Cheap China Laser Cutters For Cardboard, Plywood for DIY Works

Definitely you have noticed that suddenly humans across the whole earth are cutting, engraving cardboard, plywood to build things like Google Cardboard VR, IBM Cardboard Robot aka TJBot. Here is a guide on cheap China laser cutters for cutting cardboard, plywood for DIY works explaining cardboards, plywood, cutter & cheap CNC. DIY micro 3 axis CNC milling machine kit costs exactly double of cheap China laser cutter. Total budget is within $700. China is a beautiful country. CNC are locally assembled with full support (at least in India), they can engrave wood, bamboo, paper, plastics, leather, rubber, horn etc can cut thin paper, light wood, felt, fabric etc. They are available in the US and UK too, but costs very high in America. There are many free software for creating things with laser cutter, like we can create box :

Cheap China Laser Cutters For Cardboard, Plywood for DIY Works

Cheap China Laser Cutters are not for really serious works. Local made has some advantages like support by the builder, specially if the builder is running business for 2 decades or more they are reliable. However, to get “international quality”, you must buy industrial small Laser Cutter (or CNC milling machine) from known reputed manufacturers of industrial supply. Good quality can cost over $6000 per unit but really a good investment if such unit can cut thin metal, normal thickness of plywoods, cardboards etc. They are actually replacements or aid to normal, conventional tools to cut, saw for DIY things. They are towards upgrade from our guides like to cutting metal sheets.

We actually do not buy “Cheap China” desktop inkjet printers. They cost recurrently higher but it is unusual for such an inkjet to die. We must tell you that the laser used in these machines are quite powerful to cut human eyes – they are not safe like laser printer or laser mouse.

Conclusion on Cheap China Laser Cutters For Cardboard, Plywood

The common design of Cheap China Laser Cutters For Cardboard is this :

That open design is dangerously risky, things are not assembled, possibly software does not support MacOS X, GNU/Linux. This thing is inside of “doll’s house” :

Now about cardboards. You must have noticed that Google Cardboard have a great look of the edges. There are many types of cardboards but in my opinion thin plywood is superior for even slightly serious works. For many ideas, latest works, you should look at sites like :

At this moment, possibly it is better to wait and use local laser cutting service rather than to rush to buy. Matter is exactly like computer scan was once in the year 2000.