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Lasered Robot Head Paperclips

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Dallas Makerspace had a laser cutter operating class today, so I challenged myself to make something in vector and cut it. These are cut out of 1/16" blue acrylic with a gold topcoat - the same sheet I made my starbag tags out of.

This is a really rough sketch, thrown together with very little regard for symmetry in about 20 minutes. It needs a few tweaks.

We lasered two versions at a max power of 5mA. The large one was lasered with the cut at 40% speed, 100% power; and the engraving at 100% speed, 50% power. The small one was done with with the cutting at 60% speed, 100% power, to avoid the flashing we got on the first cut.

The SVG files are up on Thingiverse [link] so you can make your own if you have access to a laser cutter. And Thingiverse featured them! Yay!
Image size
2592x1944px 2.09 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot A470
Shutter Speed
1/15 second
Aperture
F/3.0
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Oct 30, 2010, 5:36:00 PM
Sensor Size
5mm
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