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This Compact 40W Diode Enclosed Laser Cutter Is Every Designer + Hobbyist’s Dream

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With a fully-enclosed design that makes it incredibly user-friendly and safe for even homes, the xTool S1 is the most powerful laser cutter consumers can buy. It sports a slim design that doesn’t occupy the kind of vertical space required by other consumer-grade devices like 3D printers, and has a modular design that lets you swap out the laser attachments depending on the material you’re working with. The enclosed design eliminates the need to wear goggles while the cutter’s in action, and multiple flame-detectors keep the entire operation safe at all times. Despite all that, the xTool S1 sports a starting price of just $1,599 for the S1 with a 20W laser, going up to $1,999 if you want to pack ultimate power with a 40W laser diode.

Designer: xTool

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Occupying the same footprint as a flatbed scanner, the S1 from xTool is an industry-grade laser cutter designed specifically for hobbyists, prototypers, designers, engineers, small entrepreneurs, and other creatively inclined folk. It packs a powerful laser diode into an enclosed flatbed-style design that isn’t just compact, it’s also much safer than most consumer-grade open-diode laser cutters that either require you to splurge another couple of hundreds on a safety enclosure, or require you to have goggles on at all times while operating the machinery. The S1 is a suitable alternative, and comes with its own enclosed design that doesn’t break the bank.

The 40W laser is powerful enough to slice through wood, leather, stainless steel to plastic, precious metals, acrylic, and almost all other common materials with absolute ease. A modular design allows you to swap between laser diodes of different powers so you can engrave too, while also letting you attach accessories like risers for working on taller/thicker elements, or a rotary module for engraving on cylindrical surfaces.

The modular design extends to even the laser itself, with the ability to switch between the 40W laser, a 20W laser, or a 1064nm laser. The entire process is easy for even first-timers to do, giving your S1 the range to work with a whole host of materials. Other modules include the riser, which elevates your S1 so you can engrave on products as thick as 125mm (4.9 inches), the RA2 Pro rotary module for engraving on cylindrical surfaces (covering 90% of the cylinder), or even the Automatic Conveyor Feed that lets you feed in longer pieces of material as the S1 does running cuts on them. You can even add a honeycomb lattice to catch your parts as they fall, filtering dust off in the process, or install a smoke purifier module that purifies 99.97% of the exhaust fumes generated while the laser is at work.

Experts as well as novices will appreciate how intuitive using the S1 is. Right off the bat, it accepts all leading file types including SVG/DXF/JPG/JPEG/PNG/BMP/TIF, while supporting working with a variety of material categories from paper all the way up to stainless steel.

While most laser cutters use cameras for positioning, the S1 offers a new twin-point positioning system that’s much more accurate than the traditional camera method. This sidesteps the camera’s own shortcomings like its ability to distort or succumb to small amounts of parallax. The twin-point positioning system offers higher accuracy thanks to xTool’s advanced algorithms, allowing you to accurately visualize previews within the software for the best possible results.

The S1 also features an advanced Intelligent Focus System, enabling multi-point high-precision ranging and automated 3D object modeling. The motorized Z-axis dynamically adjusts focus in real time during processing, ensuring meticulous precision. Once you’ve loaded and calibrated your job, the S1 gets to work at 600mm/s, offering a respectably speedy yet incredibly stable performance thanks to the robust guide rail system that guides the laser with ease.

40 watts of power is no joke, especially in the laser world, which is why the folks at xTool take safety as seriously as they do. Rated Class-1, the laser is certified safe to be used around humans given how many precautions the S1 takes with its design. A large, high-transparency cover offers excellent dual-wavelength filtering capabilities (diode laser and 1064nm Infrared laser), freeing you from cumbersome protective glasses while giving you a clear view of the job while it’s being processed.

The entire enclosure is fire-resistant, but the chances of a fire are drastically minimized thanks to omni-directional flame detectors that constantly monitor the S1 while it’s in action. A powerful smoke exhaust rapidly discharges harmful gases produced during laser processing, ensuring your safety and well-being, with the option of adding a purifier module that purifies 99.97% of the air making its way out of the S1. The device additionally has auto-shutdown protocols when you lift the lid in the middle of a job or when the S1 detects a tilt or impact, and at any other time, a conveniently placed emergency stop button lets you instantly pause a job.

The xTool S1 measures 765mm x 561mm (30 inches x 22 inches) in length and diameter, while being 183mm or 7.2 inches in height (going to 268mm or 10.5 inches with the riser module attached) and weighing 20 kilograms (44lbs). The S1 40W has a 498mm x 319mm (19.6 inches x 12.5 inches) work area, extendable indefinitely via the Automatic Conveyor Feed module. The device connects via both USB as well as WiFi, working with popular software Lightburn or even xTool’s proprietary XCS software that’s available for Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, and iPadOS devices. The xTool S1 starts at $1,599 for the 20W model, while the 40W variant costs $1,999, undercutting most powerful laser cutters that can run up even 5 figures in cost. Addon modules for the cutter are available separately.

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Foldable laser cutter’s unique design gives it an infinite working area, making it perfect for industrial and hobby use

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I can’t possibly overstate the importance of ‘compactness’ when it comes to machines/tools for designing and fabrication. Most consumer-grade 3D printers, laser-cutters, and CNC machines focus on usability and the price tag to make their machines more accessible to hobbyists, but they don’t always pay as much attention to making their machines as compact as possible. Meet Optic, an incredibly clever laser cutter/engraver that uses a unique folding design to collapse down to the size of a rolled-up yoga mat. Designed to make professional-grade laser cutting and etching truly accessible to anyone and everyone, Optic sports a brilliant folding design with its own integrated fume-filtration system, and the ability to work over an infinite surface area, so you could potentially make artwork as small as a penny or as large as a penthouse.

Designer: Rendyr

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One of Optic’s most noteworthy innovations is its folding design. Reminiscent of a filmmaker’s marker slate (you know, the thing they use when the director shouts “Action”), Optic occupies the space of a long linear cuboid when folded, but opens into an L-shaped apparatus when you need to use it. The L design ends up defining the X and Y axes of the laser cutting module, and Optic also comes with its own fold-out laser-proof work-mat to keep your items on while you etch/engrave/cut them. The mat, cleverly enough, comes with a grid engraved on it, making measuring, spacing, and aligning your jobs easy, and if you ever need to work on an item that’s larger than the mat itself, the mat plugs right out, allowing you to place the L-shaped laser module on any external surface.

The Optic lets you create with a wide variety of materials including paper, wood, and fabric products as well as specific metals, plastics, and foams.

Optic sports a slick, machined aluminum outer body with its own built-in protective tinted transparent cover. Underneath the hood lies the device’s powerful dual-diode laser module capable of outputting a single 15W beam, strong enough to work on a wide variety of materials, including paper, wood, cork, glass, marble, stone, concrete, and fabric products as well as specific metals, plastics, and foams. Given that working with lasers can result in fumes caused by burning materials, Optic comes with its own exhaust and filtration system – a feature that’s one-of-a-kind for consumer-grade laser cutters/engravers. The L-shaped design proves to be useful yet again, as one of the linear arms of the device helps channel air-flow from the laser diode right out to the other end, where air passes through a replaceable HEPA filter, keeping your workspace clean and smoke-free.

The Optic is detachable so you can place it directly on taller/larger objects. It can also be used for direct cutting and engraving on objects larger that have a 12” x 18” base work area and ¼” clearance for material thickness.

The laser cutter comes with replaceable multi-stage filter cartridges so you can use it wherever and whenever you need to without worrying about permanent exhaust ducts.

Fold it up when you’re done.

Designed with a truly limitless approach, Optic sports a portable design, with a USB-C input that lets you run the device off your Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop or desktop. The laser cutter supports a host of software and formats for input, and ships along with ‘LightBurn’, a well-known desktop-based laser cutter software that lets you even etch larger-than-life artworks. Lightburn helps split your artwork into smaller ’tiles’, effectively allowing you to etch your art piece by piece seamlessly without any problems. For objects with a thickness beyond the standard clearance, Optic’s optional Work Envelope Expansion Kit lets you process items up to a few inches in thickness.

The Optic combines CNC (computer numerical control) positioning with a high-power laser in order to precisely cut out your designs or engrave your artwork to help you go from idea to prototype to product with endless possibilities.

Made for professional as well as personal/hobby use, Optic’s unique design packs a punch without the massive space requirements of a larger industrial machine. When folded, the entire machine measures only 2 feet long, 4-inches wide, and 6-inches tall, allowing you to easily pack it away when you’re not using it. Each Optic ships along with a filter cartridge, a washable/reusable prefilter, a power supply cable (USB-C 100W), laser safety glasses, a cleaning and maintenance kit, the bundled LightBurn software, and a one-year warranty on the product. If you’re looking to upgrade your fabrication arsenal (or just set up your own prototype/hobby lab in your room), you can snag an Optic Portable Laser Cutter for an early-bird discounted price of $1,995 using the link below.

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Thee-Eyed Goat Ouija Board Is Demon-Summoning Ready

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Laser carved with an original design created by Denver artist Matt Verges, this three-eyed goat Ouija board is just the thing you need to finally make contact with the demon world. Presumably, in an attempt to have them do your bidding, only to be tricked and your soul enslaved for all eternity. Trust me; I have regrets.

Available from Matt’s Etsy store for $230, the 12″ x 18″ x 0.5″ board is made from ash wood and includes an equally detailed planchette (pointer), so you can actually understand what the demons are trying to tell you. Rest assured, I happen to know they’re quite familiar with the English language. I… have regrets. Did I say that already?

I remember growing up, my best friend had a Ouija board, and we’d play with it late at night during sleepovers. Now, looking back, I have to laugh to not cry at how foolish we were, wielding such incredibly dark power so willy-nilly from the comfort of our blanket fort. Honestly, I feel it’s terribly irresponsible of Hasbro to even sell Ouija boards to anyone who isn’t at least 400 years and/or an undead warlock looking to finally escape the mortal realm.

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This portable, consumer-friendly laser-engraver lets you rapidly customize anything… even food!

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I remember a time not too long ago when laser-engraving machines were quite literally machines. They were massive setups, required serious technical know-how, and were more industrial than consumer-grade. All that’s changed now. Just the way the printing press went from a massive machine to the inkjet printer sitting beside your computer, laser engraving’s become smaller, more accessible, and affordable… and the LaserPecker 2 builds on that. Designed as a technical upgrade to the LaserPecker Pro from last year, the LaserPecker 2 is a powerful, portable laser-engraver that can etch onto a myriad of materials, cover a variety of surfaces, and even cut through wood, cork, and paper sheets. Designed to democratize laser-engraving, The LaserPecker 2 makes engraving quick and easy, with a 5W semiconductor laser that’s blazingly fast, a real-time previewer that lets you accurately place your artwork on products, and a variety of attachments that allow you to use the LaserPecker 2 on curved and even long surfaces!

The LaserPecker 2 comes in a deceptively portable design that definitely feels like it’s miles ahead of the massive industrial laser-engraving machines still being used today. Practically the size of an electric iron, the LaserPecker 2 sports a foldable design, an all-metal body, and self-leveling + auto-calibrating features that makes it ridiculously easy to use. The engraver works with an app that allows you to port images and vectors in (you can use a variety of file formats or even sketch your own), with the ability to preview your artwork on your product in realtime. You can shift or reposition your artwork on the product right inside the app by dragging and dropping files, and when you’re satisfied, just hit the Start button and the LaserPecker 2 does the rest, automatically calibrating and focusing the laser, before swiftly etching out your art in a matter of milliseconds. The 5W semiconductor laser gives the machine its speed and accuracy, allowing you to practically set up a factory line of products that are customized with your images, monograms, and logos, and LaserPecker 2’s unique attachments give you command of the third axis, enabling you to engrave on curved surface, or even on longer surfaces that require the engraver to physically roll up and down surfaces. If you want to truly unleash the LaserPecker 2’s portability, a 20,000 mAh dedicated power-bank gives the engraver up to 200 minutes of run time, allowing you to use it even during power-outages, or unplug it and carry it offsite.

Things get really interesting when you start looking at the ecosystem of attachments the LaserPecker 2 has to offer. While the LaserPecker Pro from 2019 boasted of a portable design that could work on all sorts of surfaces and sizes, the 2020 edition of the product comes with attachments that give you professional-level control over your jobs. A snap-on mobile hood allows you to use the laser-engraver like you would a flashlight, giving you the ability to carry the engraver by its built-in handle and engrave items that are too big to be carried into your home. Similarly, a cleverly designed auxiliary booster puts two rolling cylinders on the engraver’s base, allowing it to roll up and down surfaces, etching artworks up to 2 meters long. Flip the booster attachment over and the cylinder rollers now face upwards, allowing you to place rotatable products like bottles, rolls, and stationery on it. The rollers rotate the product as the etcher does its magic, creating seamless artworks on curved surfaces!

Just like its predecessor, the LaserPecker 2 works with a wide variety of materials, ranging from the conventional paper, wood, and cork, to the advanced metal, glass, and acrylic, to even the unconventionally bizarre food, fruits (yes, you could customize your burger buns and macaroons), or even bones… you know, for people who work with unconventional memorabilia. Apart from engraving, the device works as a precise laser-cutter too, allowing you to cut out paper, wood, and even precision-cut cloth for your designs. The LaserPecker 2 works across platforms, running on iOS and Android devices, and even hooks to laptops, offering compatibility with Windows and MacOS systems. It accepts traditional formats like JPG and PNG, as well as SVG, DWG, AI, and even runs G-Code for more advanced users. With a 30% off price-tag of 599, the LaserPecker 2 is up for grabs and makes a pretty compelling case for creators of all kinds, whether you want to customize products with your own branding, or with artwork, or even if you want to build your own products from scratch using the laser-cutting feature. Heck, you could even laser-cut your own packaging from paper for a completely bespoke experience!

Designer: LaserPecker

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LaserPecker 2 – Super Fast Handheld Laser Engraver & Cutter

The LaserPecker 2 is a compact, plug-and-play laser engraver and cutter that sets up in seconds and works with your smartphone to transfer images and begin engraving with just a few clicks.

Nearly all the laser engravers on the market are either too bulky to take on-the-go or too pricey to be a good value.

LaserPecker 2 makes laser engraving affordable and simple for beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike.

High-Speed Engraving

LaserPecker 2 rockets up the engraving speed to 600mm/s. Compared to the LaserPecker Pro first generation, it’s a giant leap forward. Three engraving resolution options of 1k, 1.3k, and 2k provide the perfect details level at your fingertips. 10 times higher speed, 10 times more possibilities!

Fast Speed Preview

Featuring a super-fast preview speed of 3750mm/s. The industrial-grade fully digital Galvano scanning system fully supports square and graphic preview, making the positioning much easier, more accurate and intuitive. What you see is what you get!

Powerful Auxiliary Booster

360° Cylindrical Rotating Engraving –  Conventional engravers offer very limited engraving options, and you’re limited to only one way to engrave – flat on the table. What if you really need a portable, handheld engraving solution that handles anything? LaserPecker 2 is capable of 360° rotating engravings on cylindrical objects, as well as curved or uneven surfaces.

Max 100*2000mm Engraving Area –  The maximum engraving size is supersized up to 100*2000mm giving you the option to engrave anything up to two meters in size effortlessly.

Endless Engraving Materials

LaserPecker 2 can engrave almost on everything that springs to your mind. Metal, dark glass, colored ceramics, wood, bamboo, leather, paper, fruit, food, plastic, acrylic, stone, cement, bone, all layers of materials, anything!

Mobile Laser Engraving

Take LaserPecker 2 with you and engrave flexibly with the exclusive power bank at any time, anywhere. With up to 200+ minutes worktime, LaserPecker 2 is the strongest support for your endless creativity.

Powerful Laser Cutting

Thanks to the 5W semiconductor laser with the upgraded version of compressed spot technology, you can have a higher standard and more powerful laser cutting with LaserPecker 2. Wood, paper, acrylic, leather goods with a thickness under 5mm.

Super Portable

The exclusive LaserPecker 2 power bank fits in your pocket. Take it anywhere and have fun.

Cross-Platform & Multi-Format

LaserPecker 2 supports cross-platform compatibility for both mobile and desktop use. Versatile multi-format support ensures that your engraving and cutting experience is smooth and successful.

Full Metal Design

LaserPecker 2 is minimalist in nature. Strict attention to details in every process makes it perfect aesthetically and functionally. Full metal design with premium matte finish radiates its unparalleled strength and beauty.

Peak Bluetooth Speed

5M/min – A solid 30 times transmission speed faster than the 1st generation. Faster, more secure with stronger anti-interference capability. It’s also more energy smart to add efficiency to your engraving experience.

High-level Safety Protection

LaserPecker 2 automatically stops for vibration, tilting and over temperature. A blue light filter cover protects your eyes from any discomfort or dryness. The preset password and emergency stop button keep everything under control.

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Amazing Laser Cutter Projects And Ideas To Inspire You

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Laser cutting is a very exciting and useful technology. While it was once reserved for large companies in their factories or manufacturing plants, this is no longer the case. There are many that are suitable for at-home use, and many people have fallen in love with all they can do with a laser cutter. Whether you want to design an product or simply build a cool item for your home, laser cutting is a great and unique technology. However, while some are full of ideas of what to create, others need a little inspiration. This blog post is going to…

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This flatbed laser engraver lets you creatively customize any of your products in mere seconds

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Building on the success of the original portable laser-engraver Cubiio (which secured over $1.3 million in funding on Kickstarter in the fall of 2017), the Cubiio 2 is a slim, flatbed laser-engraver/cutter with a resolution of 500 DPI, autofocus, and the ability to preview your print/patterns before you execute them.

The Cubiio 2 comes with a compact design that’s almost reminiscent of a flatbed scanner. With a tinted glass hood covering the engraving area, the Cubiio 2 is incredibly easy to use. Just lift the lid, place the object you want to engrave on, or cut into and take a picture using the Cubiio app. The app then lets you accurately position your artwork on the product of your choice, following which all you need to do is approve of the placement and close the lid, allowing the Cubiio 2 to get to work. The Cubiio 2’s laser automatically focuses on its subject, and can handle materials like aluminum, stainless steel, wood, glass, acrylic, paper, cork, leather, and even cement.

The Cubiio 2 works as an efficient laser-cutter and engraver that’s safe for even kids to use – all the action happens behind the tinted glass lid. You can customize existing products by adding logos, messages, or even artwork to it in the form of engravings, or make your own line of items from scratch using the laser-cutting tool, creating a variety of laser-cut designs and products.

With its slim, scanner-ish design, easy to use UX, and versatile build, the Cubiio 2 promises to make laser-engraving/cutting as ‘easy’ as laserjet printing. The Cubiio 2 comes in two sizes, a regular that handles jobs of 11.8″ x 8.6″, and a Plus size that handles larger jobs of 16.5″ x 11.8″. The device comes along with Cubiio 2’s app, and works entirely over WiFi, supporting a wide variety of image and vector formats. You can even choose the laser cartridge you want fitted into your Cubiio 2 – a 3.5W laser offers basic functionality, while a higher intensity 5W laser allows you to work with more unusual materials including stainless steel, aluminum, ceramics, and even cement/concrete. Whether it’s building products like laser-cut cards, toys, or prototypes or customizing items with your own designs (like monogramming pens, etching photos into wood or acrylic, or adding your logo to leather products, the Cubiio 2 aims at making the process of cutting and engraving incredibly precise – with its 500dpi resolution, incredibly safe – with its enclosed design, password lock feature, and auto-shutdown feature, and incredibly accessible, thanks to its sleek, compact design!

Designer: Cubiio

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Cubiio 2 – Laser Cutter & Metal Engraver with Autofocus

In 2017, their first project, the Cubiio 1 was the most funded fabrication tool ever on Kickstarter. Now they are back with the 2nd generation – more powerful, much faster, yet still sporting a refined look with a compact footprint.

At 2.5″ slim, with a diagonal of 25″ and a weight of 13 lbs, the Cubiio 2 features a workspace bigger than a standard Letter or A4 size paper, offering you plenty of room to flex your creative muscle.

Metal Engraving

Eiffel Tower on iPad. Anodized Aluminum / 10 min

Thanks to the latest advances in semiconductor laser technology, their laser cartridge works on stainless steel directly, without pre-coating spray. Cubiio 2 can engrave on titanium, dark glass, shale, brick, concrete, most varieties of colored anodized aluminum, and other materials. It even works on curved surfaces, like wine bottles.

What Can Be Cut?

Cubiio 2 can cut through paper, wood, leather, fabric, felt, cardboard, non-transparent acrylic, and many other materials. If the work material is too thick for a single pass to cut through, Cubiio 2 will continue to focus downward into the material for subsequent passes. The maximum cutting thickness is 5 mm.

Excellent Resolution

Cubiio 2 outputs at a resolution of 500 DPI or 0.05 mm. That’s even thinner than your hair! In contrast to PWM control, our “realtime analog control” of laser power produces a wide range of gray tones. With Cubiio 2, your laser portrait is not only black and white.

Autofocus

Thanks to LiDAR, some high-end smartphones are now equipped with 3D cameras. LiDAR calculates distances by emitting infrared light to a target and measuring the time it takes for the reflection to bounce back. Cubiio 2 employs LiDAR technology to focus the laser beam on the target’s surface automatically and precisely.

Preview

Put an object in the machine and take a top view picture with the Cubiio App. Don’t worry about getting it perfect because the App will compensate for the angle deviation. Scale, rotate, position your art work, and go. What you see is what you get!

Easy to Use

Cubiio 2 is easy to use thanks to features like autofocus, preview, Wi-Fi remote control, OTA firmware update, cross-format compatibility, alignment-free optics, and embedded fume filter. The App is user-friendly and intuitive. It is developed by programmers led by Mr. Michael Pan, an Apple Certified Trainer.

Cubiio Club

Hundreds of amazing projects are ready to use in the cloud database (Cubiio Club). Browse, download one, and laser it immediately. Even a beginner can achieve amazing results. Cubiio Team has hired professional designers to enrich the database regularly. Users are also welcome to upload and share their projects with the community.

Community Sharing

More than 5k Cubiio owners have joined the “Quser group”, where they share useful tips and thousands of beautiful pictures. If you have questions, seasoned enthusiasts from all over the world would love to help you.

Safety

Cubiio 2 is a Class 1 laser product – naked-eye safe under all conditions of normal use. The complete enclosure prevents the laser from leaking. Lifting the lid stops the laser immediately. Cubiio 2 is equipped with an attenuator, digital lock, thermometer, accelerometer, beeper, emission indicator, and emergency stop switch.

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This laser-engraving machine is as small as your printer and is just as easy to use too!

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It’s pretty difficult to comprehend that this small gadget possesses the power to cut and engrave practically any material from leather to wood, glass, acrylic, metal, fabric, stone, and even cement… but once you realize how versatile the beamo by FLUX is, the possibilities are endless. The beamo is a small but powerful laser cutting tool with industrial-grade capabilities and domestic-grade interface and price tag. Designed to make laser cutting as easy as 3D printing has become, beamo’s consumer-friendly design and UI brings laser cutting to the masses, letting you do everything from customizing products you own and adding artwork to things you design to even creating intricate laser-cut packaging for them.

Practically the size of your inkjet printer, beamo comes with everything you need to get started right away. The device packs a powerful 30W CO2 laser inside its fully-enclosed body. beamo’s on-board screen interface makes it easy to select what job you want to execute, while its compatibility with existing softwares like Photoshop and Illustrator, and its own intuitive softwares, the Beam Studio and BeamCam, let you easily turn your artworks into vector guidelines for laser cutting or etching.

beamo delivers on a pretty big promise by making laser cutting “easy”. It packs a live-preview feature that lets you preview your print and alignment before executing the job. The entire beamo, as small as it is, is incredibly safe, with a door-sensor that stops the laser when you open the enclosure, and a water-cooled system that keeps the printer running for long without overheating. By making laser-cutting as easy as laserjet printing, beamo helps democratize yet another industrial process that creatives heavily rely on. Whether it’s building 2D or even 3D structures, or customizing products with bespoke artworks, it helps to know that there’s a product out there that’s small, powerful, and affordable too!

Designer: FLUX

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Bring ideas to life with beamo, the small, simple and affordable industrial-grade laser cutter that gives you the power to make something you’ll love.

Powerful Cutting

Equipped with a 30W CO2 laser, beamo easily cuts through tons of materials, leaving clean, precise cutting edges.

Detailed Engraving

Engrave detailed patterns, intricate text, and beautiful images for gifts, home decor, or just for fun.

High Resolution

Narrower than the width of a human hair, beamo’s laser engraves with 0.05mm layer spacing. The high 1,000 DPI resolution will amaze you.

Works With Hundreds of Materials

Explore new creative possibilities with hundreds of materials. Shape, cut, and engrave on a wide range of materials including wood, leather, acrylic, fabric, cardboard, stainless steel, anodized metal, glass, cement, and much more. beamo works on almost anything you can think of.

Transform Ideas into Reality

Bring your ideas to life with beamo and make personalized gifts for your loved ones, beautiful home decors, or transform your designs into a successful business. Our online community provides an enormous range of inspirations and resources to help you make amazing things.

Ultra Portable

Now, this is a game-changer: while conventional laser cutters are bulky and heavy, beamo has the same footprint as four letter-sized sheets of paper and weighs less than 50 pounds (22 kilos). Its super portability makes it a perfect fit for your home, office, design studio, classroom, makerspace, or even the back of your car.

Powerful Software

Their powerful software, Beam Studio, helps you create without limits. FLUX has included many features common to professional graphics editing apps, providing a one-stop design experience. Edit text and vector files, modify bitmap images, align and layout objects, and use many other tools to bring your imagination to life.

At the same time, Beam Studio’s compatibility with JPG / PNG / SVG / DXF file formats makes it easy to just use the graphics editor that’s best for you — Adobe Illustrator, Autocad, Inkscape, CorelDraw, or even Microsoft Word or Powerpoint.

Live Camera Preview

Use the onboard HD camera to preview the work area and workpiece live on your laptop or phone. Just place your design exactly where you want, and get exactly what you expect. It’s WYSIWYG for laser engraving.

BeamCam and Smart Trace

Use the mobile app BeamCam, for an even easier creative process. Just take a picture, upload it using your phone, align the design, then let beamo do the rest.

Prefer drawing by hand? Easily transform your sketches into digital files by using our Smart Trace software. Smart Trace is also perfect for kids or students who love to draw or paint. Inspire them by engraving their work onto hundreds of objects.

Easy Connection

beamo uses Wi-Fi for quick setup, file transfer, and status monitoring. beamo also connects over Ethernet and via smartphone hotspot. No matter where you are, beamo is always available.

Rotary Add-on

Unlock beamo’s 3D potential with the rotary add-on, which allows you to engrave on curved objects like glassware and bottles by spinning the workpiece. This add-on also extends the maximum material height from 45mm to 105mm. This easy-to-setup module opens up a whole new set of creative possibilities.

Autofocus

This add-on adjusts the focus according to the thickness of the material, enabling beamo to cut deeper in multiple passes. For example, the autofocus add-on enables beamo to cut 6 – 7mm wood in two passes, whereas normally beamo cuts up to 5mm in 2 passes.

Hybrid Laser

Most laser cutters on the market use either CO2 or semiconductor lasers. CO2 lasers cut and engrave at faster speeds, while semiconductor lasers have a longer lifespan and can engrave on stainless steel without coating. So, why not have both? Our hybrid laser module attaches a semiconductor laser to the existing CO2 laser so you can enjoy the benefits of both. This module is currently under development, we will share more information in future updates.

Air Assist

beamo has a built-in air assist system that channels air through the laser head directly onto the material to prevent the workpiece from catching fire.

Water Cooling

While most laser cutters require external cooling, beamo features an integrated water cooling system, making it a truly compact machine. This closed-loop water cooling system circulates throughout the machine, keeping all components at the proper temperature.

Ventilation System

The ventilation system takes in clean air to circulate around the chamber. beamo comes equipped with a powerful but quiet 340CMH (200CFM) fan and a 4.7″ (12 cm) diameter hose to extract smoke and fumes through a window or vent.

Safety Door Sensor

The fully enclosed chamber prevents the laser beam from leaking out. Lifting the door during a task sets off a safety sensor that automatically pauses beamo. These safety mechanisms ensure that you’re well protected.

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FLUX Beamo Review: An Easy and Compact CO2 Laser Cutter/Engraver

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Ever since I saw a CO2 laser cutter in action at a maker space I visited, I always wanted to have one for my own workshop. The ability to cleanly cut and engrave materials with laser precision has all kinds of uses, from cutting out flat-pack models and puzzles, to adding logos and personalization to objects. But most of the more capable CO2 laser cutters on the market are expensive, difficult to use, and take up a lot of space.

The folks at FLUX aim to change that with their Beamo, a laser cutter/engraver that’s small enough to fit on a desktop, yet is powerful and versatile enough for pro-quality work. It’s also well-priced, with early bird orders on Kickstarter going for as little as $849. FLUX has a strong track record with its crowdfunded projects, having previously delivered on its well-rated Delta+ 3D printer.

Measuring in at 24.21″ (w) x 17.52″ (d) x 6.97″ (h), and weighing 48.5 pounds, the Beamo is equipped with a 30-watt CO2 laser, which basically zaps high voltage across a glass tube filled with CO2 gas, producing a powerful beam from the end of its tube. The beam is then reflected using mirrors, and crisply focused using a lens, which narrows the beam down to about 0.2mm. The Beamo’s resolution is roughly 1000 dpi, and it can engrave at speeds up to 300 mm per second.

I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a pre-production Beamo, and I have to say that I’m very impressed. It took no time to get it set up and connected to my network, and within 10 minutes of opening the box, I had my first completed piece. Everything comes pre-assembled in the box – all you need to do is connect the Wi-Fi antenna (or an Ethernet cable), attach the vent hose to the back of the printer, and plug it in. You’ll definitely want to run that vent hose to a window, as it’s important to keep the fumes in your space to a minimum.

The Beamo can engrave a variety of different materials, including wood, cardboard, fabric, glass, acrylic, leather, stone, tile, and more. Cutting is limited to cardboard, paper, wood, acrylic, and other similar lightweight materials, with maximum thicknesses between 3mm and 5mm. There’s enough room inside the machine to handle objects up to 11.81″ by 8.27″ (300 x 210 mm), and as tall as 1.77″ (45 mm.)

Preparing for a cutting or engraving job is as simple as placing your object on the ventilated surface, flipping down the plastic calibration clip on the head unit, then loosening the knurled knob on the laser head and adjusting it to the height of the object. This ensures a sharp beam focus. This manual adjustment process is easy and takes only a couple of seconds, though buyers can opt for an autofocus module, which also enables slightly deeper cuts in woods (up to 7mm.) That tool is currently bundled with a rotary module, which allows for engraving on curved surfaces, such as drinking glasses.

Working with the Beamo Studio desktop application is quite easy. It works on both Mac OS and Windows (I used the Mac version), and provides an intuitive interface for setting up your artwork. Since the Beamo has a built-in camera, you first use the Camera tool to preview your work piece, then you can start arranging your digital cutting files. The app works with SVG and DXF vector files, as well as JPG and PNG bitmap art. Vector files generally produce sharper images, but with a high enough resolution bitmap, the Beamo does just fine too.

The software comes with presets for a variety of materials and job types, and you can create multi-layered jobs with different settings. For instance, you could import one layer with sharp vector lines, another layer with a bitmap shading, and yet another layer, and set it to cut an outline. This way you can create complicated objects in a single pass. FLUX also plans on releasing a mobile app which will allow users to snap photos, place them using the Beamo’s camera, then send them for output, but it hasn’t been released for review as of yet.

 

The Beamo made quick and precise work of the wood, paper, mirrored glass, and leather that I tested with, though the irregularities of leather cause some blurring that you don’t get in flatter and smoother materials like wood. For materials not listed, you might have to experiment on some scrap to get the power, speed, and repetition settings right. Be sure to avoid using certain plastics, foams, and adhesives with a laser cutter, as it can create toxic fumes or damage the machine.  Render times can vary dramatically depending on the material and complexity of job you’re outputting. Smaller jobs can take as little as a minute, while the most complex images I tested with took 20 minutes or so.

I cannot recommend the FLUX Beamo highly enough. It brings the power of CO2 laser cutting and engraving down to a size and price that many more people can afford, and unlike some crowdfunding projects, the hardware and software is ready for primetime. The Kickstarter campaign for the Beamo is running through Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 11:00 am Central Time, so if you want to get in on one of the earlier units and pre-release pricing as low as $849, now is the time.

For those looking for a larger work area, FLUX is also readying the Beambox, which can work with objects as large as 15.7″ x 14.7″, and cuts material up to 10mm thick. That model is quite a bit more expensive, though, with prices starting at $2499.

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Glowforge Laser Cutter: Make-A-Sketch

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“What if you could cut a piece of wood in half by drawing a line on it?”, Glowforge Founder and CEO Dan Shapiro asks in his interview with Tested. That’s the elevator pitch for his company’s eponymous machine: A nearly idiot proof CNC laser cutter and engraver. If you know how to use a pencil and a smartphone, then you know how to operate Glowforge.

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Glowforge uses a 40W carbon dioxide laser to engrave and cut (and someday even carve) a variety of materials, from acrylic to chocolate. But you already knew that. What Glowforge does differently is its vision-based and cloud-powered software. All you have to do is use a web app to drag-and-drop your design(s) over an image of your material(s) as they sit on the machine’s 12″x 20″ work area.

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You can choose from material-based presets for the laser’s settings or input and save your own. And yes, Glowforge also has a trace mode where instead of using a template file, you’ll just sketch on the material itself and Glowforge will cut over the sketch.

Glowforge works with a variety of image files and software, including AutoCAD, Inkscape, Illustrator and PhotoShop. To sustain its user-friendly approach, Glowforge will also set up an online marketplace where you can download both free and paid templates and instructions for making a variety of objects.

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Here’s Tested’s interview with Dan. You can skip to around 10:57 if you want to see Glowforge’s production version in action.

You can pre-order Glowforge on the company’s website. The basic version costs $1,995 (USD) while the one with an air filter costs $2,495. There’s also a $4,495 Pro model that has a 45W laser and better optics, a passthrough slot and software that lets you work on items of indefinite length and an improved cooling system.

[via Tested]