Laser cutters are getting faster, more powerful and a bit more dangerous for the uninitiated. The Wizmaker L1 36 Watt laser engraver and cutter is a prime example of a powerful machine that could use a bit more instruction and a few more features.
Wizmaker does not offer software of its own to operate the laser, so your best bet is LightBurn, a premium third party application that’s $60 to download. The PDF setting guide that Wizmaker made available on its website, at least at the time of our testing, appears to be cribbed from Atomstack, another laser manufacturer. Though it offered a starting point, I found the setting to be inadequate, causing me to scorch most of the samples that came with the laser. In the end I had to create my own test burns and experiment a lot to find proper settings.
This is not to say that the product is faulty – it’s an excellent, high-powered laser…
