My latest project

[Dmitriy Kumets]

Hi!
After doing production jobs of 400 wine glasses and thousands of dog tags, I figured it was time to do something fun. My day job is working at a tech company with servers all over the world so I made this computer/arduino controlled panel. Laser cut out of prefinished 1/4" birch. I loved working with pre-finished plywood but after cutting it down to 18x24 pieces, it would warp like no tomorrow. If only there was pre-finished BB.

The panel is 23"x23"x6" so to make the cutting work on an 18x24 laser, I had to split the front and back into two pieces. The sides (23x6) cut just fine.

The map is from http://www.vectorworldmap.com/ with some of the smaller islands removed. I used vectors/ color mapping for the map and love how crisp the results were.


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Full write up at http://www.nerdkraft.com/?p=132

[Dee Gallo]

That's really neat Dmitriy, it's also one of the few boxes where I think the black dovetail tabs look sharp design-wise!

cheers, dee

[Tim Bateson]

Nice job Dmitriy!

[Craig Matheny]

Looks Nice plus I love opendns free plug

[Dmitriy Kumets]

Thanks! After years of trying to clean up the char, I have finally embraced it The pre-finished ply makes it really easy to clean the face which is awesome. I also used a vector turbo accelerator (air assist blowing down at 90 PSI). that made the charred edges dark but clean to the touch!

OpenDNS is awesome. I've been working there for almost 3 years now and always make something for the annual company birthday party. Year 1 was acrylic edge lit sign. Year 2 was edge lit acrylic dog tags. This year's had to be something new

[Craig Matheny]

I also used a vector turbo accelerator (air assist blowing down at 90 PSI). that made the charred edges dark but clean to the touch!

Was it any faster with the accelerator?

[Dmitriy Kumets]

It was faster but equally importantly, the wood came off the machine with a light caramel color edge that was clean to the touch instead of charred, dirty edge. I did not do any cleanup on this wood. NONE! That alone makes it worthwhile to me.

[Robert Walters]

Very nice Dmitriy,

Too bad you couldn't find some of these old school style volt meters...

[Adrian Hill]

What is the purpose of the voltmeters?

You could open them up and replace their faces with faces of your own design.

[Emma austin]

Glad to see you kept New Zealand!! When you said you skipped some of the smaller islands I thought you might have cut us!!!