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This barrel is the first stage of dust-collection for our CNC – Air and dust come in one side, dodge past some vertical…

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After doubling our power, and quadrupling our cooling we were excited to test-drive our new laser and push the limits… and it wasn’t that far beyond our old laser cutter. Which seems wrong – it should be twice as good!

So we started tinkering with the other variables, and we discovered that the volume of introduced air plays a huge part in how efficient the cut is. Too little air – like our current airbrush compressor – and we wouldn’t clear the soot from our cut. Then we tried too much air,…

This article is for the Cloudray M100 Laser Power Supply, but it should apply across the entire M-series of Cloudray Supplies. Full Disclosure: This is an affiliate link. Even if you never intend to order a massive CO2 laser, just clicking that link will still help us stay afloat – Thanks!

The power-supply comes with this sweet…

Welcome to our infodump on doubling the power of your laser cutter! We’ve got a RedSail, but this should apply to the entire genre, so lets jump in!

First of all, links:
Laser: https://amzn.to/4jb3jAE
Power supply: https://amzn.to/3E6LaVD
Chiller: https://amzn.to/3FXQJ9r
Mirrors: https://amzn.to/4cnvjhT
Cheaper lasers I used for a totally unrelated project which are still badass: https://amzn.to/44f9X4f

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Get it? On the ShopBot? Because…  I know, it’s a terrible pun, but I actually did most of the work with the ShopBot too!  This post is designed to show off what you can do with the tools in our shop – we offer free training for everything shown in this post, and it’s easier than I thought!

   The story starts when my friend made fun of my entry-way table, which is always covered in stuff. I realized I need an entryway cabinet, so I could hide all of that stuff in drawers! So I was bouncing…

• If you’re not a programmer, you can download the software here. Run the exe, load the sample SVGs, play around, and feel free to skip the details in the rest of this post.
• If you are a programmer and want to follow along, or think you can improve this software, please do! The source is available here  .

So… I decided I would make another cabinet (post coming next week!). And then, messing about in CAD, I realized I could create cool patterns with parametrically related circles. The only issue…

So… I still have 4000 spoons (please buy some) and needed better storage for them at the Hackerspace, so I decided to build a cabinet. This also gave me a first chance to break into furniture-making, which has always fascinated me. The goals here were cheap and fast, so we’re going to take a lot of shortcuts. However, I always try to learn one new skill on every project, so this week we’re learning wood-bending!

First off, I got a sheet of “fancy plywood” from Home-Depot. I’m sure there’s a…

I know we all expect mobile games to be rigged. Anything goes in the name of engagement and retention numbers, but it’s always hard to prove. Hidden odds, complicated algorithms and “power ups”, and incomprehensible stat sheets all obfuscate the actual pRNG (psuedo Random Number Generator). But recently, a mobile game I’d been playing held a special event that let you roll dice. This should be a clear look straight at the results of the RNG, but is it?

To find out, I rolled a pair of…

About a year ago, we were smashing up a TV with Mammoth (video) and I fell in love with the look of the broken LCD, and decided to make it into a table-top. Despite veering wildly offcourse throughout this build – and using almost none of the original parts – that carnage set this project underway.

First step was to CNC the base, an array of hexagons to serve as cells beneath the surface. You might think the first step would be to figure out what the end product would look like… but nah. I…