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03/09/2026

A laser cutter built by the people who use it 🔥

The Fabulaser Mini was made to be assembled by its users — ideally with students, in a workshop. By the end you don't just have a laser cutter, you understand exactly how it works, and you can fix it, improve it, or design your own.

600×400mm cutting area, 40W CO2, cuts up to 10mm acrylic. It's been built and rebuilt by people in workshops on several continents, each machine assembled by whoever ended up using it — which was always the point.

All files are published under CERN-OHL-W v2, on our GitHub ⚙️

02/09/2026

Open source hardware has a definition — and most "open" machines don't meet it ⚙️

Replicate it, modify it, sell it yourself.

Miss one and it's open-washing.

Piccola CNC will be fully documented at delivery, fulfilling DIN SPEC 3105.

100% open. Not 90%.

piccolacnc.com ✨

31/08/2026

We scanned a rubber duck 🦆⚙️

The same laser that finds your edges and centres also captures geometry. Scan a part on the machine, export as STL or OBJ, and mill a copy — without ever moving the workpiece.

Copy a part, reverse-engineer one, or check what you just cut. Same laser, no extra hardware.

https://www.piccolacnc.com/ ✨

30/08/2026

Coffee break, but make it 3-axis ☕

We attached a spoon to the spindle and let Piccola do the stirring. Yongwoo supervised, then drank the evidence.

(The machine survived. The coffee was excellent.)

Link in bio for what Piccola is actually for ✨

28/08/2026

Going big. Really big.

BigFDM is an open source large-scale 3D printer with an 800 x 800 x 900mm printing volume — big enough for furniture, prosthetics, art installations, full-scale moulds and industrial prototypes.

It was developed and built at Fab Lab UAE, with the help of Hashim Al Sakkaf, using standard Fab Lab equipment and fabbable satshakit-based electronics and replicated in Fab Lab ENIT. The whole BOM comes in around €2600 (in 2019) — a fraction of what comparable machines cost.

All of it — CAD, electronics, firmware config, BOM, building manual — published under the CERN-OHL-W license.

Take a look 👉 https://github.com/fab-machines/BigFDM

26/08/2026

Open the window, the spindle stops ⚙️

Not just in software — in hardware too, with several independent layers and a system that checks itself. Swipe for how it works.

CE certification in progress, plus Performance Level c for schools and institutions.

https://www.piccolacnc.com/ ✨

24/08/2026

Still thinking about Maker Faire Hannover ⚙️

Two days of Piccola CNC cutting live, the first public look at our OISK metal 3D printer results, and a lot of very good questions.

Our favourite moment: kids who watched the spindle for several minutes straight 🖤

Good company in the hall too 🙌

Thanks to everyone who came by Booth 90 — more about Piccola CNC: https://www.piccolacnc.com/ ✨

12/08/2026

Shirts printed. Materials packed. Three days to go ⚙️

We're at Maker Faire Hannover this Friday & Saturday — Booth 90, Eilenriedehalle.

Piccola CNC will be cutting live all weekend (wood, MDF, POM, acrylic, aluminium — we brought plenty), plus the first results of the OISK, our open source metal 3D printer (a dtec.bw project with Helmut Schmidt University, funded by NextGenerationEU).

Come say hi — we'll be the ones in the black shirts 🖤

More about Piccola: https://www.piccolacnc.com/ ✨

10/08/2026

Manually probing an edge: step, smaller step, smaller step… don't overshoot 😮‍💨 We automated it.

Edge Finding: Piccola's laser distance sensor sets the XY zero of your piece automatically — no tedious stepping, and more precise than by hand. And since it's a laser, not a physical touch probe, nothing touches your material: no probe to crash or break.

Center Finding does the same for the middle: a clean reference for double-sided milling. Flip, and both sides match.

More on https://www.piccolacnc.com/ ✨

🎟️ LAST HOURS: Maker Faire Hannover ticket raffle ends tonight 23:00 — Instagram pinned post!

07/08/2026

The first open source laser cutter with two laser sources. 🔥

LaserDuo was the machine that started the big ones. A 130W CO2 laser and a 75W YAG laser in a single machine — so it could cut everything from wood and acrylic to engraving metals. A 1500x1000mm cutting area, a 500mm Z axis, and a full aluminium body, all designed to be built with standard Fab Lab equipment in FabLab Kamp-Lintfort at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences with the invaluable support of Prof. Karsten Nebe and Ahmed Belal.

The electronics? Fabbable satshakit boards — the same family Daniele had designed years earlier.

Only two LaserDuo were ever built and only one survives. Today you can see it at the Technikmuseum in Berlin (more information here: https://technikmuseum.berlin/en/exhibitions/permanent-exhibition/translate-to-english-techlab/).

Everything is documented and published under the CERN-OHL-W license.

Take a look 👉 https://github.com/fab-machines/LaserDuo

🎟️ Win 2 tickets to Maker Faire Hannover — raffle here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbs0h1jACtI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
ends 11 Aug!

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