Do inventables sell a laser for x-carve? anyone got experience buying laser in UK?

[GavinBrookes]

Don’t know where to start with upgrading to a laser on x-carve in the UK? Noob advice needed!

[picengravertoo]

I believe they are in the UK.
https://robosavvy.com/store/jtechphotonics-2-8w-laser-engraving-cutting-kit.html

[GavinBrookes]

Is there anybody who as actually used this laser and given a review, what software used?? and what power will cut what / engrave etc???

[picengravertoo]

Just search for Laser.

Laser added.

JTechPhotonics laser diode working on my X-Carve driven via PWM spindle control from Easel. Needs a bit of work, probably need to get away from Easel unless changes or apps can be written to remove Z movement and replace with PWM control mid job. Cheers Ian

We offer image to gcode programs for Laser engraving Photos. www.picengrave.com

Where is the laser engraving category?

To start this topic off, I want say that I am very impressed how the Shapeoko 2 performs when laser engraving photos, especially with the J-TechPhotonics laser system. We are using the J-Tech grbl that can run X,Y & Z spindle code or X,Y & S PWM laser code and outputs on Pin 11 for the modulation. It can be downloaded here. http://www.picengrave.com/forum/index.php This photo engraving was done on our Shapeoko 2 with the 2.8W J-Tech Shapeoko kit and the g-code was generated with PicEngrave Pr…

[IanWatkins]

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