Laser-etching keycaps
Laser-etching keycaps for a cyberdeck. Posted by Tinfoil_Haberdashery.
KBD.newsPublished May 20, 2021
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The keycap is an opaque PBT one. The UV laser seems to denature the pigment and/or ablate the surface in a way that makes gray marks.
The laser used was a SFDC SFX-UV and it is a 3W engraving laser. (A galvo head UV fiber laser.)
Published on Thu 20th May 2021. Featured in KBD #27 (source).
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