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The Atomstack X7 Pro

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First post, background I live in the Netherlands, and I like to make things. I like to tinker with Arduinos/ESP32s and other electronics, and ever since I started doing that I was looking for ways to make nice enclosures for those projects. I usually resorted to the jigsaw, but I was almost never happy with how that turned out. I had been eyeing CO2 laser cutters for years, but for hobby purposes I simply couldn't justify the expense. Approximately early 2020 the first generations of diode lasers appeared on the market. Late 2020 I bought a TwoTrees 4.5W diode laser cutter . It wasn't very expensive, and I honestly wasn't very hopeful that it would be very useful. Its weak laser could barely cut through light 3mm plywood, and the mechanism wasn't very accurate. Still, I made some fun projects with it, and it showed me what was possible. Fast forward to early June 2020, I bought an Atomstack X7 Pro , which has a 10W laser. I included the optional air assist unit. I brief