Semiconductors / Electronics Lasers can mark, trim, or cut IC chips, printed circuit boards (PCBs), dies, or semiconductor wafers. Soft / Fibrous (Textiles, Foams, Paper) Laser machines or heads can ...

If you can find a machine to use at a library or a hackerspace, then you should learn on that. There are even services that will do laser cutting for you for a fee. Once you have a feel for what ...

AMADA AMERICA has designed its HRB series press brakes for versatility and ease of use. According to the manufacturer, when ...

[Amanda Ghassaei] has created an awesome hack for making your own vinyl records using a laser cutter from an MP3 file. Her excellent hack uses a Processing sketch that converts a digital audio ...

Some laser processing equipment provides versatility beyond just two dimensional (2-D) devices such as XY or gantry cutting tables. For example, 3-D laser processing equipment welds, cuts, drills, ...

So now the machine is set up, it's time to get cutting. Laser cutters get extremely hot, so as it cuts, the machine cools the material by blowing compressed air. Depending on the material ...

To that end, Picardat described three ingredients that together create sustainable productivity improvement: (1) review the ...

Crafters, scrapbookers, and designers alike view die cutting machines as indispensable tools. These machines effortlessly and accurately cut out complex patterns, shapes, and letters from a ...

Of these processes cutting demands the most power – usually a beam of more than 1 kW. “Laser diodes, and solid, or fibre, lasers are the main technologies used in manufacturing today ...

The annexed engraving is a perspective view of a machine for cutting paper, pasteboard, c, for which a patent was granted on I the 19th of last July (1853) to H. J. Oerter, ? of Bethlehem ...

In this Focus, our authors explore different facets of the changing relationship between humans and machines, from current language tools to future potential interactive partners. They discuss the ...