Cricut machine coming

[DrewNicholson]

(07-14-2022 05:10 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello!

I take the liberty to hijack this thread because I recently won an eBay auction for a lasercutter/engraver (I paid much less than the worth of the parts, among them a Rasperry Pi, an Arduino, stepper motors, laser and laser goggles). it is more or less the same thing as this one with the difference that it uses a laser beam instead of a knife for cutting.

After some initial tests, all successful, I am now looking for calculator DIY and repair projects where I can employ this device. I already tried to label blank plastic keycaps which works nicely. As long as the keys are not dark colored. Cutting out keyboard overlays will probably work less well than with a knife cutter because the laser does not make perfectly clean cuts.

Regards
Max

I think it would be awesome if we can all help each other out!

Another item I saw on amazon was a cnc router (basically a simple mill). As I get more kids and they get older, I fully intend to acquire toys like this for teaching them stuff. Admittedly, that's like 10 years away, and I love this as a way of doing community service projects for educational purposes!

Thanks for jumping in!

Mahalo