A cheap cabinet, some Eva foam and a laser One of those things is not like the others

That's really cool. I'd definitely be all over that idea if I had a laser cutter. Don't think we missed that Frozen 2 Anna lunchbox in the back of that drawer... 😄❄️

my suggestion would be to have an area for charging batteries with two sides: keep flat batteries in one, and charged batteries in the other. That way you always know which are ready to go.

that’s an excellent drawer organizer with EVA foam! 👌😎

A solution for the stubby lenses: You adhere a fabric ribbon to the lower layer of foam, place the lens on top of the ribbon, with the ribbon sticking out the side. When you need it, pull up on the ribbon and the lens comes up with it.

I never thought of using a ruler when scanning, great idea! I just measured the object afterwards and scaled it to that.

Nice! That's definitely more organized than before!

7:07 Or if the lens is so stubby, just put one of the circles, you did cut out, under it and make the foam holding it only one layer deep.

One of my many "backburner projects" is making Open Source "Pelican Cases". This solves the foam aspect !

We have GOT to get Angus over 1M subs!

EVA foam + Laser = Massive inspiration. Thanks Angus, you're a champ!

I like your idea with the paper sketch and scanner, but i usually just put the object on the scanner with a ruler on 2 axis. You'll sometimes find on flatbed's that the x and y scale are different

I did this for my lab **** A Simple way is to (1)lay it all out next to a yardstick. (2) Take a picture at a 8 to 12 ft distance (3) Create a sketch that is overlayed on the sketch. This gives you a rough layout you can measure afterwards for tighter fits.

Maybe instead of scanning something with a ruler, you could just trace it on graph paper where the squares are of a known size.

For people too lazy to search and do custom stuff: Alex drawers from ikea. Foam drawer liners from a hardware store like home depot (just to keep things from sliding around) then either ikea or if you have one, a Daiso plastic boxes and organization. I have three Alex drawers, a collection of earbuds/IEMs, cameras and gear, cables are in narrow boxes stacked sideways, with labels on the side (IE: Micro USB, USB C, 3.5mm, etc) and this works well for me. I thought about doing something like this, but I'm just too indecisive. The stuff I prioritize changes too often, and I buy a new thing, maybe give away the old one. So custom inserts were going to become obsolete far too quickly for me. I'm still very jealous of this wonderful setup though.

This is one thing I'm most excited to try with my new laser! Thanks for the tips and inspo. Would 'engraving' work at all on EVA, or low power score lines? Or too melty??

Quick tip for scanning complex profiles into cad: Just put your items on a flatbed scanner and scan at a high quality. Convert the resulting file to png and then insert that into fusion as a canvas. Since the scan will be the size of a piece of paper just set the dimensions of the canvas to 8.5 x 11 inches (or whatever width and length a4 paper is) and everything will be perfectly to scale. No need to include a ruler.

Some alternatives to buying a $6,000 laser cutter. Go to your local maker space, many of them have laser cutters. Watch Bill from punished props on KZfaq, you can cut EVA foam with a craft knife and get great results! A sword of exact zero is way cheaper too! With scanning and converting to vector lines I have had great success using Vellum aka tracing paper. It’s gives me better results than white paper.

Fusion 360 is the best, it's my favorite 3D design program by far.

Nice way to help keep things organized. You can always store uncharged batteries by the charger. If you keep uncharged rechargables in the drawer then you can put them with connections up or down to indicate charged or not charged.

Between Maker's Muse and i did a thing I'm convinced that Australians think shoes are a myth

Lightburn is a wonderful laser utility with powerful design functions. I use a 6mp camera, mounted above my 1300/900 bed, for placement AND it can trace shapes on the bed into Lightburn😎

You can use the "Canvas" feature in Fusion to lay out your gear on the EVA sheet, then take a top down(straight down with no parallax) picture. You can then trace your sketch right around all of the objects on the Canvas in Fusion. For basic circles/squares and rectangles, it's probably not too efficient, but for organic/odd shapes, this works really well. Actually used this method to use a picture off the web to create a dxf for some T-stak foam inserts.

love how natural you show yourself. with those shorts and your hair. :p relatable. keep up the great content you provide. thumbs up! edit: empower your creativity through technology. also do know, YOU MATTER! :p

I see you've added an Anna from Frozen tin, for added organization! Lol

Kmart(AU) do a pack of 4 in black I think for $10 , flip them over and your good. They also do a big black yoga mat that's 12mm thick same idea big bigger so you don't have to have joins in wide toolbox inserts. I was looking to buy kaizen foam locally but never thought of just using this stuff thanks for the tip!

5S of the workspace! Yeah! :)

Tip: Put the empty batteries upside down, when you put them away. I wrote on my covers and boxes full and empty. Makes it so much faster. Another quick workaround for the "organic forms" is to take a picture with a ruler next to it. It is best to zoom in a bit to get a flatter image.

I love that you have a frozen storage tin.

For the drawer on the bottom, you could put some holes in the back, and wire the battery charging station into it

Hey @Maker's Muse You can get away with a simple 5000mw laser engraver cutter, I even use a 2500mw to cut EVA foam for cosplay purposes. Laser has a 50 x 60cm cutting area, and only cost me £150 ish If people wanna get involved in this, a big ol' co2 laser isn't necessary.

I recognized your Australian electrical outlets to figure out your location. I really like their design. The North American ones are terrible, because it is easy to get a shock, unless you mount them with the ground side up. Your laser cut foam is really fantastic!!! Your valuable gear is extremely well protected.

With batteries, I simply have charged batteries facing up, flat batteries facing down. Once you get yourself used to do it for a while, you don't even think about it anymore. It makes things easier with power tools on work sites too, if everyone does it, you can know if a battery is flat without too walk over to it

I knew there was a second reason I wanted those interlocking puzzle floor mats!

One trick I do with my batteries to tell switch is charged and not charged is make one side a "charged" side (I use positive) and the other side is the "flat" side on the battery. So with your camera batteries in the draw, the connector side I would designate if facing up the battery is charged, if the non connection side is facing up the battery is flat. I do this with cases as well when transporting the batteries, connectors or positive side oriented to a certain position, say right side of the case (depending on type of case) battery charged. it oriented to the opposite side means the battery flat. Takes a little bit to get into the habit but once it has formed you'll be right.

Very casual video

I wish I had any of those things.... I can go out to my garage and build any furniture I can dream of, or 3D print incredible things, but lasers... well. I have a neat laser pointer, but I don't think that's of much use. Someday I'll have one, though! :)

Quick tip. when I am on set, what I've done is place a a sticker, mine are reflective stickers from the dollar store and when my battery is dead I place the sticker up and if the battery is charged I place the sticker down. That way i can see at a glance what's full and dead

for anyone trying to do this for complex shapes: theres a software called Took Kaiser, you can take photos of your tools and it will automatically process and nest their outlines. I havent used it but it seems pretty cool

Thanks for this Angus! It is brilliant! No more hand cutting slots for microphones and all my audio/ video parts. Still working out what laser cutter to get, but this is in my future!

Super neat! Been binging the channel, love it Angus

08:04 what a lovely cheeky smile.

Great video! I love this idea and I'm gonna have to make some of these now!!

Top tip ... flat lay everything you want in the orientation you want it take a photo top down. Import it and trace to a known size

Good to be among the first people to see this.

NICE!!! Now I can justify adding a laser to my MPCNC.

I've been doing things like this for years... by hand. And then getting extra / new gear and then cut other places out, again and again so after one or two years there is almost no foam left ;-)

Speaking of complex cutouts, I saw someone take a photo from directly overhead and bring it into fusion 360. He created the basic outline the took measurements on a few easy spots and it scaled everything else in the sketch.

Yesss your shirt is the same as my swimming shorts

Nice !!👍 congrats ! I like your sewing Machine !! 👀 greetings from Mexico !

I find it satisfying when each item drops into place perfectly! Do you think for your next video you could review the labists x1 mini 3d printer Angus? It's the cheapest printer on the market.

Unfortunately, every time I've tested the cheap EVA foam floor mats, they always fail the copper+chlorine burn test. No PVC in my laser, thanks. Maybe some day I'll find a cheap clean source.

I'm super stoked to get into laser cutting this foam stuff, I can see a million uses! What about laying the tools directly onto a flatbed scanner, rather than tracing the tool on paper?

In Fusion 360.. You could scan the image, Place it as canvas. Calibrate to the size you need, Draw sketch over it.

Really cool! If you dont have any other ideas, th middle drawer could be for uncharged equipment and the upper drawer for charged and ready to go equipment, or the other way around.

Very good

Great video! Something I never considered to do with my laser. Love to see more laser videos from you. Cheers from ADE!

I've been using Void Star labs Gridfinity, and it's good BUT my big brother just gave me his xtool (yep, 48 years old, still get big brothers toys) and I know what I'm doing all weekend now :)

Thank you so much for this idea, just checked if the laser in our makerspace can cut this.. and it can :D Custom foam inserts incoming :)

Now, all you have to do to keep track of your freshly charged batteries vs. those that are (partially) discharged is to put them with, for example, battery contacts facing up for those that are (partially) discharged, and battery contacts facing down for those that are fully charged, but maybe you already have your way to organize this.

flip the top drawer foam around so the box is at the front, quick sollution at least. i hate drawers that dont open all the way. I try to upgrade all my furniture to have full extension runners so its possibly to get things out of the back.

Definitely some money to be made cutting storage trays for Games Workshop figs, spent a fortune on those over the years

You could engrave labels near the slots as well if the load out was going to be static.

i use this technique for making inserts for toolboxes or powertools - but i switched from EVA foam to ridig XPS foam - it does the job and is _way_ cheaper for prototyping i usually use scap cardboard and just cut out shapes i want to test, because for powertools with more complicated shapes, it is not as straight forward :)

I love ❤️ this idea 💡

Thanks for reminding me to look into floor mats for my garage :D

great video and subject matter

I'm going to try this out with my tool chests!

Great video. Another reason to get a laser cutter. Mahalo for sharing! : ) 🐒

Telling charged batteries from discharged? K.I.S.S. In the wayback when I was buying Canon gear the batteries used to come with protective caps that covered the battery terminals and had a viewport hole towards one side: clip the cap on one way and a green dot was visible to indicate that it was charged, the other way and it was red. I'm surprised the Lumix batteries didn't come with something similar.

great idea, just about to try design something that can be applied to my suitcase

Instead of tons of batteries for your studio cameras, grab a power supply for your camera instead! Then it just runs off the outlet and you never have to worry about it running out of battery mid-shoot.

One hack I so for my batteries is i have a 3d printed holder for 3 camera batteries and i put dead batteries face down and good batteries face up so its easy to recognize which is which.

For the ones that were too short you could creates two G codes. One with all the holes like you have it now and another with all the holes except for maybe that one that was too short. Or even easier put back one of the circles from the scraps to boost it up.

Love it! Can’t wait to try it myself

Nice jimjams

Disturbingly short shorts 😂

How convenient!

Nice video. Another nudge toward me deciding on buying a laser. Instead of tracing and scanning something like a the spanner, I take a picture with my phone with a ruler alongside, or on a cutting mat with a scale printed on it, and then upload the pic. Same result, cuts some steps 🙂.

Lightburn is the easy way to draw vectors for laser cutters.

Great video as always! Just the inspiration I need right now to get my messy spaces organised. Also a good excuse to buy a laser cutter...

'... And a laser cutter.' oh. Ya! I have a few of those lying around here somewhere...

Nice job on the video. ArmourCore provides an easy option that you also might like to look at for your next draw.

Awesome tip, I have access to a laser cutter at work (I'm one of the operators) and am definitely going to do this!!!

I do eva foam inserts with spare power tool cases. I just need to dremel out the plastic inside.

Interesting "just woke up and still in my jammies" look. Lol, but great video!

"here's a DIY, but first you will need an equipment that is a lot more expensive than just having other people do it for you."

Great idear with the cutter Im no fan of lasercutteres, but it seams as a great application! Thanks for sharing :-)

nice work ,

Loose cloth, and short haircut. Hot, down under, huh? I feel a bout of thermal envy! LOL Since I'm at it, neat idea.

Go on pop ya collar! Nice m8. Great video.

3:22 Most scanners are capable to scan with depth. So why trace the tool on paper? Just put it directly on the scanner.

My buddy in military was accounting how miserable all the foam cutting he did by hand to organize drawers for months, when I told him he could have used a laser.

what's in the frozen 2 lunch box Angus? WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!

Nice part is if you don’t have the laser just print out the design and cut it with a sharp razor knife as cosplayers have been for a while now.

Hi, regarding the more complex Forms: we added a camera to our Laser and use Lightburn, helps positioning and does a great job for vectors from hand drawn lines. Maybe possible for your Laser as well?

Maybe this $1200 CO2 laser could pay for its own upgrade! To think I have 6 of those pads under the table the laser is sitting on, that were destined for the trash bin.

Make vertical inserts for the bottom drawer.

Dang. Now I want a laser cutter... but that hair....haha

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