{"id":71,"date":"2013-06-12T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-06-14T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T09:14:01","slug":"its-a-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a &#8220;Laser&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I plan on building an interchangable head for the desktop CNC. One head with a spindle for drilling and milling and another with a laser for laser cutting thin wood, paper, card, and plastics.<\/p>\n<p>The laser arrived yesterday from <a title=\"IR Laser\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/180706494763?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649\">Laserlands<\/a>. Safety first, I also bought suitable safety goggles. It is a 800 mW 808 nm infra-red laser with focusable lens and TTL on-off control. The same laser is used in a ShapeOko <a title=\"ShapeOko Laser Cutter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeoko.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Laser_Cutter\">upgrade<\/a> for laser cutting.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tested the laser yet. Waiting for my 12V power supply to arrive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.eyemonline.com\\\/?p=71&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:54165005}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 481px;\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-original-height=\"481\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 481px;\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-original-height=\"481\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.eyemonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2784.jpg\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"636\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"477\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"70\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2784.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1371015813&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.13&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IR Laser\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Focusable 800mW 808nm (infra-red) laser with TTL control. Supplied by www.laserlands.com.&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2784-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2784.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.eyemonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2784.jpg?w=636&#038;h=477\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" data-original-width=\"636\" data-original-height=\"477\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IR Laser\" alt=\"IR Laser\" style=\"width: 636px; height: 477px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> 800mW 808nm (infra-red) Laser. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I plan on building an interchangable head for the desktop CNC. One head with a spindle for drilling and milling and another with a laser for laser cutting thin wood, paper, card, and plastics. The laser arrived yesterday from Laserlands. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,8],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FgN7-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eyemonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}