Frikkin Laser!

thinkl33t · 23 February 2015 22:23

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is
becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials (up
to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W version
of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded with a LAOS
board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the bells and
whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to LAOS took
around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can afford
to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster cutting,
and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

tamarisk_kay · 23 February 2015 22:25

I shall add £200

tamarisk kay

e: tamarisk@tamarisk.it
p: 07949 151 100> On 23 Feb 2015, at 22:23, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better! I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

This laser has the following good stuff:
A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).
A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm deep.
Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.
A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials (up to 250mm deep).
A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get £100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200 because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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Will_Jessop · 23 February 2015 22:30

Count me in for £200 also.

Will.> On 23 Feb 2015, at 22:25, tamarisk kay tamarisk.kay@gmail.com wrote:

I shall add £200

tamarisk kay

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On 23 Feb 2015, at 22:23, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better! I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

This laser has the following good stuff:
• A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).
• A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm deep.
• Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.
• A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials (up to 250mm deep).
• A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get £100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200 because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

Pew pew pew!

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Ben_Dooks · 23 February 2015 22:31

Count me in for £100On 23 Feb 2015 22:23, “Bob Clough” bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is
becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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BinaryKitten · 23 February 2015 22:43

Added my 2p.
(Well £100 pledge)

Barry_Carter · 23 February 2015 22:46

Just to be different £150

Barry Carter

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| http://www.OpenServo.org/ - Full featured servo upgradeOn 23 February 2015 at 22:31, Ben Dooks bjdooks@googlemail.com wrote:

Count me in for £100
On 23 Feb 2015 22:23, “Bob Clough” bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance
is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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Paul_Plowman · 23 February 2015 23:29

Sadly, I’m unable to pledge anything, but I’d just like to say: Woo!Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:23:06 +0000
Subject: [HACMan] [PLEDGE] Frikkin Laser!
From: bob@clough.me
To: hacman@googlegroups.com

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.
Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better! I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

This laser has the following good stuff:A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm deep.Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials (up to 250mm deep).A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!
I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.
The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get £100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200 because i’m pretty cool like that.
But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster cutting, and thicker materials.
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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const · 24 February 2015 09:33

hi bob,

fantastic.

i’ll pedge 50 pounds and will be able to transfer the money towards the end
of this week. hope this is ok.

constOn 23 February 2015 at 23:29, Paul Plowman madstunts@hotmail.com wrote:

Sadly, I’m unable to pledge anything, but I’d just like to say: Woo!

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:23:06 +0000
Subject: [HACMan] [PLEDGE] Frikkin Laser!
From: bob@clough.me
To: hacman@googlegroups.com

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is
becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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Kimball_Johnson · 24 February 2015 09:45

Please don’t transfer any money until we ask you to - and with the
reference required!

Thanks

KimballOn 24 February 2015 at 09:33, Constantin Popp constantin.popp@gmail.com wrote:

hi bob,

fantastic.

i’ll pedge 50 pounds and will be able to transfer the money towards the
end of this week. hope this is ok.

const

On 23 February 2015 at 23:29, Paul Plowman madstunts@hotmail.com wrote:

Sadly, I’m unable to pledge anything, but I’d just like to say: Woo!

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:23:06 +0000
Subject: [HACMan] [PLEDGE] Frikkin Laser!
From: bob@clough.me
To: hacman@googlegroups.com

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance
is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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Alan · 24 February 2015 09:50

I will be up for pledging £50
Alan

(I will add it to the wiki in a few hours)From: Bob Cloughmailto:bob@clough.me
Sent: ‎23/‎02/‎2015 22:23
To: HACManmailto:hacman@googlegroups.com
Subject: [HACMan] [PLEDGE] Frikkin Laser!

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is
becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials (up
to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W version
of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded with a LAOS
board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the bells and
whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to LAOS took
around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can afford
to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster cutting,
and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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Ben_Dooks · 24 February 2015 10:52

Couple of questions.

When are we likely to be finishing the pledge?
Are we going to need a new stand on it?

Ben Dooks, http://www.fluff.org/ben/ bjdooks@googlemail.com

Jake_Causier · 24 February 2015 16:22

I’ll throw in £100 too :)On Monday, 23 February 2015 22:23:08 UTC, bob wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is
becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

thinkl33t · 25 February 2015 10:25

Looks like we’re not far off the £1600 for the base model laser (wooooo).
Once we hit that, we’ll start collecting the pledged money, but allow
people to keep pledging for a week or so to see if we can hit the stretch
goal before ordering.

I’m going to build a stand out of timber, as it’ll need to be far lower
than the current one

Ben_Dooks · 25 February 2015 10:26

Out of interest, will it require similar cooling? If so do we want to try
and damp the pump / put it elsewhere to minimise vibration?On 25 February 2015 at 10:25, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

Looks like we’re not far off the £1600 for the base model laser (wooooo).
Once we hit that, we’ll start collecting the pledged money, but allow
people to keep pledging for a week or so to see if we can hit the stretch
goal before ordering.

I’m going to build a stand out of timber, as it’ll need to be far lower
than the current one

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thinkl33t · 25 February 2015 10:29

It comes with a pump thats significantly quieter (thank god!)On 25 February 2015 at 10:26, Ben Dooks bjdooks@googlemail.com wrote:

Out of interest, will it require similar cooling? If so do we want to try
and damp the pump / put it elsewhere to minimise vibration?

On 25 February 2015 at 10:25, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

Looks like we’re not far off the £1600 for the base model laser
(wooooo). Once we hit that, we’ll start collecting the pledged money, but
allow people to keep pledging for a week or so to see if we can hit the
stretch goal before ordering.

I’m going to build a stand out of timber, as it’ll need to be far lower
than the current one

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BinaryKitten · 25 February 2015 11:39

I’ll second the quietness… the only thing to worry is the new boards
piezo…

Sorry for the other post - too many windowsOn 25 February 2015 at 11:29, Hackspace Manchester hacmanchester@gmail.com wrote:

I’ll second the quietness… the only thing to worry is the new boards
piezo…

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

It comes with a pump thats significantly quieter (thank god!)

On 25 February 2015 at 10:26, Ben Dooks bjdooks@googlemail.com wrote:

Out of interest, will it require similar cooling? If so do we want to
try and damp the pump / put it elsewhere to minimise vibration?

On 25 February 2015 at 10:25, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

Looks like we’re not far off the £1600 for the base model laser
(wooooo). Once we hit that, we’ll start collecting the pledged money, but
allow people to keep pledging for a week or so to see if we can hit the
stretch goal before ordering.

I’m going to build a stand out of timber, as it’ll need to be far lower
than the current one

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thinkl33t · 25 February 2015 14:00

WooHoo, we’ve hit the £1600 for the base model! Good work all.

Just another £300 to go and we can get the big bad 60W bugger.

If Pledgers can start sending their pledges through to the hacman bank
account with the reference ZAPPYZAP, we’ll leave the pledge drive open
for another week or so to see if we can scrape up another £300 before
buying a cutter.

Ta,
BobOn 23 February 2015 at 22:23, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance is
becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

Ben_Dooks · 25 February 2015 14:22

Surely we should add our names to the ref so that we can track who’s paid?On 25 February 2015 at 14:00, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

WooHoo, we’ve hit the £1600 for the base model! Good work all.

Just another £300 to go and we can get the big bad 60W bugger.

If Pledgers can start sending their pledges through to the hacman bank
account with the reference ZAPPYZAP, we’ll leave the pledge drive open
for another week or so to see if we can scrape up another £300 before
buying a cutter.

Ta,
Bob

On 23 February 2015 at 22:23, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance
is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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Ben_Dooks · 25 February 2015 14:26

I’ll add £50 to my pledge, but cannot transfer until i’ve been paidOn 25 February 2015 at 14:00, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

WooHoo, we’ve hit the £1600 for the base model! Good work all.

Just another £300 to go and we can get the big bad 60W bugger.

If Pledgers can start sending their pledges through to the hacman bank
account with the reference ZAPPYZAP, we’ll leave the pledge drive open
for another week or so to see if we can scrape up another £300 before
buying a cutter.

Ta,
Bob

On 23 February 2015 at 22:23, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance
is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics with
the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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thinkl33t · 25 February 2015 14:59

It’d be easier if people just mark themselves as PAID on the wiki once
they’ve paid.

Paying right now this second isn’t hugely urgent, but we could do with
payments arriving within the next fortnight. The faster the payments
arrive the faster we can buy the cutter!

-BobOn 25 February 2015 at 14:22, Ben Dooks bjdooks@googlemail.com wrote:

Surely we should add our names to the ref so that we can track who’s paid?

On 25 February 2015 at 14:00, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

WooHoo, we’ve hit the £1600 for the base model! Good work all.

Just another £300 to go and we can get the big bad 60W bugger.

If Pledgers can start sending their pledges through to the hacman bank
account with the reference ZAPPYZAP, we’ll leave the pledge drive open
for another week or so to see if we can scrape up another £300 before
buying a cutter.

Ta,
Bob

On 23 February 2015 at 22:23, Bob Clough bob@clough.me wrote:

The laser cutter has been on its last legs for a while, and maintenance
is becoming a total nightmare. It’s time to replace it with a newer model.

Since we’re updating, we might as well get something bigger and better!
I’ve been looking into various options, and the best one for us seems to be
a Chinese 6040 Laser Cutter, like the following:

[image: HTB1wtw1FFXXXXXCaXXXq6xXFXXXv.jpg]

This laser has the following good stuff:

A 600mm x 400mm bed size (4 times the area of our current laser).

A 50W tube, allowing us to cut thicker material, up to around 12mm
deep.

Air assist, red dot pointer and a HoneyComb Bed.

A height-adjustable bed, to allow engraving on super thick materials
(up to 250mm deep).

A rotary axis for engraving on bottles and other round stuff!

I’ve recently been over to Leeds Hackspace, who have bought the 60W
version of this laser cutter for their hackspace and wanted it upgraded
with a LAOS board. The cutter seemed very well made, and came with all the
bells and whistles I had to add myself to the old laser. Conversion to
LAOS took around 5 hours total, and was up and running right away.

The total for buying the laser cutter, and replacing the electronics
with the LAOS board we currently use is £1600. Whatever you give will be
matched with laser time on the new cutter - If you give £100 you’ll get
£100 of credit automatically! I’m going to start the pledging off at £200
because i’m pretty cool like that.

But thats not all, we have a stretch goal! If we reach £1900 we can
afford to up the anti and get the 60W version! This would allow faster
cutting, and thicker materials.

http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin Laser
http://wiki.hacman.org.uk/Pledges/Frikkin_Laser

Zap zap zappy zap zap.

-Bob

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