Laser etching Microsoft Surface laptop

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Something like this:

Leveling system for pour painting

(Note: this is a personal project, not supported by Glowforge… I do get to do these from time to time, CEO privilege. ) I’ve been playing around with pour painting with my kids, and the results are just stunning! [image] That’s a scrap of Proofgrade acrylic that my daughter used to create this pour painting. You can learn more about pour painting from a million youtube videos - basically you mix cheap paint and glue, put it in a cup, then dump the cup. It’s just as easy as it …

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The Trayless Jig-O-Matic

So probably my most famous post here is the tutorial on how to cut without the tray. And I do it frequently, and I needed to do a mass production run of cutting boards which will require the tray to get removed. Since it’s like 34 boards I figured a jig would make it so much easier. So I designed this flexible jig. I designed it for 3D printing (but actually would be trivial to make with draft board (or any other material). The 2 added items are the tabs on the side to tape down the jigs into pl…

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Another set of crumb tray removal jigs

Started working on non-standard thickness materials. Took the plunge and engraved my 13” MacBook Air using the GF MacBook Pro presets. Jigs worked perfectly! The plan is to cut 4 more to support my materials with 8 points on 4 sides and add magnets. The highest step setting is 1.445” so higher than the crumb tray’s 1.367” Notice since the Air is thinner on the front than the back. I used the 2nd and 3rd level steps to achieve a level working height. [image] [image] [image] [image] Crumb …

Lots of ideas My usual go to is just cramming pieces in there until it looks right