LaserStacker: Fabricating 3D Objects by Laser Cutting and Welding

LaserStacker uses the laser cutter to not only cut but also to weld. Users place not one acrylic sheet, but a stack of acrylic sheets into their cutter. In a single process, LaserStacker cuts each individual layer to shape (through all layers above it), welds layers by melting material at their interface, and heals undesired cuts in higher layers. When users take out the object from the laser cutter, it is already assembled.
This is a project from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute.
More Information:
hpi.de/baudisch...
LaserStacker is a research project by
Udayan Umapathi, www.udayan-u.com/
Hsiang-Ting Chen, www.ht-timchen....
Stefanie Mueller, www.stefaniemue...
Ludwig Wall,
Anna Seufert,
Patrick Baudisch, www.patrickbaud...

[@roidroid]

Does it weld by adjusting it's focus?

[@CB-sf6fp]

Awesome work! Glad someone finally took the time to use a common tool to its greater potential. On an unrelated note: What music did you use in this video?

[@lingroup1]

Is there a plan to release this to the public?

[@TMS5100]

or you could just glue the layers together for much better mechanical strength.

[@llewgibson]

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