Weekly Highlights for January 8th-14th

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Last Week’s Goodies:
Highlights for the Week of January 1, 2017 (Happy New Year Edition)

Staff Quotable Quotes:

Congrats takitus on making the front page of Reddit!

I think this is only the second time something Glowforge-made has been submitted to reddit. The last time was the catan board.

Cooling: Basic versus Pro

Rumors about the Full Spectrum Muse Laser

The Basic uses a radiator to cool the closed-loop liquid system; the Pro adds a second, active chiller (the Peltier) that is indeed right before the exhaust.

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Pre-Release and Beta Projects:

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I Like to Make Stuff

Another Pre-Release Sighted!

If you aren’t familiar with Bob from I Like To Make Stuff, you should be! Go check him out! [image]

Heirloom Recipe Cutting Boards

Heirloom Recipe Engraved Bamboo Cutting Boards

Another of my dreams came true on a Glowforge. When I first saw the Flammarion Engraving cutting board topic I knew I would want to do a family recipe engraved on a bamboo cutting board to give out to my family. My brother Michael provided a photo of an old recipe hand written by my mom on the back of an envelope. I played with that a bit and did one board with those results. The recipe is for pot wurst, a meat hash that is thickened and extended with oatmeal. My mom’s parents made this every C…

Scorin’ Corian

Corian Scoring and Engraving

[image] [image] After @karaelena’s demo of marble, I got a piece of corian out. This is a 4x4" piece .47" thick. I did a small test of an initial in the lower right corner, stopped it and just did the whole thing. Did a combination of trace and engrave to try and highlight the ducking in and out of the knot work. I’m pretty happy with it. 5%, 335 in/min at 340 lpi. I have a whole box of these pieces in many different colors. One thing to note about the scoring. Compared to the etching it …

Corian Scoring and Engraving

Thinking about embossing, stamping, relief engraving and the variations of depth of engrave and height of relief. Then thinking of what it would look like in a press on leather. Just thinking. [image][image] [image] [image] 2" square tile of white Corian, .46" thick. The depth of the engrave is from .75 to .9 mm. The height of the relief is .75 to .85 mm. 50% power, 200 in/min. 675 lpi. 32 minutes process. Was surprised that the engrave got so off center to the material. Interesting. I…

3D Etching

Trying to do some 3D type etching

I wanted to try doing a 3D type etch using greyscale imaging with the new walnut I got. I decided to make a school crest for my daughter who’s a bit of a Potter fan. I started with a design I found online and fist did an auto-trace in illustrator. Then I started breaking out the individual animals into separate objects so I could layer them over some backgrounds (easier for me to work with and update later than just filling in holes around them). Then I worked on some background textures for…

Pick-Achu (Cutting Acetal)

You can pick your friends

For Christmas my daughter got a Ukulele from my mother. It seems like every waking moment since then she walks around the house playing it and making up songs. She wanted a pick for it so we decided to try making one out of some 1/32" acetal plastic I had and wanted to test with anyhow. I’d already created a Reuleaux triangle shape for a rotary engine design I was working on and decided to use that. It even had a hole in the middle with gear teeth that might be interesting. I made an altern…

Making Adjustments to the Engraving Power

Pre-Release | I am Groot

Ive been wrestling a bit with this issue lately. A number of things ive been trying to engrave have either been burning or just obliterating completely on the lower power and highest speed. (paper, cork, foam, cedar) e.g. [image] Keep in mind these are raster engraves. I havent been trying vector scores, but this fix could apply to that as well. I have found a hacky way to get a little better results for these sensitive materials. my images have all been grayscale images with black (0,0,0) be…

More Chaotica Fun

Chaotica

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Playing with Masking

Pre-Release - Detail Engraves, Proofgrade, and Why Masking Is Great

Leaving some masking on can be cool too [image]

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Projects from Forum Members:

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(Unsanctioned) Glowforge Poetry Contest

Glowfolk original poetry, limericks, short stories, etc

Do we have any poets, writers, etc here? How about a Glowforge inspired limerick or poem? Man on a String Love is a kite’s string… When with wind in its sails… Rises above where the clouds sing… Untethered…it fails. You are the pilot… My heart’s the kite… You tug…release me… I quiver…I fight. There’s a connection between us… Together we soar… My heart’s doing circles For the one I adore. Copyright ©2008

CMYK Coasters

CMYK Coasters

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Free Laser Cutting Classes

Free Fusion 360 class

Jon-o-tron also published a free beginner’s guide to lasercuting