{"id":750,"date":"2024-02-12T04:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2024-02-16T04:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:34:50","slug":"building-my-first-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/12\/building-my-first-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"Building my first laser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well really it is not my first laser, I built one that would connect to the head of my 3D printer and did some testing and engraving.&nbsp; It was a fun and learning experience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one is going to be much better!&nbsp; My last one was only 3 wats, this one is 22 watts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it can engrave, cut and works with many materials!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the old days the only thing I could really engrave to was paper grocery bags, they seemed to work best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am looking forward to making some projects and engraving everything I can.&nbsp; This all started back before Christmas because we got the boys a nice bottle of Whiskey and the lady at the store engraved it \u2013 right on the glass!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting it all together was not bad, took about an hour and a half \u2013 then I was ready for some testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictures to follow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well really it is not my first laser, I built one that would connect to the head of my 3D printer and did some testing and engraving.&nbsp; It was a fun and learning experience! This one is going to be much better!&nbsp; My last one was only 3 wats, this one is 22 watts. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}