Laser Projects
Cutting, engraving, and the occasional small fire. Each post has the details, process, and settings you need to duplicate it yourself.
Man Card (5 design options)
A metal Man Card you can hand out or confiscate as needed. Five AI-generated designs, two engraved aluminum cards, and the exact xTool F1 settings that worked.
Nametag Placard + Business Card Holder
An acrylic desk placard that clips onto a laser-engraved aluminum business card. About $2 in materials and half an hour of laser time — real settings included.
Wood Engraving: Fire Bear
An AI-generated firefighter-bear logo, laser-engraved onto a turtle-shaped hardwood tray. The whole workflow: prompt, typeface, xTool Creative Space, burn.
Black Aluminum Business Cards
Engrave your own metal business cards on an xTool F1 for about sixteen cents each. Two designs, the two-layer settings that work on black aluminum, and a safety lecture worth actually reading.
Material Settings and Calibration
The cut and engrave settings I actually recorded, pulled out of my project write-ups and collected on one page: 3 mm black acrylic and anodized aluminum cards on the xTool F1.