We have been a partner with Vectric on development of the new laser module for a couple of years now and we are happy to say they have released the new version. This new module will allow several new features in Vectric products to make it more compatible with our laser upgrade kits. In the […]
These are definitely trying times that we are navigating right now. As of this post, our area is in a “stay at home” order for all non-essential businesses. However, we are currently are getting orders for medical equipment manufacturers to aid in the processing of non-woven fabric (polypropylene) for filtration pads in N95 respirators. Because […]
Learn About Laserable Materials We get a lot of questions on what materials you can cut and engrave with a laser. Mostly, our lasers work great with engraving on wood, but there are also a lot of materials that are great with our lasers. There are also plenty of materials that you should never process […]
Hodor Door Stop Project We here at J Tech Photonics are into Game of Thrones, like a couple of other people out there. To celebrate the last episode, we have made some small door stops with HODOR engraved on them. We thought they would make some good presents for our friends who we watch every […]
Our Advice When Setting Up Mach4 with ESS and J Tech Lasers We have been getting requests to make a page on how to set up Mach4 for J Tech Lasers, as it is a bit confusing on the website on how to get the laser set up. So, we have answered the call and […]
We presented this project at the 2018 Vectric User group a few months ago and want to share how to complete a chess board using your router and your J Tech laser. We have all the files and instructions here in this post to be able to make this project using your V Carve or […]
Glass Etching with J Tech Laser A customer of ours, Ryan Cook of Maplehurst Ave LLC (maplehurstave.com), has done a great post awhile back on the Inventables forum on how to etch glass with a J Tech laser. We have gotten a lot of questions about this, so we asked Ryan if we could share […]
Now that you have put your machine and laser together, there are a lot of options for how to run it. It will depend on what software you might already have and if you want to purchase any new software or not. We HIGHLY Recommend getting the Lightburn software package as it will run the entire process and […]
Aztec Calendar Made Using VCarve Pro and a J Tech Laser We presented this project in the Vectric User group last October, and we thought we would share it with everyone here on how to do a “hybrid” project with V Carve and the J Tech laser using our post processor. It is a really […]
We have been doing upgrade kits for GRBL machines like the X Carve and Shapeoko 2 and Shapeoko 3 machines for years now. Besides these machines, there are tons more that use GRBL for the base firmware to run the machine. One of the coolest things you can do with these machines is picture engraving. […]
