[sudo-discuss] giant laser for the robot

[Jake]

I forgot to include this link:

http://www.idacontrol.com/articles.php?nid=10

and a picture of the laser:

http://i.imgur.com/eXwf7Lo.jpg

I looked it up and to put out 75 watts of laser power, we should probably 
feed in about 187 watts, or 2.5 times as much DC power in.  That means we 
need 112 watts of cooling with the liquid path.

we can put sonar sensors on the front of the laser so we can pre-focus it 
by distance while preparing works to be cut.

-jake

On Wed, 11 May 2016, Jake wrote:

> we got a giant laser for the robot.  This will allow it to cut things 
> precisely for us, even if they're really large.
>
> of course to do this we'll have a safety interlock to prevent use by 
> untrained people, and we'll have a safety curtain or folding wall to deploy 
> around the robot while the laser is enabled, so nobody can accidentally see 
> the light coming from it.
>
> I don't know the wavelength of the laser, but it's a giant laser diode array 
> with a lens on the end, and it has a water cooling jacket, and i think i was 
> told it's a 75 watt laser.  we do have a way to power it.
>
> if anyone wants to get involved with playing with this, please let me know. 
> I think we could get it to the point where it could cut through some serious 
> stuff, and the extremely large work area of the robot is a big deal.
>
> -jake
>