[Swansea Hackspace] Laser Cutter progress

Ceri Clatworthy ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com
Sun May 31 15:54:29 BST 2015


Did anyone get the aluminium L section
For the front and back doors? ?

I have been out today. .
Bun can't find any..
At a sensible price / size

Looks like a trip to B&Q
If now one else has....

Ceri
On 31 May 2015 11:09, "Richard Morgan" <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>
wrote:

> Well done all.
>
> Can you put a link to the 'voting' page on the site for the courses -
> might be user error but I can't find it...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2015 at 13:10 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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