[sudo-discuss] sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 27, Issue 4

[Ben Burke]

I'm go halfsies with Brendan on the replacement board... In exchange for his future help with a servo issue. :)

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:20 AM, Brendan <b.d.reddybest at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Wanted to shoot off a quick reply before passing out. I have a shipment of those driver chips at the post office that I need to pick up, but since that's not going to be a viable solution-- I do feel a certain amount of responsibility and while I do not currently have cash this week i would probably be able to finance this in a  week or two. Let me discuss the purchase with my partner before i commit though.  
> Brendan 
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>    1. Laser gantry, oh gantry, where art thou drivers? (Adam Munich)
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> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 22:14:09 -0800
> From: Adam Munich <adam at aperture.systems>
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> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Laser gantry, oh gantry, where art thou
> drivers?
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> 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**)
> 
> 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.
> 
> The other option, suggested by rayc is to use an arduino, stepper
> controllers and a g-code generating toolchain to run the machine.
> While I don't see any reason why that couldn't work, I feel like that
> might be a bit awkward for people who wish to use the cutter, and
> further makes the guide I wrote kind of useless.
> http://hack.rit.edu/tools/full-spectrum-laser-cutter/
> 
> As a community, what do y'all believe is best?
> 
> Cheers,
> -Adam
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