The influx of cheap laser cutters from China has been a boon to the maker movement, if at the cost of a lot of tinkering to just get the thing to work. So some people just prefer to roll their own, ...

Conventional cut-to-length lines cut sheets from coil and feed them to an inventory buffer held either at the service center ...

A conveyor presents parts and portions of the remaining skeleton to an operator, who sorts pieces into bins. Laser cutting is “finished” because those pieces aren’t sitting on a shelf, tabbed in a ...

Laser cutters are in a fun place right now. Gone are the days when the cheapest machines were tens of thousands of dollars, and when the “compact” models were roughly the size of a freezer. They’ve ...

There's been an incredible amount of hype around the xTool F2 Ultra, and rightly so. This dual-laser Galvo engraver is ...

Just to kick off this party, don't get a laser head for your desktop CNC. Just don't. Xenocrates wrote up a much better reason than I could possibly do, so here it is. Non-quoted so the whole thing ...

So a local "maker space" has two introductory workshops. One for laser cutting/engraving, the other on 3D printing. Ideally I'd visit both, since I'm clueless in both techniques and I haven't designed ...

Whether you're processing high-volume work or custom orders, it's not as difficult as you may imagine to lower overall expenses of laser-cutting projects. Laser cutting is a popular choice for ...