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Open Source Laser Business Opens In New York

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burn-baby-burn dept.

ptorrone writes "If you can't stand the idea of a cookie-cutter laptop and you live in New York City, you have a new option: laser-etching. Phil Torrone, an editor at Make magazine, and Limor Fried, a former fellow at the tech-focused art studio Eyebeam R&D, are working together on Adafruit Laser Services, a new, by-appointment-only business in Manhattan that etches custom artwork onto customers' laptops, iPods, cell phones, and other gadgets." The entire business will be open source. From the Adafruit Laser Services site: "We are publishing 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 you."

10 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Are the lasers frickin'? by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 5, Funny

    And are they attached to the heads of sharks?

    That should be.

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    ... I'm addicted to placebos
    1. Re:Are the lasers frickin'? by neuro.slug · · Score: 3, Funny


      shark = new Shark();
      laser = new Laser();
      laser.setType( TypeFactory.createType( "Fricken" ) );
      shark.mount( laser );


      I think that will do...

    2. Re:Are the lasers frickin'? by sottitron · · Score: 3, Funny

      correction: shark.getHead().mount( laser );

    3. Re:Are the lasers frickin'? by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 2, Funny

      correction:shark.getHead().mount( laser ); This is Slashdot. Any function called getHead() has no place here.
    4. Re:Are the lasers frickin'? by sottitron · · Score: 2, Funny

      You are right. I mean this is a member function! Sheesh, what was I thinking?

  2. How open source is the business? by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bank account numbers and passwords please !

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    Engineering is the art of compromise.
  3. wait for it. by binarybum · · Score: 5, Funny

    mod points to the first person to get a goatse etched powerbook and post it.

    you know it's going to happen.

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    ôó
  4. Oh! Oh! Can I Be First? by ahem · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Do not look at laser with remaining eye."

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    Not A Sig
  5. Re:Open Source? by MyNymWasTaken · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can you not even spend the slight moment to RTFS?


    We are publishing 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 you
  6. Open Source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >> The entire business will be open source.

    Freakin' open source lasers!