[Brain] wanted to mark some scissors with his Ortur laser engraver. The problem? The laser won’t cut into the hard metal of the scissors. His solution? Smear the scissors with mustard.
Now I wasn’t 100% sure what I would do with a laser engraver, but I thought it would be a good way to test the waters before putting serious money (and time) into something more powerful.
metal, fabric, acrylic and paper, engraving skills adding plastic and leather to that list, the 40W laser delivers accuracy at 0.01mm, making it easy to render finely detailed designs using ...
This is much more than one of the best laser engravers we've tested. Offered as a 4-in-1 machine, the M1 Ultra packs in a 10W or 20W laser engraver, full-color inkjet printer, cutter, and pen tool.
Zapping the metal with very high-power lasers could ... The thickness and composition of the layers, and the size and shape of the laser etching, can all be chosen to determine the laser’s ...
However, one of the persistent challenges in laser powder-bed fusion ... a novel wet chemical etching process that modifies the surface of conventional metal powders. By creating nanoscale ...
allowing for more effective energy transfer during the laser-melting process. A team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania introduced a ...