Month: January 2020

I have slowly been acquiring additional parts for the laser cutter, some via eBay from China, some during holidays in the USA. Adafruit 1947 – 2.8″ TFT Touchscreen shield for Arduino $44.95 Adafruit 196 – Proto-Screwshield (Wingshield) R3 for Arduino $14.95 both these items came direct from Adafruit whilst I was in the USA on holiday and incurred…

Another area I have been working on is the wiring diagram for the laser cutter. This I have been drawing up in Microsoft Visio. Since I have a Mac, and there is no version of Visio for Mac, I make use of a Windows 10 virtual machine that I run under VirtualBox. I obtained genuine…

I have recently been updating my Sketchup model and printed out a few more of pieces. First up was a mount for the air solenoid and water inlet/outlet barbs here with the various items attached, ready to be installed in the frame. Next I decided I wanted to make use of a sheet of copper clad PCB…