DIY Custom Inserts using EVA Foam and Lasers! 

A cheap cabinet, some Eva foam and a laser One of those things is not like the others

that’s an excellent drawer organizer with EVA foam! 👌😎

Nice! That's definitely more organized than before!

EVA foam + Laser = Massive inspiration. Thanks Angus, you're a champ!

That's really cool. I'd definitely be all over that idea if I had a laser cutter. Don't think we missed that Frozen 2 Anna lunchbox in the back of that drawer... 😄❄️

This is one thing I'm most excited to try with my new laser! Thanks for the tips and inspo. Would 'engraving' work at all on EVA, or low power score lines? Or too melty??

Quick tip for scanning complex profiles into cad: Just put your items on a flatbed scanner and scan at a high quality. Convert the resulting file to png and then insert that into fusion as a canvas. Since the scan will be the size of a piece of paper just set the dimensions of the canvas to 8.5 x 11 inches (or whatever width and length a4 paper is) and everything will be perfectly to scale. No need to include a ruler.

Thanks for this Angus! It is brilliant! No more hand cutting slots for microphones and all my audio/ video parts. Still working out what laser cutter to get, but this is in my future!

my suggestion would be to have an area for charging batteries with two sides: keep flat batteries in one, and charged batteries in the other. That way you always know which are ready to go.

Maybe instead of scanning something with a ruler, you could just trace it on graph paper where the squares are of a known size.

for anyone trying to do this for complex shapes: theres a software called Took Kaiser, you can take photos of your tools and it will automatically process and nest their outlines. I havent used it but it seems pretty cool

"DIY" *uses a 4000$ laser cutter* Yeah, sure

If this foam contains PVC you should not be cutting it on a laser.. the gas is highly corrosive and dangerous. ☠️

A solution for the stubby lenses: You adhere a fabric ribbon to the lower layer of foam, place the lens on top of the ribbon, with the ribbon sticking out the side. When you need it, pull up on the ribbon and the lens comes up with it.

Disturbingly short shorts 😂

Thank you so much for this idea, just checked if the laser in our makerspace can cut this.. and it can :D Custom foam inserts incoming :)

Nice video. Another nudge toward me deciding on buying a laser. Instead of tracing and scanning something like a the spanner, I take a picture with my phone with a ruler alongside, or on a cutting mat with a scale printed on it, and then upload the pic. Same result, cuts some steps 🙂.

Unfortunately, every time I've tested the cheap EVA foam floor mats, they always fail the copper+chlorine burn test. No PVC in my laser, thanks. Maybe some day I'll find a cheap clean source.

I love ❤️ this idea 💡

I like your idea with the paper sketch and scanner, but i usually just put the object on the scanner with a ruler on 2 axis. You'll sometimes find on flatbed's that the x and y scale are different

Now, all you have to do to keep track of your freshly charged batteries vs. those that are (partially) discharged is to put them with, for example, battery contacts facing up for those that are (partially) discharged, and battery contacts facing down for those that are fully charged, but maybe you already have your way to organize this.

Instead of tons of batteries for your studio cameras, grab a power supply for your camera instead! Then it just runs off the outlet and you never have to worry about it running out of battery mid-shoot.

Nice !!👍 congrats ! I like your sewing Machine !! 👀 greetings from Mexico !

Awesome! I only have one 3D printer and all of my equipment/gear is insanely cluttered....

MM: cheap EVA foam and a $2,000 laser engraver! anyone can do it

How powerful does the laser need to be in order to cut this kind of foam? I'm kinda starting to want a cheap laser cutter, but is it going to be a good investment or should I spend a bit more money on something more professional?

Loose cloth, and short haircut. Hot, down under, huh? I feel a bout of thermal envy! LOL Since I'm at it, neat idea.

Nice jimjams

I love how you have cash for all those printers and lasers and gadgets, but no money for a comb. ...HA HA HA just having you on...

I never thought of using a ruler when scanning, great idea! I just measured the object afterwards and scaled it to that.

Great video! I love this idea and I'm gonna have to make some of these now!!

Kmart(AU) do a pack of 4 in black I think for $10 , flip them over and your good. They also do a big black yoga mat that's 12mm thick same idea big bigger so you don't have to have joins in wide toolbox inserts. I was looking to buy kaizen foam locally but never thought of just using this stuff thanks for the tip!

I see you've added an Anna from Frozen tin, for added organization! Lol

I wish I had any of those things.... I can go out to my garage and build any furniture I can dream of, or 3D print incredible things, but lasers... well. I have a neat laser pointer, but I don't think that's of much use. Someday I'll have one, though! :)

Go on pop ya collar! Nice m8. Great video.

One of my many "backburner projects" is making Open Source "Pelican Cases". This solves the foam aspect !

Some alternatives to buying a $6,000 laser cutter. Go to your local maker space, many of them have laser cutters. Watch Bill from punished props on RU-vid, you can cut EVA foam with a craft knife and get great results! A sword of exact zero is way cheaper too! With scanning and converting to vector lines I have had great success using Vellum aka tracing paper. It’s gives me better results than white paper.

I find it satisfying when each item drops into place perfectly! Do you think for your next video you could review the labists x1 mini 3d printer Angus? It's the cheapest printer on the market.

I tried to cut similar EVA tiles with a 550mw 450nm laser on a 3018 CNC. This laser will cut paper & cardstock, and will burn wood. Unsurprisingly, it will not cut the foam. Somewhat surprisingly to me, at 100% power and 1mm/min it doesn't even *mark* them. Shrug.

Hey @Maker's Muse You can get away with a simple 5000mw laser engraver cutter, I even use a 2500mw to cut EVA foam for cosplay purposes. Laser has a 50 x 60cm cutting area, and only cost me £150 ish If people wanna get involved in this, a big ol' co2 laser isn't necessary.

what's in the frozen 2 lunch box Angus? WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!

and this is why i want to get a lazer......sooo sick and you could really make good money just doing that, cutting foam inserts for companies

Very good

5:19 sus

What about urethane foam? Old mattress foam, that is, like they use in a lot of professional foam inserts? How laserable is it?

Between Maker's Muse and i did a thing I'm convinced that Australians think shoes are a myth

What laser are you using, cuts look clean?

I do eva foam inserts with spare power tool cases. I just need to dremel out the plastic inside.

Hey this is unrelated to the video but would you reccomend the cr 10 v2 for a beginner

love how natural you show yourself. with those shorts and your hair. :p relatable. keep up the great content you provide. thumbs up! edit: empower your creativity through technology. also do know, YOU MATTER! :p

Lightburn is a wonderful laser utility with powerful design functions. I use a 6mp camera, mounted above my 1300/900 bed, for placement AND it can trace shapes on the bed into Lightburn😎

How much power do you need to cut through one of these? I have a 5w, 'engraver' that I have been using to cut black PVC type boards. Yes it takes like 4 passes but it does work. Wondering if I could do it on this foam as well.

Fusion 360 is the best, it's my favorite 3D design program by far.

Great video. Another reason to get a laser cutter. Mahalo for sharing! : ) 🐒

Super neat! Been binging the channel, love it Angus

Dang. Now I want a laser cutter... but that hair....haha

I've been doing things like this for years... by hand. And then getting extra / new gear and then cut other places out, again and again so after one or two years there is almost no foam left ;-)

I'm starting to think that no one has ever actually put those floor mats on their floors and they just exist for everyone to turn into diy projects.

Have you gain weight?

7:07 Or if the lens is so stubby, just put one of the circles, you did cut out, under it and make the foam holding it only one layer deep.

Really cool! If you dont have any other ideas, th middle drawer could be for uncharged equipment and the upper drawer for charged and ready to go equipment, or the other way around.

Hmm... can it work with that packing foam Angus was complaining about in a prior video?

"here's a DIY, but first you will need an equipment that is a lot more expensive than just having other people do it for you."

I'm super stoked to get into laser cutting this foam stuff, I can see a million uses! What about laying the tools directly onto a flatbed scanner, rather than tracing the tool on paper?

Great idear with the cutter Im no fan of lasercutteres, but it seams as a great application! Thanks for sharing :-)

For the drawer on the bottom, you could put some holes in the back, and wire the battery charging station into it

When are you going to review Formlab's Form 3

I've been using Void Star labs Gridfinity, and it's good BUT my big brother just gave me his xtool (yep, 48 years old, still get big brothers toys) and I know what I'm doing all weekend now :)

We have GOT to get Angus over 1M subs!

Very casual video

Simple, super easy solution saving money using floor mats. You just need a $5200.00 laser printer. I don't know if these RU-vid guys realize that the average person isn't getting free stuff from manufacturers and probably can't afford the equipment. Maybe it's just me.

Lead with courage.

Where do you get the smooth eva mats from? All the ones I can see on ebay have patterns on them. Or are you putting them pattern down? Edit: Great video, nice idea..

Hey so I don't have a laser cutter... but I do have a CNC machine (that I have never used because I was given it for free and have no suitable space for its use). Might I be able to do this on the CNC machine or would it simply rip EVA?

I'll either get a resin printer or a laser cutter this year. Probably a laser cutter because of stuff like this.

Telling charged batteries from discharged? K.I.S.S. In the wayback when I was buying Canon gear the batteries used to come with protective caps that covered the battery terminals and had a viewport hole towards one side: clip the cap on one way and a green dot was visible to indicate that it was charged, the other way and it was red. I'm surprised the Lumix batteries didn't come with something similar.

Maybe this $1200 CO2 laser could pay for its own upgrade! To think I have 6 of those pads under the table the laser is sitting on, that were destined for the trash bin.

Interesting "just woke up and still in my jammies" look. Lol, but great video!

disorganization and constantly looking for shit.. the story of my life! 3d printing and cnc has given me new creative ways to get organized... as well as a heap of more shit to organize! OI!

great idea, just about to try design something that can be applied to my suitcase

flip the top drawer foam around so the box is at the front, quick sollution at least. i hate drawers that dont open all the way. I try to upgrade all my furniture to have full extension runners so its possibly to get things out of the back.

Alternatively, "How I made professional looking foam inserts, using the same tools as a professional".

Where did you get the foam without texture. Looked at amazon but could only find squares with a raised patterns. I have a 25 watt co2 laser bed and in the past the foam came out sticky so looking to try these EVA floor pads.

Why draw around your socket wrench parts and then scan with a ruler, wouldn't it be much easier to just arrange all the sockets on the scanner and then scan their actual profiles? I've done that with polyhedral dice when I was trying to get textures for 3d models.

Tracing the outline with a pen is not the best way and seems tedious.. Just place the tools on the foam you're going to use or a surface that is the same size as the foam. Take a photo from above. Open the photo in illustrator or another similar software (there are probably 100 free platforms that will do the same). Adjust the image to show the tools/items in a single colour and then turn the tools/items into vectors and use the vector outlines for your cutting.

Last item I needed to model a cutout for I just scanned it directly. No paper needed.

One hack I so for my batteries is i have a 3d printed holder for 3 camera batteries and i put dead batteries face down and good batteries face up so its easy to recognize which is which.

May I ask what part of Australia you're from? I would not have placed your accent as Australian.

'... And a laser cutter.' oh. Ya! I have a few of those lying around here somewhere...

Nice part is if you don’t have the laser just print out the design and cut it with a sharp razor knife as cosplayers have been for a while now.

But as you know... out dated due purchases of new equipment almost immediately

Great idea! Check Alexandre Chappel's 3d printed drawer organizing boxes for inspiration.

What's a good affordable laser cutter with a decent capacity?

What is rough required laser power to cut 60 mm of a such EVA foam?

Those shorts must be an Australian thing

Are you able to choose how deep you want to cut, when working with thicker foam?

Laser cutter used but no link or description of the foam used. I mean seriously.

My buddy in military was accounting how miserable all the foam cutting he did by hand to organize drawers for months, when I told him he could have used a laser.

Do you know if this will work with a diode laser cutter?

What's the thinest wall the Form 2 can print without the print failing.