[sudo-discuss] Laser gantry, oh gantry, where art thou drivers?

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

AMT has made some good use of CrowdTilt to raise money for hardware pieces
in the past. Like this one, for example:
http://acemonstertoys.org/content/crowdtilt-textiles-program-industrial-sewing-machine

Of course, you wind up paying a fee for the convenience of having a little
crowdfunding platform like this. A box on the other hand has much less
overhead ;-)

Count me in for $30. And yes, let's figure out the ducting as well...

Patrik

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Adam Munich <adam at aperture.systems>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The full spectrum laser cutter I brought to the hacker pace has been
>> out of service for some time, after Brendon's attempt to fix its loose
>> keyswitch ended in board-popping disaster. (Shit happens,  **but
>> ermehgawd always remove power before fixing circuits guize**)
>>
>
> :( crap
>
>
>
>> Anyway, I bought some new stepper motor drivers to replace the burnt
>> ones on the controller, but unfortunately there seems to be more
>> wrecked with it than just that simple fix. I'd love to get this thing
>> working for the community, though, that's a bit hard with no brains
>> for the machine.
>>
>> A new board from full spectrum is $1500, but I contacted them with a
>> "we're a poor hackerspace" card and they'd be willing to replace it
>> for $250 if I mail in the old controller, which I feel is within
>> raise-able reach. This would give us full access to their software
>> suite / print driver, and a reliable machine.
>>
>
> Awesome! Let's do it! Let's set up a physical donation box and maybe an
> online one too and send it out to our community! I can set up one online of
> someone else sets up the physical one. Maybe we should raise $350 instead
> so we can pay for duct and mounting brackets and actually get the fumes
> hooked up.
>
> Thanks for doing this Adam. This is awesome.
>
> --
> marc/juul
>
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