DIY Desktop Laser Cutter Made in Japan

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DIY Desktop Laser Cutter Made in Japan

“Laser cutters are expensive!”

People couldn’t afford to have laser cutter for the individual in the past. We really wanted to develop an affordable, useful and capable laser cutter which people could easily afford.

My friend Hirotaka and I worked hard to develop an affordable easy to use laser cutter for about one year. Then finally, our ideas and effort were fully realized.

Desktop Laser Cutter "Smart Laser Mini"

The Smart Laser Mini is Easy to assemble type of laser cutter and engraver. It is completely do it yourself for example you can make engraving marks on many kinds of surfaces and you can even use this laser to cut on many kinds of materials. This laser cutter is compact in size therefore perfect for household use.

Open source

People can be freely modify our software and hardware to expand the processing area and add such as adding additional functions.

1.6 watts diode laser

It adopted 1.6 watts diode laser for the laser parts. The output is strong enough that it can cut 0.079inch (2mm) of material.

V-slot for mechanical parts

We adopted open builds V-slot for our mechanical parts, therefore it is simple and easy to assemble.

Computer software

Computer software works on the Browser. It’s producing by HTML, JavaScript, Python and this is Cross-platform. You can use with Windows、Max OSX、Lunux、Raspberry Pi.

Arduino Mega.

The control board used Arduino Mega

Arduino Mega’s program is based on GRBL

Work examples

These are part of our work examples

Engraved on Pancake

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Raster processing with “Spider” image data file on black polyester film sheet

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Engraved on polypropylene sheet

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Check it out other our work examples on our blog

Manuals

Please refer to the manuals