Glowforge Craft Laser™ Filter

I got the aura with the filter and I was quite surprised at how light both units were compared to the Glowforge Pro (I also own that and it's heavy). The unboxing and setup experience is surprisingly lightning quick: you remove a few pieces of padding and foam, connect the laser assembly to the gimbal track, power the unit on, and run the setup app to connect it to your home WIFI. A lot of care went into the customer experience to get up and running with the unit as quickly as possible. Once connected, most of the registration is automatic, achieved by simply logging into your glowforge account from within the setup app. After that, just load up a design in the web-based app, and hit print, and a few moments later you'll have your design! I believe the Aura is a diode laser, vs the Pro's CO2 laser. Diode lasers are better for engraving TiO2 into tile vs CO2 lasers (too powerful), and I'm hoping to use this unit to engrave some photographs onto ceramic tile! Both the Aura and the Filter look super sleek and clean, and the app is really easy to use. Glowforge has made engraving and cutting really accessible, which is great for people who are curious about the skill but don't want to spend weeks learning to calibrate CNC laser engravers/cutters or learn really complex CNC software to make those engravings/cuttings. My son is really into thunderstorms at the moment, so we used the Magic Canvas feature of the Glowforge app to generate a small thunderstorm as a first print on the included piece of engraving material! And, he's really sensitive to loud noises, so the quiet fan noise from both units was an added bonus (the pro's internal fan is quite a bit louder than the aura and filter combined).