I bought this from China and I got it yesterday I have been trying for two days to just connect it to light burn and use it it doesn’t work in any way with Ethernet or usb cable or usb stick it just doesn’t say read or show any signs of connecting and the usb stick when I plug it in it says failure or something I genuinely need help
Like most of you, my first 6 months with a K40 were basically expensive trial and error. The manual was useless, YouTube settings never matched my tube's actual output, and I burned through more acrylic doing test matrices than actual projects.
The worst part? Every time I replaced my tube or changed my lens, I was basically starting from scratch.
So over the past year I've been building a tool that aggregates community laser parameters and uses AI to recommend starting points for YOUR specific machine configuration. You tell it your laser type, wattage, lens, and material -- it gives you speed/power/passes as a starting point based on what's worked for similar setups.
What makes it different from a spreadsheet:
It's completely free, no account required, no paywall: https://cutlog-two.vercel.app
Works with CO2, fiber, diode, UV -- whatever you're running.
I'd genuinely love feedback from this community because you all run the widest variety of weird and wonderful machines. The edge cases (modded K40s, custom beds, aftermarket tubes) are exactly where this thing needs to get smarter.
What materials/setups would you want to test first? And is there anything about your workflow I should think about that I might be missing?