Category Archives: Lasersaur

Finally, all the elements are in place and we’re cutting Kickstarter orders! It’s been quite a ride getting all the pieces put into place, but the first firing was successful (if not nerve-wracking…firing a laser in a homemade cutter in our shop isn’t exactly something we’ve done everyday), and we’ve already started experimenting with materials. Continue Reading

It’s been quite the month! We have a brand new baby, Kickstarter funded, and we have a fully functioning shop. After several weeks of waiting, the electrician finally finished and we’re now ready to handle the power for the laser tube. We placed the order yesterday! Brand new wiring, conduit and boxes. This is finally Continue Reading

$8065 — 134% funded — 120 backers!  We’re so excited to get this laser cutter up and running. Thank you to everyone who supported us – we had an awesome Kickstarter experience because of you! We’ll be updating often here about the build and a few other pieces of equipment we can purchase with the Continue Reading

See that little green line?? That means we’re 100% funded!! And we still have until this Saturday at midnight to continue raising funds. Anything we raise over our goal we also get to keep…so that means our wish list of equipment could potentially get whittled away. We’re so excited and can’t wait to see what the Continue Reading

Week three stats already?!? Here they are:Amount funded: 70% at $4210Backers: 86Avg pledge amount: $48.95Favorite reward: 4 branches with coastersWe’re getting close!

Thanks to Red Orchid Productions, our Kickstarter video has gotten great feedback. Red Orchid is a husband and wife duo who are awesome at what they do. They’re organized, creative, professional and incredibly efficient – we were done with filming in a handful of hours! Tory was in news production for many years at the Continue Reading

Moving the laser cutter to the new space was tricky. All of the sensitive bits had to be disassembled, reassembled and hard wired into place. Because we knew it was more than likely that we were going to move the cutter before the laser was installed, Jeff soft wired everything together so nothing would be Continue Reading

We can’t believe it! Kickstarter is finally live! And we already have a 11 backers and are 10% funded!  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/287177902/laser-made We have until August 11th to raise $6000 so help us spread the word and consider backing us before our time is up!    

We’re so excited to show you our Kickstarter project, Laser Made, that we can’t help but give you a taste of what’s coming on Monday.  We made a video so you can see everything in action: The video explains who we are, what our project is, and what we’re going to do once we raise Continue Reading

We can’t believe it’s finally here! Jeff started building the laser cutter back in May and it has been non-stop planning, scheming, designing, building, writing, and proofing since. We submitted our project to those who wield the magic Kickstarter approval wand on Monday and we got the email today that we’re good to go!  Here Continue Reading