I want a laser cutter but I can't afford one, not even a cheap one from China via ebay, so I looked around youtube and watched a few diy laser cutters and thought that perhaps I could make the hard ware but how do you get a 2d drawing from the pc to control the cutter. Obviously some sort of interface between the pc and the cutter converts the drawing into x and y coordinates via stepper motors which leads me to ask my learned friends of the Picaxe forum
1. Is this possible to do with a Picaxe
2. would it be possible using Google sketchup as the cad
3. If not does anyone know of a suitable but free 2d cad program that could be used.
4. Any ideas anyone
1. Is this possible to do with a Picaxe
2. would it be possible using Google sketchup as the cad
3. If not does anyone know of a suitable but free 2d cad program that could be used.
4. Any ideas anyone