There are many online guides to laser cutting acrylic, but the general rule is to get rid of the vaporized PMMA as rapidly as possible, preferably through a downdraft table.

So how do you make your own film-quality Authenticator? The two projects take slightly different approaches, but the basic idea is to create a three layer acrylic stack.

Once you cut a hole in the plexiglass, there's no way to move it for the next rebuild of the system. Unless the HSF doesn't change or move between rebuilds, cutting a hole would probably not be a ...