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Lego CNC/Laser Cutter

Untitled from Tesla on Vimeo.This is a Lego Mindstorms based CNC/Laser Cutter. It has a DC-motor with a drill bit for engraving or a magnifying glass for going out in the sun and cutting paper or thin foam core. It was not design to be a super accurate CNC/Laser Cutter and does not use stepper motors but instead uses mindstorms servo motors. For electronics I used the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT brick and programmed it in the original software but i plan to to program it in NXC and have it engrave the words LEGO. if you like this project please vote and rate for my project thank you .

3 comments

Jul 17, 2011. 10:36 PMcwillard1 says:

wow great idea! im going to build one myself..but programing this must be a pain.

Jul 10, 2011. 7:18 PMthewelltemperedguitar says:

So where is the laser?

Jul 5, 2011. 11:59 AM

graphmastur says:

Not a bad design at all. I wish there were more pictures so I could see how the axis work. I created a 3d printer/plotter for the contest too: http://www.instructables.com/id/Lego-3D-printerplotter/

If you can, I'd like to see you put up an instructable for this. It's pretty neat. Also, having it mill something would be nice too. Maybe a small block of wood or something. I hope they give away more than one makerbot like they did in the makerbot challenge (They gave 5 instead of the 3 they were going to) because I think you are like me, and love makerbots and cnc machines.