I got email from NORTD that the alpha lasersaur kits are shipping and was wondering if anyone else on cnczone was building one. They thank cnczone in their build credits, so Addie and Stefan must be hanging out around here somewhere...
lasersaur is a project to build a true open source laser cutter from scratch. About the only thing that's proprietary are the motors and some of the chips, the controller boards, software, and everything else is open source; similar to the RepRap and MakerBot 3d printer projects.
More info at: Lasersaur