{"id":935,"date":"2012-05-17T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:49:39","slug":"dvd-stepper-controlled-tape-burning-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/dvd-stepper-controlled-tape-burning-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Stepper controlled tape burning laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000041-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1000041\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000041-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000041-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000041.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve combined the <a href=\"\">laser<\/a> and the <a href=\"\">DVD stepper<\/a>. To control the motion of the laser while burning a piece of tape. It&#8217;s basically a proof of concept to see if this is worth doing on an XY stage (made of DVD parts).<\/p>\n<p>It works pretty well! I left the laser etching away at the tape for 5mins and it cut a pretty regular line in the tape. There&#8217;s still quite a lot to play around with, but getting there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000044-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1000044\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000044-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000044-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000043-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1000043\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000043-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1000043-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imu63XU7yvk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: cpp; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nconst int motorPin1 =11;\r\nconst int motorPin2 =10;\r\nconst int motorPin3 =9;\r\nconst int motorPin4 =8;\r\n \r\nvoid setup() {\r\n  \/\/ initialize the digital pin as an output.\r\n  \/\/ Pin 13 has an LED connected on most Arduino boards:\r\n  pinMode(motorPin1, OUTPUT);\r\n  pinMode(motorPin2, OUTPUT);\r\n  pinMode(motorPin3, OUTPUT);\r\n  pinMode(motorPin4, OUTPUT);\r\n}\r\n \r\nvoid loop() {\r\n \/\/ HALF STEP\r\n  int motorDelay=50; \r\n  for(int n=0;n&lt;60;n++) {\r\n\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, LOW);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);\r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);  \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);  \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, LOW);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, LOW);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);\r\n  }\r\n  \r\n  for(int n=0;n&lt;60;n++) {\r\n    digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, LOW);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, LOW);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);  \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);  \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, HIGH);\r\n  delay(motorDelay); \r\n \r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin1, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin2, LOW);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin3, HIGH);\r\n  digitalWrite(motorPin4, LOW);\r\n  delay(motorDelay);\r\n  }     \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve combined the laser and the DVD stepper. To control the motion of the laser while burning a piece of tape. It&#8217;s basically a proof of concept to see if this is worth doing on an XY stage (made of DVD parts). It works pretty well! I left the laser etching away at the tape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-f5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}