====== Costa's crazy LASER CUTTER project ======

===== Basic plan =====
Building budget laser cutter based on H-bot mechanics suitable for 1.2m long laser tube.

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  -  Draw a bill of material, software, suppliers, people involved.

New workshop activities:
  -  Design in TinkerCAD - (50% done)
  -  3D print parts
  -  Source parts from BOM, find suitable piece of ply or HPL panel - 1300x1300mm (for 900x900mm cutting envelope) or 1300x1000mm (900x600mm cutting envelope) etc.
  -  Assemble the mechanics and test it with a laser pointer.
  -  Build the enclosure and safety switches

G2 workshop activities:
  -  Install CO2 laser tube
  -  Connect extraction and watercooling to the cutter
  -  Profit

Some updates:
It seems to me that we need to make a laser with 90x65x3cm working envelope. It will let us to use standard 4x8ft sheets cut into 6 parts (813x610mm).
The Design/CAM software generating the G-codes is - https://github.com/LaserWeb/LaserWeb3
The controller will be RAMPS 1.4 to begin with

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It turns out that it will be a minimum of 127x83x16cm dimensions (our current one is 125x75x25cm)
Check out my super sneaky slant lasertube!

Progress
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===== Pledges =====
  * Costa £100
  * Al £50
  * Bernie £100
  * ww £100