like many of the other PCB printers we’ve seen. Instead of printing out the board artwork to a transparency or mask, [Tixiv] used a 1 Watt 445nm blue laser with a hexagonal mirror to directly ...

[andre] sent in his first attempt at using a HD-DVD laser diode to expose photosensitive resist to create PC boards. We’ve been meaning to give this a shot with the ol’ Epilog laser cutter.

Plug in a pen, and it’ll draw logos or schematics in a flash. You can even engrave and burn laser images into all sorts of materials. With 10-watt and 40-watt lasers, I carved out a wooden Pokémon ...