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you hear about us section we're here at glo glowforge checking out

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their glowforge it's a laser etcher and

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cutter that is more set up and designed for everyone to be able to use instead

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of just engineers and the features that bring it to that point start with their

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easy web app where you can upload 3d grayscale images in raster or vector

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formats it can auto detect the material that you put inside if you use their

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proof grade materials if not you can just tell it what material is inside it

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can cut things or engrave things like plastics and woods and it has lots of

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really cool automatically based features like the one we used here which was able

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to cut our logo into a puzzle without us

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doing any extra work and the quality of life improvements just kind of keep on

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going it has a camera built into it so that you can actually see what the laser

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engraver sees so when you need to set your object inside you don't have to do

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it with a whole bunch of different measurements and stuff you can just line it up with a camera and you're good to

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go it also is able to auto focus the camera along a curve so if you're doing

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something like engraving the top of a macbook it can see the edges and engrave

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along the edges autofocusing the laser so you don't have any mistakes on the

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side and you don't have to do anything way too fancy they use mirrors to

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redirect the laser this can sometimes be an issue because if the mirror is

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misaligned it can cause various problems we would prefer that they use something

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like fiber optics but they put the mirrors into solid aluminum blocks and

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once a bolt is in place those things aren't moving so it should probably be

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fine the delicate components in the head are also completely sealed off which is

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great because that means less maintenance for you as it won't be able

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to get gunked up but if you do need to access it you can just simply remove it

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with a few magnets there's three stepper motors to move everything around you've

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got one on each side to control the y-axis and then one in the back to

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control the x-axis the laser moves along with the head in terms of the y-axis to

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keep everything aligned one thing that you might notice is that it's not the

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biggest unit ever but that doesn't completely limit you in terms of y-axis

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printing you can actually print things that go pretty far because it has a

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pass-through slot so you can feed things through the laser engraver while it's

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going so it doesn't completely work right now but theoretically what will

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happen is you'll put part of it in it'll laser engrave what it needs to it'll cut

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what it needs to and then when it's ready you can feed more of it in and

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it'll just do the next part and so on and so forth until you're done but said

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pass-through slot does come at an additional expense if you do want the

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basic version that's four thousand dollars it comes with a 40 watt laser

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and that's about it no pass-through slot no built-in venting if you do want to

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vent it out you can send it out through a window or you can just do it outside

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or something like that or you can spend a thousand dollars and buy that built-in

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vent if you want to jump up to the pro version that's eight thousand dollars it

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has that 1 000 vent built in it has the

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pass-through slot and it has a 45 watt laser so that it can do faster cuts well

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for the average consumer definitely including myself this is really

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expensive it is cool to see a more consumer-focused laser etcher cutter now

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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

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can afford it speaking of being able to afford things being able to afford more

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things by using freshbooks and running your business through it you can create invoices in less than 30 seconds you can

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get paid up to four days faster you can see when your clients have seen your

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invoice so if you're running a company that makes really cool purses or draft

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signs with a laser etcher slash cutter you would be able to get your invoices

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created really quickly you'll be able to see if your customers can have actually

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seen your invoices and you can go on from there if you want a free 30-day

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