[Swansea Hackspace] Laser Cutter progress

[Ceri Clatworthy]

Whoop Whoop

Definitely got a few things to cut !!
Ceri

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Justin Mitchell <
justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

>  We are making excellent progress with the laser cutter, it has now been
> fitted with many interlocks and safeguards to prevent accidental exposure
> to the laser when it is operating, and to obscure all those places where
> you could previously peek inside.
>
> We have one more safeguard to complete, which will ensure that the water
> cooling is operating before you can fire the laser, which is for it's
> protection more than ours.
>
> Once this is complete and we update the various safety notices we should
> be able to run some real jobs through it, and give training to the very
> keenest of members. The software to drive it is still the supplied windows
> tool, and is therefore not the easiest to work with, but we will be
> replacing the control electronics and offering a more familiar interface to
> it in the near future, we just wanted to get the device operational as soon
> as possible.
>
> Can people please login to the website and vote on the courses they would
> most like to see so that we can prepare notes and materials.
>
>
> Image: Minimum Power setting cutting text into paper
>
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