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Lasercut Treasure Chest
I’ve been working on a little project for a friend during the month of January. It’s a lasercut ‘treasure chest’-looking box that will contain some badges that the kids have to... Read More
Lasercut X-Wing
I found this awesome design on Thingiverse the other day, and I just had to give it a go. Huge props to the designer, it is extremely well designed! Other than that, I’m going to let the picture... Read More
LAYZOR (1) – badass lasercutter
Update: This project is now finished. Final post is here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. My K40 laser cutter has been out of commission for a while now. There was visib... Read More
Laser cutter air assist upgrade – part 5
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. On... Read More
Laser cutter air assist upgrade – part 4
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. Th... Read More
Laser cutter air assist upgrade – part 3
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. I ... Read More
Laser cutter air assist upgrade – part 2
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. I ... Read More
Laser cutter air assist upgrade
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. I ... Read More
Cheap Chinese laser cutter upgrades
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. Ne... Read More
Secret Santa 2021
For the past few years, I’ve participated in a maker-driven Secret Santa. (2019 – 2020 editions writeup) This year I didn’t have too much time on my hands so I revisited an older pro... Read More
Rubberband cars
I’ve been volunteering in a local pop-up fablab to lead laser cutting workshops aimed mostly at children. A singular session only covers the absolute basics: learning how to draw in vector-based... Read More
Secret Santa 2020
Like last year, I recently participated in a maker-related Secret Santa. The person I got to make something for was a nice young lady who is apparently very close with her dog. So I decided to make a ... Read More
Grandmother’s Birthday card
My grandmother turned 95, so I made this lasercut wreath as a gift. Not much else to add, really… 😉... Read More
COVID-19 ear savers
The face shield distribution seems to be caught up in my area, so I decided to look into an emerging need from healthcare workers: ear savers. I started out by using this well-known Thingiverse design... Read More
COVID-19 face shields
These are strange times. Covid-19 is taking the world by storm and a lot of us are temporarily unemployed and holed up at home. The Belgian maker community was very fast to respond to this new reality... Read More
Christmas puzzles
First of all a happy New Year to all readers! This blog has been around for four years now, and it seems people are liking it, so expect more to come! Then again, around the end of the year I usually ... Read More
PSA: Check your water flow!
A friendly reminder to those of you who own a CO2 laser cutter: always make sure your coolant is running! The other day when I was doing some test cuts during the latest batch of upgrades, I forgot to... Read More
LAYZOR final upgrades
I’ve been tinkering with my LAYZOR ever since I’ve built it, and now I believe I have gotten to the point where there isn’t much else to add without having to resort to huge modifica... Read More
Skateboard (5) – Graphics
Previous posts: part 1: Design tool part 2: Mold part 3: Glue-up part 4: Shaping Last thing to do was add some cool graphics. I didn’t want to hide all of the nice maple texture, so I took a min... Read More
Skateboard (3) – Glue-up
Previous posts: part 1: Design tool part 2: Mold Last time I wrapped things up on the mold build. I glued some brass tubes in place so I get perfectly placed drilling guides for the truck mounting hol... Read More
Random filler projects
The photo above is a temperature reading of my laser cooling fluid. Note that the laser hasn’t been fired for weeks. It’s just that damn hot in Belgium right now … Seeing that the am... Read More
Trophy plaque
This year, my brother finished his bike trip around the Belgian border. Just for shits & giggles they held some sort of competition amongst themselves. Long story short at the end there was a R... Read More
Dymaxion Globe
From Wikipedia: ” The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. The flat map i... Read More