LASER4DIY - Open-Source Laser Structuring for PCB Prototyping
Project description
Laser4DIY is a open-hardware machine for producing electronics boards by ablating copper with the use of a laser. It consists of several parts: a micro-chip based DPSS laser source, driver electronics for the pump laser diode, a cooling system including a 4-channel TEC-Controller, a low-profile, motorized XY table and a safety enclosure. These modules can be used not just in the Laser4DIY device, but also in other setups.
News
- Get the latest news on Twitter: @laser4diy
- The Prototype Fund Hardware did an interview with us (German): Mit dem Laser Platinen herstellen: der Laser4DIY
Info
- Laser source (version 2)
- Micro Chip Laser (English)
- Microchip-Laser (German)
- Laser source (version 1, outdated)
- Nd:YVO4 laser source (English)
- Nd:YVO4 Laserquelle (German)
- Electronics
- TEC (Thermo-Electric Cooling) Controller
- TEC Controller description
- Github Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/TEC-Controller
- Constant Current Power Source (version 2, work in progress)
- Laser Diode Driver (English)
- Laserdioden-Treiber (German)
- Github Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/Laser-Driver-v2
- Constant Current Power Source (version 1, outdated)
- Github Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/Laser-Driver
- Circuit Diagrams:
- GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/Laser4DIY_Electrical
- TEC (Thermo-Electric Cooling) Controller
- Low Profile XY Table
- Low Profile XY Table
- Github Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/XY-Table
- Enclosure
- Github Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/Laser4DIY_Enclosure
Build Your Own Device
- Assembly Guide: Building your own Laser4DIY device
Using Laser4DIY
- User Guide: Using Laser4DIY for Prototyping PCBs
Prototype Fund Hardware
Laser4DIY is part of the first Prototype Fund Hardware funding round.
- Projektseite auf der Webseite des Prototype Fund
- Interview des Prototype Fund mit Andreas über das Projekt
BMBF Project Funding
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research was funding LASER4DIY as a part of the project "Open Photonik".
- Open-Source-Laserstrukturierer für die DIY-Platinenfertigung, www.photonikforschung.de, article from 2016 (German)
- Final Report (German)
Lasersafe - parametric laser experiment enclosure
- Interactive enclosure planner
- Laser safety window materials (interactive diagram) - transmission measurements with common transparent materials
- documentation (in German): Ermittlung der Absorption, Transmission und Reflexion von transparent Materialien
- (German) Mindmap zur Risikobeurteilung
- Laser4DIY Laser-Shutter
- Github Repository: https://github.com/Laser4DIY/Laser4DIY_LaserShutter
Contact:
- Twitter: @laser4diy
- Email: laser@fablab-muenchen.de