Use your bot with a laser engraving attachment

[myxpykalix]

I saw this and it at least looked interesting. I didn't look for a price....
http://www.picengrave.com/

[cowboy1296]

interesting

[Davo]

If I read that right the laser is only 2.5watts, very weak

Seems 40watt is even considered weak on the true engravers

Which is the one I just ordered, but it's upgradable to 90watts

[coryatjohn]

Curious about the 90 watt laser. Could you include a link to such a device? What about a controller and how does one go about turning it on and off at the appropriate times?

[Studio-N]

If I read that right the laser is only 2.5watts, very weak
Seems 40watt is even considered weak on the true engravers
Which is the one I just ordered, but it's upgradable to 90watts

Apples and Oranges here. Yours is probably a CO2 laser. These units are a diode laser. different technology.
to raster engrave wood only about 25 watts of CO2 laser power is needed. 40 watts on a vector cut will do 1/4" wood.
They're getting a pretty good raster engraving , so just by the looks they are acheiving the same amount of pinpoint
heat as a 30 watt CO2. Doubtful they will be cutting thru anything but the thinest of woods and plastics. cheers!

[knight_toolworks]

Plus our bots don't have the speed or resolution for it.

[myxpykalix]

Mine was just a cursory read thru the link but from what i gathered this was for "burning an image on" as opposed to cutting thru material. I guess for that you would need something stronger.

[Davo]

The lasers I'm talking about are not an addon unfortunately, they are the actual units, fslaser.com / automation technologies, rabbit lasers, boss lasers

[Brady Watson]

Vectric PhotoVCarve is pretty slick if you haven't tried it. No laser needed.

-B

[Davo]

The reason I looked into a laser was for granite and other hard material, also this 12x12 sample image only took 30min where as my diamond drag bit takes hours and cannot reproduce photos on granite.

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[cowboy1296]

is it Watt season yet?