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How far into the material does laser engraving cut?
All you need to know about laser etched depth When your design calls for laser etching, whether it is Line Engraving or Area Fill Engraving, the laser burns away a very small amount of material – just...
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How to: Turn a Logo into a Laser Cut Item
Achieving low cost, high quality results quickly and easily Starting your own line of products can be a challenge, particularly if you’re competing against companies with established backgrounds in...
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Beginners Laser Cutting Cost Saving Guide: Part 1
Keep your laser cutting costs down with the Ponoko Product Recipe Product Recipe #1 Jill is a graphic designer from Oakland, CA. While riding her bike to work, she was inspired to create a set of...
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Beginners Laser Cutting Cost Saving Guide: Part 2
Keep your laser cutting costs down with the Ponoko Product Recipe Product Recipe #1 – Part 2 Jill is a graphic designer from Oakland, CA. While riding her bike to work, she was inspired to create a...
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Beginners Laser Cutting Cost Saving Guide: Part 3
Keep your laser cutting costs down with the Ponoko Product Recipe Product Recipe #1 – Part 3 Jill is a graphic designer from Oakland, CA. While riding her bike to work, she was inspired to create a...
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Beginners Laser Cutting Cost Saving Guide: Part 4
Product Recipe #1 – Part 4 Jill is a graphic designer from Oakland, CA. While riding her bike to work, she was inspired to create a set of custom-made bike gear-themed coasters to sell at local bike...
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The finishing touch: filled laser engraving tutorial
A simple technique for making your laser engraving stand out This week I finished a project I’ve been developing for a while: the Rich Decibels Exenterator. Sound samples and technical details and so...
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Beginners Laser Cutting Cost Saving Guide: Part 4
Product Recipe #1 – Part 4 Jill is a graphic designer from Oakland, CA. While riding her bike to work, she was inspired to create a set of custom-made bike gear-themed coasters to sell at local bike...
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How To: Design a Living Hinge
De-mystifying the ins and outs of laser cut curved surfaces For the most part, laser cut objects consist of flat panels that are either cut or etched before being assembled into a final configuration....
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How To Make Laser Cut Interlocking Acrylic Designs
The Importance of Radii We’ve written about using ‘nodes’ with 3D objects made from wood before, but suggested it may not work for acrylic because it is more brittle and tends to be less forgiving....
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How To Use Nesting Parts in Laser Cutting
A guide to laser cut line optimisation Discussions around the laser cutters at Ponoko continue to highlight how important effective nesting of parts in laser cut files is. Today we are taking a look at...
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How To Make a Customized Jigsaw Puzzle
Laser Cut Educational Toys Personalised toys can make a great gift, adding something unique and memorable to show how much you care. It’s one of those things that many people think about doing, but...
View ArticleTen tutorials on digital fabrication
Best of the blog 2011 – Tutorials Knowledge-sharing is central to the open design and distributed manufacturing movements. Here are ten of the best tutorials from 2011: 3D printing and laser-cutting...
View ArticleLaser-Cut head with a secret compartment
Instructables tutorial: slice up your loved ones, hide your treasures inside. Ever wondered what the CEO of Autodesk gets up to in his spare time? This guide from CarlBass on Instructables gives us a...
View ArticlePibow: stacked laser-cut enclosure
A new way of building DIY electronics project boxes Since the Raspberry Pi launched six months ago, a huge ecosystem of enclosure designs have sprouted up out of the creative commons community. The...
View ArticleGet to know your laser cutter better
DIY Kerf measuring tool refines your laser cutting precision Although it isn’t critical on all laser cut projects, for anything with parts that fit or slot together, kerf is something that is worth...
View ArticleWhat is Laser Cutting?
Taking a step back to go through some laser cutter basics. What is laser cutting, and why are we so excited about it? As we’ll see in this brief overview, laser cutting is a relatively simple...
View ArticleThe basics of laser cutting with Ponoko
Helpful advice on how to get started with the Ponoko Personal Factory For those who have always wanted to give Ponoko a go but are not sure where to start, this training video shows just how easy it is...
View Article10 things to know before laser cutting with Ponoko
Useful information for both new users and laser cutting veterans Are you a seasoned Ponoko maker? Or perhaps your imagination has been tingling and you are bursting to make your very first Ponoko...
View ArticleVector Path Crosshatching
A quicker, cheaper alternative to raster fill engraving Vector or Raster? It’s a question that has goes back to the earliest days of laser etching. Here is an interesting little exploration from the...
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