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December 21, 2006
Lasing Around
So, Phil Torrone (of Make Magazine fame) teamed up with Limor Fried to start an open-source-business-model laser etching service in downtown NYC, Adafruit Industries Laser Services.
The victim? My MacBook!
The Epilog laser etcher. I want one.
After making an appointment with Phil and sending him my artwork, I headed on down to Jones St. Phil tweaked the art on his MacBook Pro before moving it over to a PC connected to an Epilog laser etching machine. The Epilog is capable of etching up to 1200dpi, so your artwork can be extremely detailed and will be etched precisely.
Measure twice, lase once. That's the last use of the word "lase," I promise.
The vector art on a PC hooked to the Epilog.
Before etching my MacBook, we made a paper proof - lowering the laser's power allows it to "write" onto standard copy paper, so that we could check the alignment of the design before forever etching the art into the MacBook.
Lining up the 'Book.
Prepping to make a paper proof.
And I got to press the green GO button. It was awesome!
Here goes!
No turning back now - as the laser flies back and forth, the design starts to take shape.
Almost done...
The final product. Shnazzy.
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