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

[Adam Munich]

I believe what's happening is Brendan and Ben are going to split the FSL board.

I'll mail in the old one soon & front the cost s.t. we get this guy up
and running quickly :-)

Cheers,
-Adam
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:59 AM, David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to check lightobject.com,  he is local and sells laser cutter
> parts for reasonable prices, and aren't jerks like FSL.
>
> On Jan 9, 2015 11:55 AM, <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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