DiY. Homemade Router Laser CNC.

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Yag laser marking

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Laser Marking for Your Business Industrial Solutions!

DiY. How to build a homemade Router Laser CNC.

In this page I will show you how I have build a Router Laser CNC using some part from old printers, a Epson Stylus 800 and another Epson Stylus Color II, (you can use your old printer). Aplications: Cutting Paper. To make stencils for painting with airbrush. Wood and Cardboard Engraving. Write and paint in wood whitout ink. Plastic Engraving. To write in plastic without special inks. Plastic Cutting. To obtains the parts you need to build the prototipes of your inventions. Printed Circuit Boards Engraving. We can start obtaining the X axis from the old printer. We will use the guide, the stepper and the bridge. We will mount the laser diode in the place of the ink cartridges. We will not use the other parts, as control board, we need change it by another CNC control board with stepper drivers. I have mounted it in a wood base.

General view of the device.

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Transmission system for Y axis.

The first protortipe for the new CNC control board that controls 2 stepper motors and the power for the Laser Diode.

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In this video you can see a wood engraving test using the software EMC2 in Ubuntu 8.04.

As I need refocus the laser each time I change the width of the material to engraing y have build Z axis for the Laser Diode, that let me change the focus high from the CNC software. To build this new Z axis, I have used a CD Laser Head, where i have add my engraving laser, and changed the motor by a stepper. Focus demonstration video by Z axis.

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Here you can see the Z axis with the Laser Diode mounted un the bridge of an Epson Stylus Color II.

The guides of Y axis, 20 mm dimeter, in a wood base of 10 mm width, for the Stylus Color II bridge.

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The guides with the X axis support ( bridge ).

Y Axis working using an stepper and a timing beld from and old HP printer.

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X and Z axis mounted over Y axis, and new driver boards.

El conjunto provisional, a la espera de una nueva correa de transmisin ms larga que permita aprovechar el recorrido de las guas, y de un nuevo motor que permita una mayor resolucin y suavidad de movimiento.

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Demonstation video working 3 Axis and and Laser Diode.

In the next picture, you can see the same router with 1W laser diode, a new wood table, a new stepper motor for Y axis with new beld for a more soft and accurate movement.

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LinuxCNC.org. Home of user of the Enhanced Machine Controller - EMC. Chris Radek's stuff. True Type Tracer, AutoCAD G-Code export, Image to G-Code, and more. PyCAM. Toolpath generation for 3-axis CNC machining. Import STL files and export GCode. DXF2GCODE. Translated version of website DXF2GCODE. G-Simple. Freeware CAM for 3 Axis Machining Centers under Windows, but that can run on Wine. NCSim. Yet another (free) CNC 3-axis simulator. CncSimulator. The free professional simulator ofr CNC code.

CNC USB Controller

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Powerful, easy to use, affordable. For Hobbyists and Professionals!

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ElectroMagnetic Applications.

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