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-## Safety Considerations
-The laser machines are a little different from most machines found in TheLab. There are no obvious sharp spinning blades that catch ones eye as being dangerous. The danger from the lasers is not so much the motors running as it is the silent high intensity, mostly invisible laser light. If it can cut/engrave solid material it will do major harm to human flesh.
-Be sure to read this safety discussion before burning your first project.
-* [[#A Word About Safety| A Bit About Safety First]]
+## Software
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+Lightburn is used to drive all lasers at TheLab, with the exception of the Glowforge which uses proprietary software.
-## The driving software
-The various laser machines may use different software to actually drive the machine mechanism. Some may use a locally installable 3rd party product, others a proprietary cloud driven product. To date we have:
-### Lightburn
-Lightburn is used to drive the Trogdor (CO2) and Shockwave (OmTech Galvo diode) lasers
 * **[[lightburn_basic_instructions|Lightburn Basics in TheLab, in progress]]**
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-There is a Glowforge proprietary cloud product that drives the Glowforge laser
+## The Machines
- ??? is used to drive the Calcifer (XTool diode laser)
+### Trogdor 100 Watt CO2
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-## The machines
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-### Trogdor 100 Watt CO2
 Discord channel: trogdor
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+### Omtech LYF-30 Galvo Fiber
-### Omtech LYF-30 Galvo Fiber
 Discord channel: shockwave
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+### Glowforge 40 Watt CO2
-### Glowforge 40 Watt CO2
 Discord Channel:   TBD
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 ### Calcifer - Xtool D1 Pro Laser
 Discord Channel: calcifer
 Material to be added
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 ## A Word About Safety