Instructables member Patrick Panikulam has created a versatile wireless Arduino pen plotter and laser engraver, powered by an Arduino UNO microcontroller and offering a work area of 200 x 162 mm and ...

If you have an old inkjet printer gathering dust in your office or home and fancy building your own vector graphics plotter, you might be interested in this project created by YouTube user The ...

Lasers are some of the coolest devices around. We can use them to cut things, create laser light shows, and also as a rangefinder.[Ignas] wrote in to tell us about [Berryjam’s] AMAZING write-up on ...

Some people have all the luck. [MakerMan] writes in to gloat tell us about a recent trip to the junkyard where he scored a rather serious looking laser cutter. This is no desktop-sized K40 we’re ...

In this project, we create a joystick-controlled laser by connecting two servos to a joystick and using this setup as a pan-and-tilt controller for a laser pointer. The following is excerpted from the ...

A laser projector creates a light show that seems to be coming from dozens of laser beams. It only needs a single laser beam to create the effect because the beam is diffracted as it emerges from the ...

While it’s well know that a cheap pen laser is great entertainment for the cats in your life, why shouldn’t you automate the process? To that end La Fabrique DIY has built an automated system powered ...

As a preview of his latest book, Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects to Get You Started, Mark Geddes takes us through the project to create a simple laser trip wire alarm. You've probably ...

It's definitely not the most efficient way to get a clock on your wall, or the cheapest, but if you're looking for a clock that turns heads, looks cool, and is a great starter project if you're ...