I got this laser for free. Is it any good?
Now for something a bit different. I get these poorly translated spammy emails all the time so I started taking advantage of them. This thing is a heck of a lot better than I expected it to be, so that's good. Now let's see what other surprisingly useful crap I can get from these emails. I already have another laser engraver coming. What's next?
I Got This Laser Engraver For Free. Was It Worth It? (YouTube)
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This is a great video but you seriously need to get proper PPE goggles for that thing. The ones it came with, I guarantee you, do somewhere between “woefully insufficient” and “nothing at all”, and even that diode is powerful enough to cause damage just from looking at the dot.
Aside from making squares, circles, square circles and pictures, what can you actually do with it?
So... how do the people who send these emails and products "for free" actually enforce the fact a video review is made? And I have to say, is this really a video review? Till the last minute or two of the video, it wasn't exactly positive...
A review isn’t necessarily positive 🤷♂️
Isnt a 'Rectangular circle’ just called a rectangle or square?
A squircle with vertices.
Buy properly rated laser goggles for the wavelength used. The glasses those things come with are at best not that effective, and at worse, actually do nothing for the wavelength on the laser they came with. An easy way to test how effective they are is just to try lasering paper with a sacrifical part of the glasses in the way. Those things can instantly cause eye damage and/or blindness from just reflections. It's worth dropping a couple hundred in the property PPE.
I bet you could take the engraver off the mdf base, and then plop it down on any large surface to engrave it. Like the Dakota hood someone mentioned above. Or the floor. Could probably even figure out a way to clamp it to a wall or maybe the side of the bus.
not gonna lie, Im actually super interested in what that contract was
I really wish I could share it, but that might be pushing it a bit
Also I actually have a glow forge it’s fun but the glue gave out on one hinge and now it won’t print right and I have to pay like 300 round trip to ship it to glowforge to fix it. Eventually
Laser i grave the hood of the destruction Dakota
That laser engraver engraver looks wild
You need to sell the wood picture of yourself with both channels listed on it and sign them.
NFT is the new hotness... oh wait that picture is a tangible item. Nevermind.
I remember the words "I need to get a sponsored video out before the end of the month" (looks at the date) WINNER!
Actually, I was talking about the go kart build video when I said that. I got that deadline pushed back to early October since I was sick for nearly a full week. I just happened to release this laser thing on the last day of the month
You're a large youtuber.
Nah, I'm a self-deprecating mid-sized YouTuber