Blog

Laser Etched Film

Laser Etched Film

ll As part of a course titled 'Movie Making Machines: Learning About Cinema in the Maker Space', some students at UNC have been studying the histor...

How to Laser Cut Chocolate

How to Laser Cut Chocolate

If you've ever wondered if it was possible to laser cut chocolate, thanks to the hard work of Fisherck, it turns out the answer is yes! In the nam...

Laser vs Bacon

Laser vs Bacon

YouTube channel Laser Destruction recently tried to cook breakfast with a laser. I'm sure you can probably guess what the outcome is, but it's stil...

Captain America's Infinity War Shield

Captain America's Infinity War Shield

Based on a lot of his previous projects, it was pretty much inevitable that The Hacksmith would be planning to tackle some of the props from the la...

Recycling Plastic

Recycling Plastic

Looking for a way to affordably recycle the abundance of plastic in maker environments, Agustin Flowalistik has been working on turning PLA remnant...

Our 5 favourite William Osman Projects

Our 5 favourite William Osman Projects

It's been a tough few months for laser enthusiast and cat t-shirt collector William Osman. Like many others, William lost his home to the wildfires...

Using Laser Tape To Acid Etch Brass

Using Laser Tape To Acid Etch Brass

As part of his project to reproduce the James Watt micrometer, Machine Thinking needed to make a couple of graduated brass dials and spent a lot of...

From Russia, With Love

From Russia, With Love

The Hacksmith has been wanting to build some form of laser blaster for a few years now, even buying a couple of spare 80W C02 laser tubes for the p...

Levitating Diamonds With Lasers

Levitating Diamonds With Lasers

Professional mad scientist Styropyro has recently returned to youtube with a slew of new laser related content, the most interesting of which is pe...