With the leather satchel they show, isn't the difficult really in stitching it?
The laser cuts the holes perfectly-- so you do have to stitch it, but there's no skill involved-- just time. :-)
Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
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Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
(founder/CEO here) I vented a 60W chinese laser out my window for a year in the suburbs, but I've learned never to underestimate what neighbors may complain complain about. The air filter is definitely a good idea. If you do the math on the volume, and compare it to the actual volume of the filter of e.g. a Purex, you'll find it's similar. Almost half of the volume of the Purex is in the fans or open airspace; we hav…
Is it true the machine requires connection to internet or your cloud to cut or engrave? I was about to order a Pro until I read this in the comments. I expect to be able to use this machine with my laptop running some program and "send to laser", no internet connection required.
Based on his response[1] to a question here 220 days ago, sounds like it does require an internet connection...
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
(founder/CEO here) I vented a 60W chinese laser out my window for a year in the suburbs, but I've learned never to underestimate what neighbors may complain complain about. The air filter is definitely a good idea. If you do the math on the volume, and compare it to the actual volume of the filter of e.g. a Purex, you'll find it's similar. Almost half of the volume of the Purex is in the fans or open airspace; we hav…
As always, HN never fails to make sure the top comment is negative in some way. Dan, I think this is a phenomenal product. I didn't know much about laser cutters and their potential, and you did a great job making this accessible. I wish you luck and hope to see your company grow.
I'd consider the original comment a positive contribution. Just because it can be seen as having a negative tone, this one of caution, it is backed up with a heft of substance explaining the thought process behind it. It also resulted in another informative response from the founder. That's a good thing we should encourage.
A negative comment is one that doesn't contribute anything. A negative generalization about a community that doesn't provide an explanation could be seen as an example of a negative comment.
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#144$954 shipping cost to UK. Isn't it a bit high?
Also UK regulations says I need to be supervised to use a class 4 laser since I can point it to somewhere I shouldn't. I wonder if that's still valid for an enclosed product.
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#145In the video, at about 13:40 they reveal that to print you have to use the web interface which runs "On Googles Cloud". I would not like the interface to my own printer to be "In the Google cloud". Does that mean when the company goes out of business, the printer is bricked? And right after, they admit that they plan adding paid services. Oh oh. How will thesed paid services be announced? I can imagine how. Whenever…
Open source to the rescue: https://github.com/kallaballa/ctrl-cut
As someone who runs an Epilog laser and had never come across this — Thank You!
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Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#146Dan's story about making a wallet with the laser is amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=292&v=0R3mMUsHFvU "No, I have a laser!"
Why would a making a wallet require "half a cow" ?
Is making a leather wallet as nearly-impossible as he claims? http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-leather-wallet...
The video feels like infomercial schtick.
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
(founder/CEO here) I vented a 60W chinese laser out my window for a year in the suburbs, but I've learned never to underestimate what neighbors may complain complain about. The air filter is definitely a good idea. If you do the math on the volume, and compare it to the actual volume of the filter of e.g. a Purex, you'll find it's similar. Almost half of the volume of the Purex is in the fans or open airspace; we hav…
As always, HN never fails to make sure the top comment is negative in some way. Dan, I think this is a phenomenal product. I didn't know much about laser cutters and their potential, and you did a great job making this accessible. I wish you luck and hope to see your company grow.
I think this is part of the reason I actually very much appreciate the comments section on HN. Not for negativity, but because often the top comment is a good summation of the caveats to whatever's behind a given link. People selling products are not wont to tell me why their product might not be as great as it seems, unless required to by law. Even then, only in tiny print.
I'm certainly not an expert in many areas (Lasers for one), including many of the areas that these products pop up in, so when something seems too good to be true (or if I happen to have said expertise) the first thing I do is hop over to comments to see what the rest of the community has to say.
I always try to take both links and comments with a grain of salt and a healthy dose of skepticism and try to come to my own conclusions. That's not easy to do if I only get one side of the story and I don't happen to have years of experience in the relevant fields.
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#148Looks like a great toy until you go through comments here. Honestly would have bought this for my woman, since she's into crafts and stuff, but cloud-only cutting/engraving, comments on fumes and filters + dealing with customs (if they even shipping int) quickly changed my mind. I've seen laser engravers on kickstarter before, hope to see more machines that do not require clouds to cut/etch a damn thing.
I really feel like if there are enough of these out there and the company somehow decides to brick all of them (not that likely IMHO) that someone will be able to come up with an open source solution for controlling it. I'd like to know what their privacy policy is but I'm not particularly worried about it becoming a multi-thousand dollar hunk of plastic. I do wonder why the pre-order price is SO much cheaper than th…
They want to motivate interested buyers to pre-order. The "actual" price is FUD.
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#149Looks like a great toy until you go through comments here. Honestly would have bought this for my woman, since she's into crafts and stuff, but cloud-only cutting/engraving, comments on fumes and filters + dealing with customs (if they even shipping int) quickly changed my mind. I've seen laser engravers on kickstarter before, hope to see more machines that do not require clouds to cut/etch a damn thing.
These aren't really for home use. They are for Maker spaces and workshops and schools.
Your partner should bring her design to a local workshop to cut, unless she wants to open the local workshop.
Re: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
(founder/CEO here) I vented a 60W chinese laser out my window for a year in the suburbs, but I've learned never to underestimate what neighbors may complain complain about. The air filter is definitely a good idea. If you do the math on the volume, and compare it to the actual volume of the filter of e.g. a Purex, you'll find it's similar. Almost half of the volume of the Purex is in the fans or open airspace; we hav…
As always, HN never fails to make sure the top comment is negative in some way. Dan, I think this is a phenomenal product. I didn't know much about laser cutters and their potential, and you did a great job making this accessible. I wish you luck and hope to see your company grow.
Negative comments are appropriate in this case. This looked so amazing, but the comments here point out the very important fact that this requires access to the internet to function, something that the co-founder so far hasn't addressed in the comments despite numerous requests for an answer.