We’ve seen plenty of plywood 3D printers before; after all, many early hobbyist machines were made from laser-cut plywood ... a hybrid additive-subtractive CNC machine. A gantry-mounted router ...

Sure, you can already do these things with individual tools, and there are a handful of machines on the market that combine ...

Hooking up a laser to a CNC gantry isn’t exactly an Earth-shattering innovation, but it does make for a useful tool. Even a cheap diode laser mounted to an old 3D printer can do engraving ...