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first books is the number one cloud accounting software designed for the way that you want to work for your free 30-day unrestricted trial go to FreshBooks com forward slash line of CES and enter - tech tips and the how did you hear about us section we're here at glowforge checking out their glowforge it's a laser etcher and cutter that is more set up and designed for everyone to be able to use instead of just engineers and the features that bring it to that point start with their easy web app where you can upload 3d grayscale images and raster or vector formats it can auto detect the material that you put inside if you use there proof grade materials if not you can just tell it what material is inside it can cut things or engrave things like plastics and woods and it has lots of really cool automatically based features like the one we used here which was able to cut our logo into a puzzle without us doing any extra work and the quality of life improvements just kind of keep on going it has a camera built into it so that you can actually see what the laser engravers see so when you need to set your object inside you don't have to do it with a whole bunch of different measurements and stuff you can just line it up with a camera and you're good to go it also is able to auto focus the camera along a curve so if you're doing something like engraving the top of a Macbook it can see the edges and engrave along the edges autofocusing the laser so you don't have any mistakes on the side and you don't have to do anything way too fancy they use mirrors to redirect the laser this can sometimes be an issue because if the mirror is misaligned it can cause various problems we would prefer that they use something like fiber optics but they put the mirrors into solid aluminum blocks and once a bolt is in place those things aren't moving so it should probably be fine the delicate components in the head are also completely sealed off which is great because that means less maintenance for you as it won't be able to get gummed up but if you do need to access it you can just simply remove it with a few magnets there's three stepper motors to move everything around you've got one on each side to control the y-axis and then one in the back to control the x-axis the laser moves along with the head in terms of the y-axis to keep everything aligned thing that you might notice is that it's not the biggest unit ever but that doesn't completely limit you in terms of y-axis printing you can actually print things that go pretty far because it has a pass-through slot so you can feed things through the laser engraver while it's going so it doesn't completely work right now but theoretically what will happen is you'll put part of it in it'll laser engrave what it needs to it'll cut what it needs to and then when it's ready you can feed more of it in and they'll just do the next part and so on and so forth until you're done but said pass-through slot does come at an additional expense if you do want the basic version that's four thousand dollars it comes with a 40 watt laser and that's about it no pass-through slot no built-in venting if you do want to vent it out you can send it out through a window or you can just do it outside or something like that or you can spend a thousand dollars and buy that built-in vent if you want to jump up to the pro version that's eight thousand dollars it has that $1,000 vent built-in it has the pass-through slot and it has a 45 watt laser so that can do faster cuts well for the average consumer definitely including myself this is really expensive it is cool to see a more consumer focused laser etcher slash cutter now you don't just have to be an engineer or have one at your school or something like that you can do this at home if you can afford it speak your be able to afford things be able to afford more things by using fresh books and running your business through it you can create invoices in less than 30 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