Frickin Laser Beams!

Nikodemus posted a pic said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 6:22pm ET

So curious, is anyone else feeling a little crazy, a little evil mastermind or both and pre-order a http://glowforge.com/ ?

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dashcloud said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 7:55pm ET:

@harrison I think Meh needs one of these for science & research purposes, right?

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- @dashcloud He would just take it apart.
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 10:46pm ET
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- @sammydog01 @dashcloud are you kidding? I'd be cutting so many things, provided I could wrestle it away from @KyleThePhotoGuy
  
  harrison said Mon, Sep 28th 2015 at 11:59am ET
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hallmike said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 8:06pm ET:

There are only a couple projects I would like to do, then it would turn into a $2000 dust collector.

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- @hallmike I thought that for my 3d printer, but is been about 7 months and I still keep printing things. Granted only occasionally constructive but still stuff keeps getting made.
  
  Nikodemus said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 8:28pm ET
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- @Nikodemus What kinds of things? Got any pictures of what you've made?
  
  hallmike said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 9:05pm ET
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- @hallmike Whats hanging out on my desk at the moment. Agent 47 and Lara getting prehistoric
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  Nikodemus said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 11:01pm ET
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- @Nikodemus Cool! Thanks for the pic. May I ask which printer you chose?
  
  hallmike said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 11:06pm ET
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- @hallmike sure it's a Lulzbot Taz 4
  
  Nikodemus said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 11:29pm ET
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Foxborn said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 9:38pm ET:

seems more like a laser cutter to me. Meh. what do I know about 3d printers

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- @Foxborn enough to know the difference apparently.
  
  katylava said Mon, Sep 28th 2015 at 1:21pm ET
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- @Foxborn It' just like the laser printer sitting outside my office except in well every possible way.
  
  Nikodemus said Mon, Sep 28th 2015 at 1:38pm ET
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thismyusername said Sun, Sep 27th 2015 at 10:32pm ET:

Also lasers, but not the same thing... I am holding out for a Form 2...

But the glowforge does look cool... here is hoping it fails and meh sells em for $100 each. ;)

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walarney said Mon, Sep 28th 2015 at 12:30am ET:

Rulersmith is near me. Friendly and accommodating when I visited. It didn't work out for what I needed at the time, but I keep wishing I had project that needed giant CNC CO2 laser cutting.

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editorkid said Mon, Sep 28th 2015 at 12:58pm ET:

$500 for an air filter? How stinky am I?

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thismyusername said Thu, Oct 22nd 2015 at 1:50am ET:

Just saw this about the glowforge:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/we-use-a-2000-glowforge-to-make-stuff-out-of-frickin-lasers/

The video shows it in action.

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mfladd said Fri, Oct 23rd 2015 at 8:30am ET:

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Bogie said Fri, Oct 23rd 2015 at 9:20am ET:

I helped a friend of mine set up a laser engraving company. The commercial grade laser engravers he purchased were $18,000 each. I bug him all the time to let me interrupt his production so I can do stuff on one of them. I wonder if it's worth purchasing this so I can just do it myself...

I've laser engraved leather before, which interests me a lot! Just not sure I can get my wife sold on spending the $4,000 on the pro version.

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Lotsofgoats said Fri, Oct 23rd 2015 at 10:23am ET:

hey look a 3D printer at its best price!

NOTE: woefully lacking laser beams

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Bogie said Mon, Oct 26th 2015 at 4:16pm ET:

Ended up buying one of the basics. Use my referral link to save $100 (I get $100 back too!)

http://glowforge.com/?kid=x9r9V8

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- In case you guys think I'm crazy (I am a little bit), see my comment above regarding my laser engraving history. Here's a project where I played with with leather and a laser:
  
  Link to Imgur Album with pictures
  
  We plan on doing a bit more with this and the Laser.
  
  Bogie said Mon, Oct 26th 2015 at 4:38pm ET
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