[Lab] Fire the laser!

Andrew O'Malley aomalley at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 22:11:30 EDT 2011


+1 on no cutting metal in the laser.

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> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:56:47 -0400
> From: bentfork at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Lab] Fire the laser!
> To: Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com>
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> The laser unfortunately  can't cut through metal.  The best one can do is to
> coat the board in black spraypaint, remove it with the laser and use it as a
> resist.
>
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/01/how-to-use-a-laser-to-etc.html
>
> On 29 August 2011 14:09, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We should try some copper clad board to see if we can cut a PCB with the
>> laser... I've seen some people with fantastic success, and that laser is so
>> fine that we could get some really accurate PCB traces with it.
>>
>> - Paul
>>



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