Laser cut acrylic 6502 available

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chrissmith
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Laser cut acrylic 6502 available

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I have been playing around with cutting old microprocessors on my laser cutter - started with the 4004 and with the help of the 6502 community have now produced a 5 layer version of the 6502 - see attached photo. I have posted a video that give a better view of how the layers are arranged:

https://www.facebook.com/The-Light-Work ... NE&fref=nf

The layers are about 180x200mm.

Please feel free to contact me on through the forum if you are interested in this or have any suggestions or comments.

AUD $80 + postage
Germany - 57 Euro + 15 Euro postage,
US - $62 + $12,
UK - GBP 50 + GBP 12.5

I will post the Autocad file I used to produce this later today so you can cut your own if you have access to a laser cutter - takes about 2 hours to cut so would probably be too expensive to get it cut by a commercial laser cutter who generally charge about $100 per hour.

Now if only I could figure out how to get the picture the right way up...

Thanks

Chris
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GREAT WORK !

I´m curious to see this with a decent colored illumination :)

What is the size of each "layer"?
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Layer are approx. 180*200mm (although scaling to other sizes is relatively easy.

I will probably design some illumination - might be a bit down the track as working through all the cutouts for the lights takes a while.
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I don´t want to push you to do colored illuminations - but I think your small video would be even more impressive.

Why the hell you are living in Sydney ?? It´s damned far away :(

What may it costs sending some holey pieces of plastic ;) half around the world?
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DWG plans for cut are attached here - instructions are in the file.

This relies heavily on the work of the visual6502 team - thanks to those guys.
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Would it be possible to post the video elsewhere? I don't have FB access.
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I can try uploading it here tomorrow - not sure what the forum size limits are. BTW - should not need a Facebook account to view the video - it is on a public page.

Thanks

Chris
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chrissmith wrote:
BTW - should not need a Facebook account to view the video - it is on a public page.
Facebook's streaming quality varies a lot with how heavily their system is in use. Also, a lot of extraneous junk gets loaded when visiting one of their pages. I for one prefer to not visit Facebook to view a video
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Here is the video for those who do not like/cannot get to FB. I had to zip it as the forum does not allow .mp4 files.

Thanks

Chris
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Thanks for the link. Looks great!
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