adafruit industries | laser etching services

Adafruit laser services is an appointment only laser etching service in New York City, NY USA - get your laptop, iPod, cell phone or any other gadget laser etched and learn about high powered lasers in person! You will be the one that presses the GO BUTTON to fire the laser beam!

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Pricing starts at $100 USD for laptops/powerbooks and $30 USD for smaller devices like iPods and cell phones. We take credit cards, but prefer cash. Your artwork should be in EPS and/or AI (Illustrator) - but don't worry, we'll help you prepare it. We also offer bulk rates and services for businesses.

To make an appointment, or if you have questions - email us laser@adafruit.com. Before you start, be sure to have your artwork in EPS/AI (black and vector art).

Here are some samples of our recent work for companies and indivduals along with examples of lasered etched devices. We're posting more each week so check back from time to time or check our Flickr account. & RSS feed.

Open business:
We publish how to use the high powered laser system, set up, techniques, business practices and templates. You could start your own laser business, we'll even help - so far it seems there are a few companies that have started up!

The wiki is open and filled with laser -

Laser equipment - Link.
Laser supplies - Link.
Computers used - Link.
Materials to cut & etch - Link.
Settings used - Link.

We also added forums where you can chat with others about lasers, laser etching and share your information - Link.

Lastly, join the laser list for updates (read only):
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/oslb/

For iPod (mirror-like reflective surfaces) we "etch" using an etchant chemical that appears black when laser etched.

Videos:

Shuffle etch! (2) - Link.
iPod! - Link.

More photos:
Laser tagged photos on Flickr - Link.

*Give the gift of laser etching with our laser etching gift certificate. *

About:
Adafruit Industries is an open source business project by Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone. Phil (MAKE magazine) etched his Powerbook a year ago and thought it would be fun to do others and later spent an entire weekend etching hundreds of devices - Limor (Adafruit) thinks it's a good idea to do open source businesses and cuts arcylic for the x0xb0x open source MIDI synth kit.