Laser etching fun
I’m now the proud semi-owner of an Epilog Mini 24 Laser cutter. After some test cuts, I laser etched the trackpad on my laptop. Everything works great – I used two passes at 100% speed, 15% power to get the result. Here’s a short pictorial of the process.

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Comments
Comment from Kurt Arnlund
Time: March 15, 2008, 5:52 am
What exactly does “semi-owner” mean?
Comment from Daniel
Time: March 15, 2008, 7:53 am
Haha oh man if you messed that up geeze.
Comment from Daniele
Time: March 15, 2008, 9:50 am
Wonderful !!!!
Comment from Sean
Time: March 15, 2008, 8:26 pm
cool! I had no idea that the process could be used on a touchpad….
Comment from Zeph
Time: March 15, 2008, 8:39 pm
Sweet!
Comment from nacro
Time: March 16, 2008, 2:41 am
I love it. I never would have thought about doing a trackpad. Does it etch all metals? can you etch plastic with it? id love to see a hellraiser etched puzzlebox project.
Comment from willo
Time: March 16, 2008, 10:57 pm
semi-owner means that I have to give it back after a while. It can etch finished aluminum, cut and etch plastics, etc… I’m pretty sure that this is the first laser etched trackpad to see the light of day.
Comment from Silent October
Time: March 17, 2008, 2:19 am
This is the most bad-ass thing ever… How about putting your logo on the surface of a DVD-ROM? You could turn around and sell them as “private-label” blank DVDs or something… very cool.
Comment from cheap guitars
Time: December 24, 2008, 6:33 pm
I had no idea about this cool stuff! Gonna buy one!
Comment from bed sets
Time: December 28, 2008, 1:03 am
Yeah, I agree with Silent October, maybe you could design logo on laptop cover too.
Comment from laser etching
Time: October 10, 2009, 8:09 am
This is very cool! I work for a place that does laser etching but the owner only does marble and granite. Maybe if I show him this site he can see the possibilities for himself. I would really like to do cool and creative stuff like this. Thanks for sharing!
Comment from james
Time: March 15, 2008, 12:19 am
What Satellite do you have?