Finally got to play with a laser engraver. In addition to
cutting/piercing and "printing" by burning tiny dots into things, it can
also do low relief "carving" using a gray scale image where WHITE means
Don't Burn, BLACK means Burn Deepest and grays are in between. LOTS of
Wild Hare possibilities with this thing. Creating gray scale patterns
in PhotoShop to "carve" is interesting.

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...ngraving1.html

This one was a synthesis (combining) of two ideas and the use of a saved
"failure".

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...oxWfinial.html

charlie b

"charlie b" wrote:in message ...
Finally got to play with a laser engraver. (CLIP)
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Thanks for posting this. The possibilities seem endless.

Buried in one of the links is a mention of a public access shop which
charges a monthly membership fee, and which includes this type of device.

Leo Lichtman wrote:
Buried in one of the links is a mention of a public access shop which
charges a monthly membership fee, and which includes this type of device.

The public access shop mentioned, The Saw Dust Shop is in Sunnyvale,
California, in the south end of San Francisco Bay.

http://www.thesawdustshop.com/build.asp

As you can see if you go through the photos of the shop, in addition to
power
tools, the shop also has hand tools as well.They also have a Shop Bot
cnc unit
that will handle a 4x8 sheet goods.

"charlie b" wrote in message
...
Leo Lichtman wrote:
Buried in one of the links is a mention of a public access shop which
charges a monthly membership fee, and which includes this type of device.

The public access shop mentioned, The Saw Dust Shop is in Sunnyvale,
California, in the south end of San Francisco Bay.

That's too bad, I'm about 600 miles from the North end of the bay ...