Love that you’re putting ideas out there. As for more work for GF to have to do before they ship the item, I think they have their hands full as it is. Not sure they would be willing to pile more on their plate.
Markevans - sign me up for the t-shirts! That would be AWESOME! If you have a design, I have a company that can make them reasonable. I’d even be willing to handle the shipping.
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I don’t expect this to be put in the released product initially, (I just want my basic functioning laser ha-ha) but I don’t see the harm of throwing them out there. Who knows what will stick eventually.
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Love ideas like this - and definitely goes in the hopper, if not for launch, then for consideration after.
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Pondering my need for a booster fan for the lengthy exhaust duct, it occurred to me, a switched power connection on the Glowforge would allow connection of peripheral equipment to be energized when the machine is powered on - eliminating the need for me to remember it! 
Something for the next iteration perhaps.
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Or something for the handy tinkerer to add. I may have a long ventilation run so this might be a good solution for me.
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IFTT integration on the Glowforge is sounding like a better and better idea:
Someone asked for a way to monitor cutting time for billing use of the Glowforge:
If you have an IFTT recipe to trigger at start and end of cut, trivial.
This request now for power control of a booster ventilation fan.
If you have an IFTT recipe that triggers an IoT power receptacle at start and end of cut… trivial.
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@jacob - yes IFTT or some other mechanism for logging time to job, when it comes to costing jobs for clients this would be so useful.
It would also let us get a sense of the lifespan of the GF too.
I have a feeling that cost of a job might be equally made up of materials, time + replacement laser tubes
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Alignment + registration.
The more jobs I think about doing the more these two come up.
Simple example: I want to laser cut pre-printed playing cards and playing tokens for games.
That means for single sided only cutting I need to have perfect registration.
My feeling is being able to line up a specific point under some sort of cross hair, then being able to rotate around the cross hair to get it squared up exactly.
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Easily make a jig to lay down or insert what ever it is that you need to print. Make sure the underside image is in the same spot as the upside image. Flip the material and go…
I do it all the time.
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Is that the same as IFTTT (If this then that)? Wikipedia doesn’t seem to know what IFTT means and finds IFTTT instead.
Thanks - is that the same as this?
Looks like a neat concept that is new to me. So much technology, so little time .
Yep. That’s the same. I think that’s what Jacob was referring to. I didn’t look at Wikipedia - figured you were thinking it was just the acronym. The IFTTT recipes allow you to link activities and triggering events. If the GF can create signals that can be redirected to the IFTTT site (for things like “job start” “job stop” etc) you could then generate a bill for the time used automatically. Or his other example was using it to automatically start & stop a fan in your exhaust line when the job starts & ends so it’s not always running whenever the GF is running (like it would if you put it on a single power strip) and only runs when you’re actually cutting. You could include a delay - say 15 seconds - after the job ends before the power to the fan is cut so it clears any remaining fumes from the box before you opened it.
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Oops, forgot a T. Yes, I meant the platform IF This, Then That. A very useful and remarkably basic concept.
Guess it has been shortened to “IF - Do”…
Where is the registration for the whips and chains?
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Those are kept in the dungeon…
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No worries, that sort of thing happens way too often to me so I tend to recognize the symptoms.