Our guest this week is Dan Shapiro. Dan is the founder of Glowforge, the 3D laser printer. He’s also the creator of Robot Turtles, the board game that teaches programming to preschoolers. He wrote Hot Seat: The CEO Guidebook, and his latest hobby is throwing his wife and twin 10-year-olds in dungeons with dragons.

Glowforge 3D Laser Printer
The Glowforge 3D laser printer is something that founded the company now almost five years ago. We did a crowdfunding campaign, but now we’ve actually been shipping them for a couple of years. We got people building businesses on them, we’ve got people building their woodworking hobbies and fundraisers around them, we’ve got schools who are using them for prototyping and for art class and for engineering and for STEM, and it is basically a desktop CNC laser cutter engraver that can engrave and cut and sculpt surfaces with a ton of precision pretty fast. It’s really easy to use. It fits on a desktop. It’s about the size of, think about a bag you’d check. It’s like 38 inches wide and I want to say 18, 20 inches deep. You can cut 18 by 10 and a half inches. I have it in the basement. There’s no ventilation. We have a product called the Compact Filter, which sits underneath the Glowforge. Glowforge starts at $2,500, and you can connect it to a window or you can put it in the basement like me and put in a Compact Filter, which is another $995, and that does all the filtering so you can run it anywhere, anywhere with wifi and a power plug.

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