The “Blue Lotus” Laser Cutter is a largish 90W CO2 laser cutter with a cutting bed of 1000x400mm, capable of cutting wood, plastic, card, paper and fabric, and engraving more materials.

Machine Status: Working

We use Inkscape to create vector graphics files and then Lightburn software to control the laser.  Bitmap files for engraving can be in pretty much any common image format.

In practise, the machine cuts and engraves up to 970x380mm, cutting wood up to 10mm thick, plastics, paper, card and most textiles.  We have successfully engraved glass and mirrors.