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Custom Laser Cutting Service
Our laser cutting service is ideal for making custom parts out of various sheet materials. Capabilities include cutting, scoring, and engraving with our laser cutters, plus color UV-printing. Pricing starts at $25, and most orders ship in three business days. We also offer expedited services, up to our same-day service; local customers can pick up parts the same day, or have them shipped to your door the very next day!
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We now offer UV printing and more metal laser cutting capabilities!
- 13 December 2023I’m excited to share some exciting improvements to our Custom Laser Cutting Service: a greatly expanded range of metal cutting capabilities and UV...
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Laser cutting part of a 50:1 model of the James Webb Space Telescope
- 28 March 202350:1 scale model of the James Web Space Telescope model with laser-cut and etched gold-mirror acrylic and gold-mirror styrene parts. Retired...
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"Serenade"; 3D Mixed-Media Artwork by Tammy Carmona
- 29 November 2021Artist Tammy Carmona recently used our laser cutting service to help create her 3D mixed-media artwork, “Serenade”, pictured above. Carmona writes...
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Curtis's laser-cut arcade stick case
- 1 September 2021Hello, I’m Curtis, an engineering intern at Pololu. I’m studying mechanical engineering at University of California, Irvine. I’ve been playing a...
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Starlite by Grant Grummer
- 2 October 2020Grant Grummer used our laser cutting service to create 6- and 8-point acrylic stars for his project, Starlite: A programmable star-shaped canvas for...
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Laser-cut teapot coasters
- 24 April 2019This past weekend my mom hosted a tea-themed baby shower for me, and after looking around and not finding any party favors I liked, I decided to...
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Video: Easy Acrylic Unmasking
- 3 January 2019We do a lot of laser cutting here at Pololu as part of our custom laser-cutting service, so we know first hand how tedious it can be to remove the...
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Modified Han Solo toy blaster controls LED displays of Star Wars characters
- 12 July 2018A while ago, I made a wedding gift for some friends, both of whom are avid Star Wars fans. The gift was basically a multi-piece decorative set...
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Video: LVBots May 2018 line following competition
- 13 June 2018LVBots held a line following competition at Pololu on May 24th. This time we had our “classic” line following course like in previous competitions,...
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Beatty Robotics Curiosity rover replica
- 26 March 2018Our favorite team of robot-making sisters over at Beatty Robotics has finished making another stellar robot! Their latest creation is a 1/10th...
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Laser-cut jewelry by Melissa Cameron
- 23 February 2018Laser cutting is an excellent way to make intricate parts for jewelry or decorations. These fantastic jewelry art pieces were designed by Melissa...
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Ten-Tec 1254 Receiver Display Upgrade Kit
- 27 April 2017Edward Cholakian (call sign KB1OIE) makes and sells a Ten-Tec 1254 Receiver Display Upgrade Kit that is designed to upgrade a Ten-Tec 1254 shortwave...
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Custom laser cutting for retro-gaming TV enclosure
- 5 April 2017One of our customers used our custom laser cutting service to cut the birch plywood panels for his retro-gaming TV system that he sells on Etsy....
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Science Olympiad 2017 robot arm competition
- 3 March 2017Congratulations to Matthew Siracusa and William Rule who placed first in the Robot Arm competition of the Science Olympiad SE PA Regional...
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Steel custom laser cutting available
- 2 March 2017We’ve been offering quick-turn custom laser cutting service ever since “we” were just Candice and Jan operating a tabletop Epilog out of their...
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GoonieBox: a puzzling piece of interactive furniture
- 22 February 2017Customer Guido Bonelli Jr., who is also the creator of the Dr.Duino Arduino shield, had us laser cut pieces of baltic birch for a unique piece of...
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Animatronic tentacle mechanism using Pololu Universal Mounting Hubs
- 14 September 2016While our Universal Mounting Hubs are mainly intended as general-purpose adapters for motor shafts, it seems that they can also be used...
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Kevin's mini-sumo robot: Roku
- 18 November 2015My robot, Roku, was the champion of LVBots’ August mini-sumo competition. While I didn’t have the time or inspiration to make it look like anything...
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S3 Pilot board robot
- 28 August 2015Forum member spiked3, whom we previously posted about, has shared another robot with a custom laser cut chassis. The new robot uses his own custom...
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Jeremy's line following robot: Zumo Slim
- 15 May 2015I recently competed in the LVbots line following robot challenge, where I took third place with the fourth fastest robot (due to lucky placement in...
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Brandon's line following robot: The Chariot
- 6 May 2015For the recent LVBots line following competition, my first instinct was to try to come up with some unique alternative design for a robot that would...
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Jon's line following robot: Usain Volt 2.0
- 4 May 2015Like other developers and engineers here, I made a robot for the LVBots Line Following Contest. This post describes my robot, Usain Volt 2.0, and...
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Odin sculpture and laser-cut model
- 12 January 2015DeWitt Godfrey, a sculptor and professor at Colgate University, used our custom laser cutting service to create a 15% scale polystyrene prototype...
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Robotic arm using Mini Maestro at the Nashville Mini Maker Faire
- 4 December 2014Inspired by this robotic arm tutorial, Andrew Hoover recently posted on our forum about a robotic arm he made for the Nashville Mini Maker Faire....
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RoboNUC: Netduino and LIDAR robot
- 16 September 2014Pololu forum member spiked3 recently shared a sophisticated robot he made called RoboNUC. It uses a Netduino and a LIDAR module and was intended to...
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Roboceratops - Robot Dinosaur
- 12 August 2014Robert Stephenson (blobbington) posted about his robot dinosaur, Roboceratops, on the Trossen Robotics forums. Roboceratops is a small robotic...
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Apeiros robot Kickstarter
- 15 July 2014Abe Howell posted to our forum about a Kickstarter campaign for a robot he calls Apeiros. It is an open-source robot he designed as a teaching tool...
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ORBIS - Wooden Kinetic and Lighting Sculpture
- 6 June 2014Guido Bonelli Jr. of Innovative Electronic Solutions LLC created the ORBIS Wooden Kinetic and Lighting Sculpture for a client’s home using our...
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Maker Faire demo: automated treasure chest with jrk motor controller and linear actuator
- 25 April 2014This blog post is part of a continuing series of blogs about the demos that Pololu displayed at our booth at Las Vegas Mini Maker Faire 2014. For...
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Jon's dead reckoning robot
- 10 April 2014Like other engineers here, I made a robot for the LVBots dead reckoning competition. Before I knew about this competition, I hadn’t made a...
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Paul's dead reckoning robot
- 1 April 2014This post is about my first-place entry in the 2014 LVBots Dead Reckoning Competition, a 150 mm round robot named paul-dead-reckoning2.88ec5df. I...
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R2-DR, Kevin's dead reckoning robot
- 26 March 2014When I first started planning a robot for the recent LVBots dead reckoning competition, it was more or less a conventional design—a flat chassis...
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Brandon's dead reckoning robot
- 25 March 2014For the recent LVBots dead reckoning competition that was hosted here at Pololu, I decided to make a robot based on the Baby Orangutan robot...
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Power Level Indicator for Ghostbusters Proton Gun
- 19 March 2014Justin Chase Black (Throwing Chicken) is an artist and long-time laser cutting client who uses laser-cut parts in his prop and replica builds....
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Hope's Edge LED Banner
- 6 February 2014Local indie artist and Pololu employee Tracey, intent on reviving her programming skills and exploring her budding interest in electronics, shed...
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Personalize your own Christmas ornaments
- 13 December 2013Using our Custom Laser Cutting Service, you can design and cut your own Christmas ornaments. Whether this is to decorate your own tree (and show...
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Laser-cut chandeliers by Nicole Ketchum
- 2 December 2013While our laser cutting machines can only cut two dimensional parts, there are easy ways to make three-dimensional designs out of flat, laser-cut...
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Not your average alarm clock!
- 6 November 2013Leonid Karchevsky, of Xronos Clock, used our Custom Laser Cutting Service to create an enclosure for his Arduino Based Talking Alarm Clock, the...