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freaking lasers whether they're coming out of a stormtrooper's blaster or

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they're mounted on the head of a shark they're undeniably badass and the go-to

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weapon for evil villains everywhere and

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now us in our quest to dominate youtube's

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tech vertical we will be harnessing the power of the laser so that we can

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wow guys really that's what we're using it for

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just like you'll be using Corsair's new hs50 if you need a wired three and a

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half millimeter headset it features metal structural components and 50

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millimeter neodymium drivers check it out at the link below

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you know you know what i i am i'm gonna wear them

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for over a year now alex has been trying to figure out how to make a laser cutter

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that's both powerful and cheap

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and that's where the good people at smart diy come in they had the smart

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idea to make a diy laser cutter kit

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giving you the capabilities of a prefab at a lower price by having you assemble

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it yourself so it's like ikea i guess

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and that's what we'll be doing today but first

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why do we want a laser cutter and what exactly is a laser cutter okay no i'm

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not gonna wear them the main things that people use them for

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are to accurately cut plastic or wood in

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two dimensions or to engrave basically

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any material and while we already have a 3d printer

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that can fabricate plastic parts in three dimensions

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because these parts get printed in layers they can only be their strongest

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in one direction at this time

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easily pulling apart in the other further contributing to their weakness

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is the time and cost associated with printing solid objects using fused

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deposition modeling so it's much cheaper and faster to make hollow stuff

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with a laser cutter though you can cut pieces of acrylic without giving up any

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of the strength of the original material this means you can build load-bearing

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things like drone components or computer cases using them

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so enough foreplay then let's meet the smart diy fabool c02 a 40 watt laser

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cutter kit hailing from japan we were initially worried this video

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wouldn't be that interesting then we opened up the packaging and holy

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frank look at that laser oh and also computer water cooling parts

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damn okay this should be fun the frame

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is made of aluminum extrusion that gets held in place using right angle brackets

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the instructions aren't perfect and you do have to pay really close attention to

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the text and pictures but if you follow them very carefully there's no reason to

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screw anything up now it's time for power there's actually one power supply

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already in here so that gives us one ac

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to dc power supply for the electronics then a switching power supply for the

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laser the next piece is the rail with the stepper motors once the tension is

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adjusted these tracks should allow our cutter to robot its way around the bed

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and then these big cable holder tank track chummies that i'm sure have a real

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name will keep it from snapping its wires cables go in the motor side then

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out on the bottom and over to the controller

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this can communicate to the outside once we have the i o panel attached which has

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usb ac power and also this weird fitting

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thing that i'm not totally sure what it does yet

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now it's time for water cooling the initial plan was to RGB it up and use

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our own lit af fans but unfortunately the fan controller uses proprietary

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wiring and we would need to do a fair bit of careful soldering to get power to

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our RGB controller so we decided to leave it stock although

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a hardline tubing upgrade is definitely still on the table down the line

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when it came time to mount the laser we realized that we didn't have a large

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enough allen key for these bolts so thank goodness for vice grips

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then we carefully put the laser on making sure not to tighten it down too

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hard or we could risk breaking it with the laser in wiring it up was pretty

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much a matter of following the diagram until everything but the pump is

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connected we'll plug that in once the reservoir is filled the only part of

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this build that didn't feel all that premium was the dampers for the top

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cover these long bolts are kind of jank

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but they do the trick and then with the acrylic installed on top it looks pretty

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good anyway okay but hold on a minute here if the

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laser is locked in place in the back

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how does it cut things ah

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well it actually gets bounced around to the desired location using front surface

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mirrors the first one goes back here on this

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piece of aluminum extrusion and then this is where this project

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started taking a bit longer than expected it would appear that a big part of the

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reason that laser cutters cost so much

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is because of how freaking long it takes to get them properly calibrated

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so the process is basically like this after putting on the protective not to

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mention very cool glasses that you need

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whenever the laser back is open you take the mirror and put a piece of masking

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tape over it then briefly radiate the laser which creates a burn mark on the

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tape to show where it's hitting you adjust until it hits in the center

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and then you're good to go no actually it's not quite that simple

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either since the laser beam needs to hit the center of all of the mirrors in all of

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their possible locations around the work area

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it actually was about a day of fine tuning before it was finally ready to go

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the last steps then were filling the loop putting on the final panels

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installing the software the process for which is conveniently entirely in

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japanese and booting it up

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and it works and it's in english actually

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so for our first test we'll engrave a dead meme on a dead pc side panel with

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okay so some small issues at first but we'll

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just turn vsync on here and uh hey the second half of the etching went

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without a hitch so guys as of filming this right now we

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just got this bad boy running and we definitely want to do a follow-up video

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so let us know what you want to see us do

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and uh we'll add it to the list of super cool projects that we have planned for

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