The benefits of a camera in lightburn 

Thanks for the tour of your camera setup. I hadn’t seen a camera being used until your video. This will be my next purchase for my new laser setup. Again, thank you!! 😉

I have learned so much from your videos, excited to put it all to use. Definitely getting the camera, sounds like a game changer.

Thanks for this video. This really helps setting up my Logitech camera I have ordered.

For writing to the controller, I'll bet XTool has done something similar to what I found with my Sculpfun. Normally the grbl firmware is super generic, with everything set by writing the parameters after uploading the grbl code. But Sculpfun uses a slightly modified version that prevents writing to the onboard flash. So you can write and it will keep it until you cycle the power. Then it goes back to the factory defaults. I get why they did it to help keep people out of trouble, but it was super annoying. So I read the values from the controller in Lightburn, saved to a file, uploaded a clean copy of the generic grbl firmware, and used Lightburn to load the values from the file and write them back and then they stayed. Can be tricky if you're not used to monkeying around like that, but I mess with Arduinos and such so I'm used to it. Not sure if that would work on the XTool or if it's worth trying.

Maymay says you're an amazing guy! Have a blessed day!

Very good!

I love your videos. I need some advice. I do craft shows and all the work I do is with my Omtech CO2 laser. I'm looking to be able to take some pre-made items, like ornaments and such and be able to personalize on the spot. Is a diode laser with a camera a good way to do this? Are they fast enough to be personalizing basically with names? Can it be done accurately enough without a camera and is there a setup you recommend?

Helpful feedback... When showing the resulting piece, maximize the camera window. Because showing a result in a little window in the corner of the screen is BARELY visible.

Thanks for the video, have you used the camera with the extensions yet? If anyone else has please ring in!

Fantastic video...explains a lot! When you shut down for the day and turn everything on again, do you run through both calibrations and a test dot like you showed?

Is there a reason the image on the camera and the workspace image are upside to compared to each other? Is there a way to change that?

What is a good camera for an omtech 80w with a bed size of 28x20

Maymay showed us the Ink Bandit; how long before we can get it?? 🤣

Freaking love it man. Def makes me want to look into it. What distance is your camera above your honeycomb?