It is very fortunate sometimes to meet people who have a passion to create new things and to improve on the methods to make them. This post is about Paul Steinmeyer’s adventure in creating PCB’s using his new J Tech 2.8W laser upgrade kit. Paul is a Health Physicist specializing in electronics and software design at Radiation […]
Learn About Our Custom Lulzbot Mini Laser Conversion We recently got a request to complete a full conversion of a lulzbot mini into a laser machine. We love printing with our lulzbot, but it is even cooler as a laser machine! The post details the conversion process in case someone else want to perform it […]
Acrylic Cutting 2.8W Laser Upgrade Kit So we get a lot of questions on whether the lasers can cut acrylic… The answer is YES! Now the 2.8W laser has enough power at manufacturers specified current to cut through acrylic with enough speed to make it worth it! The sample in the video and the pictures […]
The guys over at Zen Toolworks have made instructions on upgrading the Zen Toolworks CNC machines. It looks pretty awesome! They even added a cool enclosure to the entire machine. There are instructions for both of their style kits, the Mach 3 kit and the Arduino kit. Check it out at the indestructibles website: http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-Zen-Toolworks-CNC-with-Laser-Engraver/ They […]
MicroController for Laser Current Monitoring Many people have been asking how they might monitor the current on their laser driver board while it is running on their machines. Many people want to hook up an Arduino board to it and put an LCD to constantly watch the laser current so it is easy to adjust […]
So we have been holding off here at J Tech Photonics on offering the newer high power diodes in the 9mm package. Why you ask? Mostly just because they come from very expensive sources and the price per diode was over the budget of many of our customers. We also wanted to make sure that […]
So we got an interesting question the other day: Can you laser mark circuit boards with your laser kit? We first thought, well sure, it probably works. Let’s throw it on the laser-bot and see how GOOD it works! So we did… It turns out that 1W is plenty of power to remove the FR4 […]
UPDATE 10/5/2022 – J Tech has designed and produces it’s own goggles, so no need to worry about our quality. When looking for laser goggles, it is easy to find many vendors supplying them at low cost prices, just look out for what you are going to get. Quality of these goggles is probably suspect […]
Can the Laser Upgrade kit cut Poster Board and Thick Card Stock? Why yes! We have been getting this question lately by a few people who have interesting projects lined up if it can cut well. So we decided to go out and buy some poster board and card stock (and even a hanging file […]
We have been getting a lot of inquiries about the ability to cut hobby foam core board. So we decided to cut out a bit of time and do an investigation in the lab. We went to a few stores to get a few examples of different foam board to test. Here are the foam […]
