Trotec laser retrofit with 40W CO2 tube
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I have an old Trotec laser engraver. It was built in 1998 and worked quite well until this summer 2023. So I would say that it was a very reliable machine but it now suffers from its old age:laser tube is deadsoftware is very very old fashioned and runs (tries to run) under windows 95 operating systemSo it was time to trash this machine... But it looked so professionnal that I decided to refurbish it with more modern electronics.As I am an hobbyist I couldn't afford to buy a new RF laser tube, so I decided to change it to a cheap 40W CO2 tubeAs I love ESP32 and micro controllers I decided as well to design my own controller boards based on GRBL FluidNC software.Follow this project to see how all this can work as expected !Result here : https://youtu.be/0KS32yQQGEoFull project is open sourceOpen hardware and accessible on my Hackaday's project page : https://hackaday.io/project/193893-retrofitting-an-old-laser-engraver
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