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

[hol at gaskill.com]

thanks for bringing in the machine and i agree just swapping in a 
replacement driver is best.  count me in for $20

On 2015-01-08 22:14, Adam Munich 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**)
> 
> 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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