HydraFabber Blog Post
Tim boyd has been an active contributor in our designs Sprints. Tim is a laser expert and he has produced a design for our laser cutter:
(image of 10W Laser Cutter Concept Diagram)
This laser cutter as part of our HydraFabber - which is a foldable combination 3d printer CNC circuit milk and laser cutter
John stager is currently at Factor e Farm on his Dedicated Project Visit - developing the CNC circuit Mill portion of the device and he is also near completion.
check out the conceptual diagram for the laser cutter and please pass this on to any of your Laser expert friends. We are reviewing the current design and would like your feedback on particle early 1 general design considerations 2 verification of our calculations on laser cutting capacity and 3 any comments on the feasibility of this if you are next if you are experienced with lazers.
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We are ready to go to source the parts. The total cost for the laser cutter portion or 10 watts is about $2000. Here is the bill of materials. I'm the CNC circuit mail we have built upon ilan moyer opensource spindle from the the Center for bits in Adams
John stager is a currt is currently working on the control software for the C&C circuit now where we will use fab modules .