WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:05.050 - Oh, man. I am excited 'cause right now we get to have the largest unboxing 00:00:05.050 --> 00:00:09.900 on ShortCircuit. Well, not this one right here. We have (groaning) 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:13.980 this whole thing right here to unbox here today. 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:17.800 It's a laser cutter, you already know that from the title. I wanna start with the little one, 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.140 'cause I know that this one's a laser cutter, the other one's a filter, 00:00:21.140 --> 00:00:27.210 but I have legitimately no clue what's in this box right here. So this right here, you would put your work on top of this 00:00:27.210 --> 00:00:31.800 laser shoots down and then curves out your stuff. Everything's kind of in this direction. 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.290 So the amount of area here that the laser is actually hitting is pretty small, 00:00:36.290 --> 00:00:40.820 which is great because if this was just like a flat piece of metal, it would heat up a whole bunch. 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:44.940 Cool, we've also got... We've got a dryer vent here that's probably for ventilation. 00:00:44.940 --> 00:00:49.190 So there's two big problems with our current laser cutter. It's not very repeatable. 00:00:49.190 --> 00:00:53.690 So like if you want to cut a circle and then you go and cut that same circle again, 00:00:53.690 --> 00:00:56.750 it's not gonna line up quite perfectly. It's just not very good 00:00:56.750 --> 00:00:59.830 and also like not repeatable and not reliable. 00:00:59.830 --> 00:01:04.080 This right here is the optional filter. So you don't necessarily have to get this 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:09.100 and our plan for the old laser cutter was to put it into a fume hood that strikes all the fumes, 00:01:09.100 --> 00:01:13.030 shoots them up out of the ceiling throwing some filters and crap. But this is way cheaper. 00:01:13.030 --> 00:01:16.920 It's like a thousand bucks and you can put it literally anywhere. So we don't have to worry about, 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:20.373 where we put it and put the fume hood in is a permanent thing. 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:27.480 We're definitely putting it to new for now. So the fun thing about this is that you don't need to bother venting it 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:32.960 like out a window or anything. You just place it wherever and you are good to go. 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:36.350 So we went for the Pro model because it's the biggest 00:01:36.350 --> 00:01:42.610 and it's the fastest and it's the most powerful. So this right here has 45 Watts of lasering power. 00:01:42.610 --> 00:01:47.670 That's only marginally more than what we have right now. Our current one is 40 Watts. 00:01:47.670 --> 00:01:50.680 And the difference you're going to feel between those two 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.800 is basically nothing, but this should be because like I trust it. 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:58.430 We should be able to push it way faster than our current one. 00:01:58.430 --> 00:02:02.400 It's very well packed. Just come in and look at this. This thing is not going anywhere. 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.640 Another huge advantage of this laser over our last one 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:07.983 is that this is a pre-built kit. 00:02:08.984 --> 00:02:13.230 You basically just unbox it and we should have relatively little setup 00:02:13.230 --> 00:02:18.670 before able to actually get cutting things. Whereas the last one, I think it took a week and a half. 00:02:18.670 --> 00:02:24.247 It's interesting that they have the laser just sitting out like this, 00:02:24.247 --> 00:02:27.700 like in ours, it's in a rear compartment, 00:02:27.700 --> 00:02:31.090 which I guess that is kind of how they allow for the pass through. 00:02:31.090 --> 00:02:35.070 So on this one right here, your cut size is 19 and a half inches 00:02:35.070 --> 00:02:39.350 kind of like this way by infinity, they say. 00:02:39.350 --> 00:02:43.830 So there's a pass through here and on the back, so you can just feed material through it 00:02:43.830 --> 00:02:47.740 and then as long as it's not too wide, you can just, (groaning) 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:51.180 So this is what actually is going to focus the laser, I imagine. 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:57.550 So the laser shoots out this way, providing 40 watts power into the mirror back there, 00:02:57.550 --> 00:03:03.320 it'll bounce and come around and then come out of this little lens right here. 00:03:03.320 --> 00:03:06.490 That goes in there and this just magnets on, is that how it works? 00:03:06.490 --> 00:03:11.030 So I just went to setup.glowforge.com, and the first thing that it's making me do 00:03:11.030 --> 00:03:16.040 is create a Glowforge account. So that kind of brings up one of the big problems with this, 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:19.280 which is that, it's always connected to the internet 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:25.230 and that's how you get files to and from it. This was something that was a really big problem at first 00:03:25.230 --> 00:03:29.078 because if the company goes under a year, basically left with a big old paper paperweight, 00:03:29.078 --> 00:03:32.540 it is a bit better now because they have... 00:03:32.540 --> 00:03:36.310 I think it's called Open Forge. It was like a GitHub thing, all the source codes there. 00:03:36.310 --> 00:03:40.290 You can take it and run it on other software, 00:03:40.290 --> 00:03:45.260 but not super easily. Like, I would really like it if we could have the web app 00:03:45.260 --> 00:03:48.830 for people that sort of know what they're doing, 00:03:48.830 --> 00:03:53.040 but don't entirely know. Then, like if we could just run like LightBurn on it 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:57.770 or something for like me and Colin, where we actually know what this thing is capable of 00:03:57.770 --> 00:04:03.570 and like really get into the nitty gritty with it. Be really careful when you're moving steppers. 00:04:03.570 --> 00:04:08.060 Just because if you move them too fast, they will put current through everything, 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:11.200 which is not great for your electronics. Oh, it just sits down in there. 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:14.830 Kinda arrives in a spot where it feels good. 00:04:14.830 --> 00:04:19.090 It's the clamping on with this thing that you kinda use your hands to pull apart, 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.780 which is just not as good as if they had used the ones where it's like a screw, 00:04:24.780 --> 00:04:27.970 'cause then you can like get it in place and then tighten it much easier. 00:04:27.970 --> 00:04:31.830 If I was them, I definitely would've saved the money by using these ones. 00:04:31.830 --> 00:04:36.840 I think this one's like $4,500, so it's not a cheap option for sure. 00:04:36.840 --> 00:04:40.233 Hey, it's water cooled. Look at that. 00:04:40.233 --> 00:04:44.300 You can see the water pumping right through here. I'm guessing that it has some sort of anti-microbial stuff 00:04:44.300 --> 00:04:48.830 in there, so it doesn't get on nasty pants. So one of the things that you want in a laser cutter 00:04:48.830 --> 00:04:52.760 is for air to be blasted kind of right at your target 00:04:52.760 --> 00:04:56.200 just as like fire suppression. So instead of, 00:04:56.200 --> 00:05:00.840 like the wood that you're cutting out, catching on fire, it just blows it out basically. 00:05:00.840 --> 00:05:04.900 Connect to electrical power. Did it? Yeah. So that's being always connected to the internet 00:05:04.900 --> 00:05:08.920 is both good and bad like for one it's always connected to the internet. 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:13.470 Do you really want that? But on the other hand, like you're able to print from. Damn it! It's not print. 00:05:13.470 --> 00:05:18.150 You're able to cut it, stuff from your phone or like from like a tablet 00:05:18.150 --> 00:05:21.560 or from the other side of the office. So you don't need to be like right there, which is nice, 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:25.660 but at the same time, I don't know, I'm not running a laser cutter without being decided 00:05:25.660 --> 00:05:28.695 'cause things can catch on fire. (mumbling) 00:05:28.695 --> 00:05:33.810 So I need a bit of material to cut here. I think this will do just fine, right around 0.4 of an inch. 00:05:33.810 --> 00:05:37.080 So we've got that in there. So if I close this, 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:42.900 is it going to show me what that's at? Oh, there we go. It did it. Good job. 00:05:42.900 --> 00:05:47.510 It has a camera and now I can just take the thing that I want to cut. 00:05:47.510 --> 00:05:51.340 Toss it on there. Actually, that's really the (murmuring). We're not gonna cut, we're gonna engrave it. 00:05:51.340 --> 00:05:54.693 So we're gonna put it right there. Enter settings. 00:05:55.630 --> 00:05:59.250 Well, let's say the power is 21, sure. 00:05:59.250 --> 00:06:04.370 Speed, 500. Let's see how fast it goes. So I have heard this camera's quite accurate in the middle, 00:06:04.370 --> 00:06:08.010 but as you get over to the sides, it can be like a quarter of an inch out, 00:06:08.010 --> 00:06:12.750 which is not ideal, although apparently you can calibrate it 00:06:12.750 --> 00:06:16.570 and get it down to like within a sixteenth, across the whole bed. 00:06:16.570 --> 00:06:21.280 Either way, it's way better than what we were doing before, which was basically just eyeballing it 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:25.700 and doing like the print area and just kind of hoping that it sort of landed where you wanted it. 00:06:25.700 --> 00:06:30.660 Quite a big pane for like K side panels where you got one shot and then just done. 00:06:30.660 --> 00:06:35.790 Precision power. Auto-focus height in inches, 0.4. 00:06:35.790 --> 00:06:41.360 Number of passes, we'll do one... 21, sounds fine, actually let's drop that a tiny bit. 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:45.050 16, let's say. Speed, 500. Can we go faster? 00:06:45.050 --> 00:06:48.685 What happens if I type in 1000? No, it won't let me do that. 00:06:48.685 --> 00:06:53.590 500.4. Enter. Back. 00:06:53.590 --> 00:06:58.470 Use uncertified material. Good God. All right, 0.4, submit. 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:01.662 So that should be right there, ready. Print. 00:07:01.662 --> 00:07:05.432 So it does sound like there is some air pushing down. This thing is not quiet. 00:07:05.432 --> 00:07:10.303 (cutter roaring) We want to up the laser power a tiny bit for the next go. 00:07:11.460 --> 00:07:14.670 That is not enough. I have to say it's not super duper fast 00:07:14.670 --> 00:07:19.220 compared to something like, I don't know a Trotec, those things are way faster, 00:07:19.220 --> 00:07:22.955 but I don't know, that's way faster than our old ones. That was clearly not fast enough. 00:07:22.955 --> 00:07:26.170 Oh, that was at a power of one. 00:07:26.170 --> 00:07:30.350 Let's say power of 32. 00:07:30.350 --> 00:07:34.280 So this also is a good way to check the repeatability. So we have these tiny little lines in there 00:07:34.280 --> 00:07:39.600 you probably can't even see on camera and if we hit print and it lands right on those lines again, 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:42.650 then we're in pretty good shape. So one thing that is cool about this 00:07:42.650 --> 00:07:46.440 is that it can laser etch on things that aren't completely flat. 00:07:46.440 --> 00:07:51.670 It does seem like it's taking half a while, but on the other one, you'd have to manually go in and set up the focus distance. 00:07:51.670 --> 00:07:56.180 So this is saving us heaps of time. So I don't like how it's kind of pausing there. 00:07:56.180 --> 00:08:00.290 Like you see how it's doing the different segments and then stopping for a second. 00:08:00.290 --> 00:08:04.890 That can mean that like, you can get a bit of fire if it stops. 00:08:04.890 --> 00:08:08.073 I can't tell if it's modulating the laser while it's doing that. 00:08:09.320 --> 00:08:13.690 That was pretty good though and looking, yeah, I can't see the other lines at all. 00:08:13.690 --> 00:08:17.110 So I'm guessing that it hit them pretty much dead on. 00:08:17.110 --> 00:08:21.610 It's been just under an hour and we've done our first little laser engrave here. 00:08:21.610 --> 00:08:26.210 That's awesome. Compared to the last one, I took like a week and a half. 00:08:26.210 --> 00:08:30.780 Get subscribed, click the affiliate link I guess, if you want to buy one of these 00:08:30.780 --> 00:08:34.590 and I don't know, I'll see you later. I'm excited to use this thing.