Adding A Laser Cutter to My CNC

I have been installing a laser cutter on the CNC machine. The laser cutter was sent to by Avid CNC. It's been a slow process over the last few months. The first step was installing the laser physically to the z-axis of the CNC machine. This went fairly straightforward as it was just following instructions and putting in screws. The other bigger project with this was updating my CNC control box. This involved swapping out several controller cards in the box as I have a very old control box from the first version of this CNC machine from Avid CNC back when it was CNC Router Parts. The instructions were in two parts and somewhat overlapping making it complicated to follow. I did get very good help from Avid CNC's support staff so in the end it works just fine. I've been using it so far to cut out flattened messages that I can fold back into a three-dimensional form. I've also played around with engraving photographs into wood. I made a picture of our cat that the rest of the family really likes.

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0:00 (introduction)
1:14 (dust collection)
1:34 (instasalling)
4:04 (control box)
9:09 (dust collection)
11:19 (cutting)