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<\/a><\/p>\nThe engraver came with some exceedingly shite Chinese software (Moshi Engraver), but I did know that, and had ordered a cnc controller board with the idea of retrofitting that in. (its actually in the photo above funnily enough)<\/p>\n
It has sat in the office mildly unused, but still in my thoughts.<\/p>\n
One of my clients finally asked what was that large orange thing upstairs, and I dragged it out and setup for them to show off some test paper cuts.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow will take a closer look at working out the pinouts as I didn’t get very far today in getting EMC2 talking nicely to to the Y axis (which was the goal for tonight).<\/p>\n
Long term will be interested in making it work as a printer driven hardware device, but for now EMC2 is good enough.
\nhttp:\/\/www.laoslaser.org\/ is making interesting progress in that regard, and I might look at talking directly to the Engraver factory about integrating and making a few with a few to selling a *decent* version.<\/p>\n
As this will be a work in progress, here are the links that will be useful.
\nSome need a vee pee en to view in China sadly.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.cnczone.com\/forums\/laser_engraving_cutting_machines\/138554-cheap_laser_cutter_modifications.html<\/a> As I’ve been dabbling in the mad sciences recently, I thought I’d get some more toys. This culminated in the purchase of a laser engraver. This is it sitting next to another interesting toy I own – a CNC. He who dies with the most toys wins dontcha know \ud83d\ude42 The engraver came with some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,4],"tags":[373,374,375,241,310,372,371],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasers","category-useful-info","tag-cnc","tag-cutter","tag-engraver","tag-hacking","tag-hardware","tag-laos","tag-laser"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.thinkhaus.org\/2010\/06\/19\/howto-turn-a-cheap-chinese-laser-engraver-into-a-pretty-good-laser-cutter\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.stephenhobley.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/upgrading-a-laser-cutter-from-china\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.andyslater.com\/laser-cutting\/cnc-conversion.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/dank.bengler.no\/-\/page\/show\/5473_connectinggrbl<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.synthfool.com\/laser\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.laoslaser.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"