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Hacking K3 Laser Engraver

reverse engineering a cheap laser engraver protocol

marcel-ochsendorfMarcel Ochsendorf
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This project was created on 02/07/2019 and last updated 7 years ago.

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I bought a cheap laser engraver K3. The software is in chinese, windows only, no commandline support. So i decided to reverse engeneer the protocol and build my own

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    Marcel Ochsendorf • 02/21/2019 at 21:18 • 0 comments

    I finished to implement all needed commands to engrave a bitmap image. See the github link for example and source and the full protocol

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