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Custom Laser Cutting Service
Our laser cutting service is ideal for making custom parts out of various sheet materials. 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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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...