Uh oh.... another toy of creation in the making.
x y cnc laser $350.
Gents
I see several of you chatting about adding a laser to your tool bag. I have a Shark HD and pondered adding the $950 laser kit..... but frankly I just want to be able to inscribe some stuff and use it to drop my logo on the back of my carvings... instead of a hot iron.
I found the Bachin laser that gives me about a 15 x 20 footprint to print in. it took 2 hours to build and another hour to learn some basics. It is basically and 2 axis belt drive CNC laser. I have done lots of little logos and stuff. For under $400 it is a sweet, add to the tool box and I think a fine way to figure out Laser stuff.
The entire assembled thing weighs under 10 pounds, comes very well packaged with all the parts separated in a plastic box with allan head screws for assembly. I can lift it up and slide a full piece under it and away it goes. It has a simple test mode to set it up to see what area it works in. I down loaded the software in about 2 minutes. the instructions are not great, as is the support. but I am limping along and will spend more time later to figure the balance out. but for now I can laser my logo, tell a quick story on the back of a carving and burn stupid sayings on wooden spoons for my wife's gift store.
I have not figured out how to change power, other than to set it to burn slower. and changing size seems to have to be done when you set up the DXF file.. I use Aspire to create DXF files. THis thing is also in metric and I have not found out how to change it. But assume that I" in aspire is 1 MM the project display board...
Some thing for your to ponder....
bachin_d8-4050p [Bachin Maker WIKI]
I see several of you chatting about adding a laser to your tool bag. I have a Shark HD and pondered adding the $950 laser kit..... but frankly I just want to be able to inscribe some stuff and use it to drop my logo on the back of my carvings... instead of a hot iron.
I found the Bachin laser that gives me about a 15 x 20 footprint to print in. it took 2 hours to build and another hour to learn some basics. It is basically and 2 axis belt drive CNC laser. I have done lots of little logos and stuff. For under $400 it is a sweet, add to the tool box and I think a fine way to figure out Laser stuff.
The entire assembled thing weighs under 10 pounds, comes very well packaged with all the parts separated in a plastic box with allan head screws for assembly. I can lift it up and slide a full piece under it and away it goes. It has a simple test mode to set it up to see what area it works in. I down loaded the software in about 2 minutes. the instructions are not great, as is the support. but I am limping along and will spend more time later to figure the balance out. but for now I can laser my logo, tell a quick story on the back of a carving and burn stupid sayings on wooden spoons for my wife's gift store.
I have not figured out how to change power, other than to set it to burn slower. and changing size seems to have to be done when you set up the DXF file.. I use Aspire to create DXF files. THis thing is also in metric and I have not found out how to change it. But assume that I" in aspire is 1 MM the project display board...
Some thing for your to ponder....
bachin_d8-4050p [Bachin Maker WIKI]
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