Thankfully, [John Sokol] has come up with a way to laser cut his own LEGO ... [John] was able to find an engraving setting that worked well with dry-erase whiteboard MDF — an unusual material ...

[Lionel Rocheleau], one of his lab technicians at DCRL was interested in doing some experiments with the laser cutter, so they came up with this experiment… By raster engraving a piece of ...

Laser cutting works by directing a laser together with a motion control system to follow a pattern to be cut out of a sheet of material. The laser either melts, burns, vaporizes away the material, or ...

Using some 6mm MDF off-cuts, the laser showed that at 17mm/s at 85% power with two passes, it could make a clean cut, with 100% power being the preferred setting. Likewise, switching to engraving ...

For precision, speed, and fine-detail, only the best laser engraver will make the cut. I tested out a range of laser engraving machines, and these are my top-rated recommendations for crafters ...