Laser Etched Pumpkin (2022)
Finished pumpkin
Thank you to my friend who put their phone in pumpkin guts for this picture!
Motivation:
Who wouldn’t want a fancy pumpkin
Description:
Used 120W epilogue fusion M2 with 2” lens at 55% speed, 100% power, 600dpi with 3 passes. Settings taken from here: https://www.epiloglaser.com/resources/sample-club/engraving-pumpkins.htm
Lessons Learned:
Pumpkin smells bad when it is burned. Don’t use nonsymetric items on the laser rotary or they fall off axis and get messed up. The curvature of a pumpkin doesn’t make a huge difference on how well the laser cutter creates an image.
Dome photo credit:
Aditya Mehrotra
Rotary axis fail