

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  EleksMaker A3 Laser case and extractor
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  @tahoe2005 Hi, you can pick it up at any computer store. Once it's the correct voltage, you can pick whatever size you want.

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  Cutting boards
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  yes so without tape you could not get the wheel tread. The smoke all around it would stain it and cause it get washed out. Tape gives good contrast and protects the woods finish around the engraving. If you plan to paint it also acts as a prefab mask.

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  WEDDING COASTER ENGRAVED WITH A3LASER
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  nice!