How Do Laser Beams Engrave Things? (slow motion)

How Do Laser Beams Engrave Things? (slow motion) | WIRED

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Жыл бұрын

A fiber laser can carve super intricate designs into any metal in just 10 seconds. The laser is getting so hot the metal is vaporizing away, yet it does nothing to our skin. As we play the video back and watch these lasers in slow motion, Alexander Sellite of "Laser Everything" breaks down everything we need to know about fiber lasers and how they function.
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@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

Thank you guys so much for coming by the studio. It was an honor to be able to work with you and show off this amazing technology!

@sweebos Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! ✌️

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

@@sweebos We had a lot of fun just glad I got the opportunity!

@muddimanmustang Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Congrats

@markbreidenbaugh6033 Жыл бұрын

Dude! So excited that they invited you on for this episode! Great job presenting.

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

@@markbreidenbaugh6033 I did my best lol

@shize9ine Жыл бұрын

If 180fps ‘slow motion’ is the best your hardware can do, why not rent a phantom? 1:42 - B roll plasma cutter, not laser.

@3k2p6 Жыл бұрын

How can you call 180fps slow motions... Oh my god, bring the slow mo guys to film this.

@Pood369 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

@DrorF Жыл бұрын

At least they didn't do the dramatic 'slowing down effect' 😁

@InappropriateShorts Жыл бұрын

@@DrorF bullet time was revolutionary. Show some gd respect.

@Ripen3 11 ай бұрын

Lol exactly, i came for the slowmo😒

@7H07sAndH03s 26 күн бұрын

It wouldn’t be much different except the surface getting engraved a little slowly. It would look cool but then thats it. The light is very fast and you wont see it.

@khalilahd. Жыл бұрын

This is actually incredible. Crazy what technology can do these days 😅

@practicallyprinz Жыл бұрын

You'll be amazed to hear there are 3d applications, Cutters, glass engravers, plastic etc

@AmasikoCustomDesigns Жыл бұрын

I’m a member of the Laser Everything community and you won’t find a better place to learn and share your knowledge with other laser businesses owners. Great KZfaq channel and social media accounts.

@mrs.lasereverything Жыл бұрын

We have a great social media manager 👍

@sweebos Жыл бұрын

This was amazing to see! I knew a tiny bit about this process, but this was informative and incredibly entertaining.

@justayoutuber1906 Жыл бұрын

It is called a fiber laser because the laser light is both generated and delivered by a fiber optic cable.

@willhouse Жыл бұрын

That color engraving is *bonkers*

@krish6099 Жыл бұрын

@0:31 so with 60W power 1070nm wavelength doesnt interact with organic material? i have heard bad stories in laser safety classes, could you please explain a bit more? Thanks.

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

There are obviously tons of exceptions like color, density, temperature, but in general - organic materials have a very poor absorption rate at this wavelength. That said this short IR is very dangerous to your eyesight so you should always wear safety glasses when working around these machines. Especially non-enclosed class 4 lasers. We get into it more on the channel but the long and short of it is it isn't going to burn the crap out of you like a UV or CO2 laser would if you catch your hand between the beam and the object.

@masterix4021 Жыл бұрын

Can't you also color titanium with the same techinque as steel? Has far as I have seen, the titanium oxide layer changes color depending on heat as well.

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

Yes that's true, we haven't experimented with it too much so I figured I'd keep it simple here as it acts more as an intro to lasers but you're absolutely right.

@jimvanderlinde Жыл бұрын

Laser everything is the best place to learn about this kinda laser

@ellislaserengraving Жыл бұрын

That is so awesome. I can't wait to learn so much more to get my business going. I have found the right place to learn everything about galvo lasers.

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing you over at LE :D

@nannerpuss9430 Жыл бұрын

No waaaaay Alex? Didnt expect to see you on Wired!

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

It's been a wild ride dude haha.

@SinkLikeStone Жыл бұрын

I would love to hear more about how iron can turn blueish or red/brown/blackish depends on the oxygen level react to the laser. ;)

@ash.ab.5575 Жыл бұрын

great info

@mbkballer1 Жыл бұрын

Lazers are so cool!

@FarceeTheFire Жыл бұрын

There's actually *many* aluminum alloys, aluminum may be an element, but you'd be incredibly hard pressed to find yourself using raw aluminum.

@FiddleSticks800 Жыл бұрын

Great video.

@regalblack1503 Жыл бұрын

Technology has come very far

@LanceLarsen Жыл бұрын

What brand of laser was that? Can it cut metal as well as engrave it? Love the video - super well done!

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

This was the 60w M7 by SFX, amazing machine, just wrapped the review of it on our channel :)

@elysiaxox Жыл бұрын

Great video 😮😊

@mac23806 Жыл бұрын

That is revolutionary technology

@justayoutuber1906 Жыл бұрын

or evolutionary

@nesthi Жыл бұрын

I'll say it. The yellow sparks are cool looking!🙌

@justayoutuber1906 Жыл бұрын

that's racist, man

@thoobonator Жыл бұрын

Good informative video. It would have been nice with an explanation to why the colour actually appears. I assume it is because steel has a colour change pattern that it will go through when it reaches different temperatures.

@zaprodk Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@x9x9x9x9x9 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea you could do color that's wild

@fralinsandfriends Жыл бұрын

That's awesome. It looks like a lot of fun. 😁😁👋👋💖💖

@yoyofargo Жыл бұрын

my jeans have laser engraved fold marks lmao

@rayrous8229 Жыл бұрын

Way cool! Can you do one on extreme ultraviolet lasers?

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

We have a ton of UV lasers over at LE :P

@henrychan720 Жыл бұрын

@@LaserEverything I think he meant those used in ASML's EUV photolithography machines used to make 3nm chips.

@zaprodk Жыл бұрын

@@henrychan720 yeah that's not usable as the energy level on those is very low and won't ablate or really heat anything.

@saadisave Жыл бұрын

@@henrychan720 Those are only good for etching nanoscale transistors on silicon

@AfrozAlam-gd1vp Жыл бұрын

3:13 is the metal moving because of laser hitting or because lase is making the metal hot?

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

The metal is getting hot and warping! :P

@kauanmossonzaianz3552 Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@SwissTanuki Жыл бұрын

So Mr. Bond wasn't going to die and Goldfinger just made that up? So evil...

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

I think Goldfinger was using a visible light laser in the megawatt range so Bond was definitely in quite a bit of trouble. All comes down to wavelength and wattage!

@SuperSlimshady1 6 ай бұрын

OMG IM SO MIND BLOWN!!! I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA BE SOMETHING SCIENTIFIC BUT NEVER ANYTHING LIKE THIS!!! LIKE U SAY AT THE END IT FEELS LIKE MAGIC!

@LeeDeez Жыл бұрын

I have one of them CNC plasma cutters at my job and they’re so much fun to use

@justayoutuber1906 Жыл бұрын

those

@temmerson Жыл бұрын

The mirrors move as fast as 10,000 milli meters per second! No wait, the mirrors move as fast as 10,000,000,000 nano meters per second! (Also known as 10m per second, but doesn’t sound as good)

@danielhertz7266 3 ай бұрын

How thin and deep can the laser etch without added air flow or material removal? Let's say i DO WANT to cut a certain even depth into the material.

@Engravcut 11 ай бұрын

Can the coloring be done with any fiber marker? If So please send the file so I can show my colleges

@Amonimus Жыл бұрын

Still, why doesn't it hurt organic material and why iron gives variying color?

@Gkolbas Жыл бұрын

Bent plates - priceless

@AmericanArgonaut Жыл бұрын

I think I found a new business…

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

Definitely a fun one to be a part of :D

@OfficialSamuelC Жыл бұрын

Always weird seeing the word ablation, as someone with cardiac issues whos has cardiac ablation, meaning I had a procedure where went through my femoral artery in my leg (inside the artery) all the way up to the inside of my heart chambers and ablated lots of parts of my heart (burning/scarring parts of my heart muscle to try alter or permanent damage certain electrical pathways across the heart). My cardiac problem means my resting heart rate 24/7 is tachycardic. Averaging 150bpm up to 250bpm. Day and night, awake or asleep. Nothing works to slow it, no medication, no Adenosine. Not even shocking my heart over and over fixes it (and this hurts, they do it whilst you’re awake with a little bit of sedation!).

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

Wish you well friend, sorry to hear your story - please take care.

@BarrierSecurity 7 ай бұрын

Ears with eyelets: No thanks!

@drewlop Жыл бұрын

This is cool but I'm disappointed they didn't explain how the color is created. "Steel is ferrous," but iron is not an inherently colorful material. I'm sure it's some kind of thin film interference effect, but the fact that they didn't mention that and just said "it's ferrous!" as if that would be enlightening is kinda lame. Better to just be like "how the color works is out of scope for this video."

@SevenDeMagnus Жыл бұрын

Cool

@aditiverma7895 3 ай бұрын

Can I use this video of yours for educational purpose

@laseranddiy-cq5jf Жыл бұрын

wow, loved it. thanks for making this video. My XTOOL D1 Pro is way slower haha!

@zrothesensei6981 Жыл бұрын

Gavin and Dan would have done a better job. The angles for the Slow Mo shots are horrible and 180 FPS is not fast enough. Great concept tho

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

Feel free to give them our contact info lol

@robertrichardapril Жыл бұрын

Video is fine, but if you mention slow motion, I'd suggest getting appreciable slow motion footage if possible. I'm pretty sure everyone would have thoroughly enjoyed something better than 120-180 fps. Anyways, have a nice day!

@anuuuujgggb Жыл бұрын

Wow!!

@divingquokka Жыл бұрын

0:28 Isn't that a plasma cutter?

@Yagyaansh 6 ай бұрын

Where can i buy this machine?

@RockyLai-ch8mz Ай бұрын

Hello dear are you looking for a laser machine?

@ArielLothlorien 10 күн бұрын

Where is the slowmo? This was a really interesting idea but didn't play out well

@Phil-D83 Жыл бұрын

You can buy low power ones that run on 3d printers. They are rather dangerous as they can blind you without proper eye protection. The smoke is aweful.

@janetf23 Жыл бұрын

It's probably a good thing that I'm not rich; I would totally impulse buy one of these and not have a clue how to use it, even after Alex has explained it to me. Better I should just watch, so thanks for this! 👍✌

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

If you ever change your mind lol we'll be around! They're super fun!

@sgct89 Жыл бұрын

You guys should reach out to the channel Styropyro 😅

@AlecInstant Жыл бұрын

Wait then what is anodized aluminum? That comes in tons of colors. Time for another KZfaq search 😂 I wonder how long I’ll be up tonight

@AlecInstant Жыл бұрын

Ah ok, we just gotta grow an oxide layer and then and a dye and lock it in or somthin. But I think I get it enough. It’s more like a rust then a burn

@sgct89 Жыл бұрын

No one knows lasers like Styropyro

@amandeep4392 Жыл бұрын

Laser bheem ale question da answer A option aoo g

@tombirney7276 Жыл бұрын

Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization? UR opinion for improving a pt's chance of not having another cardio/vascular event.

@abrahamwondafrash7549 Жыл бұрын

pure scifi....

@malleusmaleficarum6004 Жыл бұрын

They use lasers to print expiration dates on food containers, dont they?

@nickwheeler1652 Жыл бұрын

Didn't really focus on slow motion

@XxXenosxX Жыл бұрын

I don’t need a new expensive hobby, I don’t need a new expensive hobby, I don’t… 🙉🙉🙈

@LaserEverything Жыл бұрын

You do!

@anasyusuf1607 Жыл бұрын

🏇💨💨💨💨🔥🔥🔥

@1.4142 Жыл бұрын

10,000 mm/s= 10 m/s

@rayawira Жыл бұрын

Very disappointed with the video. Thought they're gonna use super high frame rate camera in order to record how the laser creates those images in super slow motion.

@mahuob Жыл бұрын

dese no one say first anymore i'm First BTW

@OldFChannel Жыл бұрын

Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen

@yumicintaku Жыл бұрын

Thank You!

@qorthex Жыл бұрын

Thanks? But you're everywhere

@RotaryMarx Жыл бұрын

Not christian but thank you. I hope i will have a better engineering journey

@sarahwilson7825 Жыл бұрын

I needed this, thank you so much. Be blessed💞

@khalilahd. Жыл бұрын

Thanks ❤

@Hobypyrocom Жыл бұрын

so many things said in the video are so wrong...

@dongchen7940 Жыл бұрын

I think you need to figure out all those terminology like fiber-laser, galvo, etc... before making such a type of video, so that it won't be full of misconception in your video.