Glowforge Laser cutter

[BeeAmaker]

makezine.com/2015/10/22/a-closer-look-at-the-glowforge-laser-cutter/

Not sure a 40watt laser is worth $3990.00. Pre-0rder crowd funding was 50% off, $1995.00

[captaininfosec]

I've been wanting to add a laser cutter to my shop, but couldn't quite talk myself into the Glowforge. It's unreleased hardware with a cloud back-end, which means if the vendor doesn't succeed you'll have a laser with no interface. If they do succeed, I expect they'll drive prices down and features up, which means my entry to the market would be easier.

I suspect their delivery will be longer than they expect, and hopefully they succeed, and the market has to play catch up. For $2k (or $2500 with the filter, which makes a lot of sense), I'll wait!

[navkram]

I was against this one from the start, the campaign was saying this was a 3d laser printer, when I ask the question on how this was a printer I got a BS response about it, a marketing guy riding the 3d printer hype. they are going to be the next kickstarter UP IN FLAMES..... misleading advertising, slick willie promo videos, etc. etc.

its all cloud based, pay to get files prepped to cut, all around BAD deal, read one response and this will not cut anything if not connected to internet. proprietary software.

now it does look like there are a few really nice features build into this, cameras to locate art work, auto focus, ability to change focus length on the fly so you can cut on irregular surface ( but not a huge curve there is a limit.)

I have been around laser engravers/cutter since Brian started. they make it look so simple, I think once they start shipping and the hobby mom and dad get this their tech support and failures will be huge.

I love the part of the video where they show it on a kitchen counter top and the dad removes a piece of food out of it and hands it to his kid, then she takes a bite of it and runs off, that has to be safe

but that's just my opinion.