Trotec Laser Retrofit With 40W CO2 Tube 3D Printer Model

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Summary

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 dead
  • software is very very old fashioned and runs (tries to run) under windows 95 operating system

So 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 tube
  • As 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/0KS32yQQGEo

Full 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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