WE JUST GOT A LASER CUTTER!
Sorry for the caps but I'm excited, it's been on the list for some time but we've finally got one. Spurred on by the lovely folk at Adafruit as well as a good few others, we finally took the plunge with the view that we can manufacture some of Adafruit's products in the UK and it will slowly but surely pay for itself, whist we develop our own awesome laser cut goodies.
Here it was first thing today:
We purchased it from some cool dudes in Halifax called HPC, as recommended by some other cool dudes (Aaron from Oomlout, MSRaynsford and Dominic Morrow to name but three). Ordered on Friday afternoon, dispatched Monday and arrived Tuesday, with great instructions and pretty much ready to go. So much so we were cutting within a couple of hours - feeling ever so glad that the old laptop with it's XP operating system would still take a charge.
Considering the purpose was to manufacture some of Adafruit's products that was our first goal! After a few hours of nervous tinkering and fearful turning of the dial we finally hit 11 and cut through our first sheet of 3mm Acrylic to produce...
A UK made Adafruit Raspberry Pi Box! Some more tinkering needs to be applied and also the etching and proofing by the folks in New York city before we start selling these but I'm pretty pleased with the results with just a few hours laser experience.
Oh and we also produced this...
3 comments:
Top work on the case, and a great bit of kit. Look forward to seeing more laser cut goodies!
Al.
Laser cutting is awesome. To see ideas go from screen to in-your-hand in a few hours is really exciting. Check out the HPC (Laserscript) forums for ideas and tips for looking after your machine.
I got my cutter from HPC - a really top company with excellent support.
Cheers Al! Chris, I think you may have convinced me on an HPC laser via Google+, I had considered going bigger and cheaper from China but I'm immensely pleased I purchase from HPC.
Post a Comment