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you hear about us section we're here at glo glowforge checking out
their glowforge it's a laser etcher and
cutter that is more set up and designed for everyone to be able to use instead
of just engineers and the features that bring it to that point start with their
easy web app where you can upload 3d grayscale images in raster or vector
formats it can auto detect the material that you put inside if you use their
proof grade materials if not you can just tell it what material is inside it
can cut things or engrave things like plastics and woods and it has lots of
really cool automatically based features like the one we used here which was able
to cut our logo into a puzzle without us
doing any extra work and the quality of life improvements just kind of keep on
going it has a camera built into it so that you can actually see what the laser
engraver sees so when you need to set your object inside you don't have to do
it with a whole bunch of different measurements and stuff you can just line it up with a camera and you're good to
go it also is able to auto focus the camera along a curve so if you're doing
something like engraving the top of a macbook it can see the edges and engrave
along the edges autofocusing the laser so you don't have any mistakes on the
side and you don't have to do anything way too fancy they use mirrors to
redirect the laser this can sometimes be an issue because if the mirror is
misaligned it can cause various problems we would prefer that they use something
like fiber optics but they put the mirrors into solid aluminum blocks and
once a bolt is in place those things aren't moving so it should probably be
fine the delicate components in the head are also completely sealed off which is
great because that means less maintenance for you as it won't be able
to get gunked up but if you do need to access it you can just simply remove it
with a few magnets there's three stepper motors to move everything around you've
got one on each side to control the y-axis and then one in the back to
control the x-axis the laser moves along with the head in terms of the y-axis to
keep everything aligned one thing that you might notice is that it's not the
biggest unit ever but that doesn't completely limit you in terms of y-axis
printing you can actually print things that go pretty far because it has a
pass-through slot so you can feed things through the laser engraver while it's
going so it doesn't completely work right now but theoretically what will
happen is you'll put part of it in it'll laser engrave what it needs to it'll cut
what it needs to and then when it's ready you can feed more of it in and
it'll just do the next part and so on and so forth until you're done but said
pass-through slot does come at an additional expense if you do want the
basic version that's four thousand dollars it comes with a 40 watt laser
and that's about it no pass-through slot no built-in venting if you do want to
vent it out you can send it out through a window or you can just do it outside
or something like that or you can spend a thousand dollars and buy that built-in
vent if you want to jump up to the pro version that's eight thousand dollars it
has that 1 000 vent built in it has the
pass-through slot and it has a 45 watt laser so that it can do faster cuts well
for the average consumer definitely including myself this is really
expensive it is cool to see a more consumer-focused laser etcher cutter now
you don't just have to be an engineer or have one at your school or something like that you can do this at home if you
can afford it speaking of being able to afford things being able to afford more
things by using freshbooks and running your business through it you can create invoices in less than 30 seconds you can
get paid up to four days faster you can see when your clients have seen your
invoice so if you're running a company that makes really cool purses or draft
signs with a laser etcher slash cutter you would be able to get your invoices
created really quickly you'll be able to see if your customers can have actually
seen your invoices and you can go on from there if you want a free 30-day
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