The kit was missing some metal corners for the main frame, but any way the frame seams quite strong only with the acrylic joints. As for the components quality, well, the frame is made out of metal and that’s a good thing. So make sure you have the weak mode selected before starting the machine.Ī good thing about this machine is that in any moment you could remove the laser module and add a drill and use it as a soft milling machine. There is clearly an error where the boar enables the laser when the USB is connected and that second is enough to hurt you. Another issue I’ve seen is that when the machine is powered and you connect the USB the laser will be at of full power and if you’re not careful, that might hurt you. The glasses they give you aren’t that good and for a direct beam exposure they might not protect you. First of all it doesn’t have a case so you won’t be protected from laser exposure. This machine has very few safety features. It has a great design, it looks nice and it’s quite powerfull. It is very fast and easy to mount in just a couple of hours and also very easy to use. It has decent precision that could even get better with more calibrations. The printing size is quite big of around 46 by 38 centimeters. Now my final opinion on this machine, well, it dose everything I expect it to do before buying it. You could play with the machine settings and try other materials.

There you go, I’ve burned my first logo on a piece of wood. Make sure you open a window or have fume extractor since this will create a lot of smoke especially when you are engraving wood. Remember to disactivate the weak mode and we are now ready to print.Ĭhange your settings in the print config if you want and click play and the machine will start engraving. Press the laser push button to put it into weak mode and rotate the laser tip till you get a very small and well focused beam. Now make sure you have the safety glasses on, and that you’ve focused the laser. I’ve designed the file in Photoshop and save it in a BMP format. In the parameters you must place this same values as you can see in the photo above for X and Y movement as for the laser as well. If it says success than you are ready to go. Upload and wait till you get a green check mark. Select the Com of the machine board and open the hexadecimal file that you have in the downloaded folder. Here click the update firmware in order to upload it to the board. Once that is done, install the benbox software and open it. First make sure you install the CH 340 driver.

Inside you have the software but also the firmware for the main board in a hexadecimal format.

Download the zip file below and extract it.

Benbox laser engraver software download