I've been able to see the GF at a maker faire, it can do that. The macro lens on the shot makes the work piece look larger than it is. It's a capable machine. More capable by far than a K40 though...
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I've been able to see the GF at a maker faire, it can do that. The macro lens on the shot makes the work piece look larger than it is. It's a capable machine. More capable by far than a K40 though...
The fact they got it under $10k at all is pretty remarkable. I'm curious about the longevity though at that price it's not too much more than Shapeoko and a fair bit less than a Shopbot Buddy.
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Welcome to the world of waterjet. It's expensive. The Wazer is a prototyping/small shop machine. Just like it's not going to be used for food, it's not going to be used for production. Small...
No, it's not recoverable. Additionally, it's an open loop water supply. I use a Flow Mach2 and a Mach3 a fair amount at Techshop. They use some of the recovered garnet and it's a closed system. ...
It's not used by most of us to monitor over the Web. I have an 8 bot farm, two jobs are spooled right now, I can view it from the next room and load and spool jobs across the network. Most of the...
Indeed it's an issue of deliverability. I'd say a good amount of those that might use the GF are in the same boat as you are. Most of the time my connection is pretty good though when it's not,...
I'm familiar with duty cycle issues, we deal with them with welders and plasma cutters. I just didn't know there was a restriction on this machine. They claim it will be about an hour. We'll see....
Good to see the GF love still strong here at the mill...
The price was always an introductory price that was going up after the initial batches sold. The big holdup has been the redesign of the...
The door switch can be a magnetic switch (though some are mechanical) located somewhere around the door to ensure it's closed when you run the machine. Many of them are on the left side, near the...
If you can't get it going from the clip I posted you should get someone to help. A good way to do that is go to a local makerspace and ask if they have anyone either on staff or know of a member...
This clip will show you how to test the PSU as well as basic tube testing. The PSU test and and first two tube checks are easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4ln4_vT3g I had an issue where I...
Before X7 I was using a free online QR generator. The drawback was that the free version wasn't a scalable svg so resizing was an issue at times. Much of the time converting the image and scaling...
Most of the core startup team had software/app background. No one really had much hardware experience, at least for something of this scale. That's changed over the last 8-9 months and they've...
MS Office has been available on the Mac for years. I use both the Win and Mac versions. In fact Excel started life as a Mac only app way back in the day. Using Parallels Corel X8, Autocad and even...
I wouldn't use a Nest cam. A Pi and Raspi cam is an open, more flexible solution that is far less expensive. I've a fair amount of experience with them. There is a ton of info and community...
Keith makes a couple of great points that can't be emphasised enough. It sounds like the OP has enough of a cushion/backstop from the family business to help see him through. Many talk about the...
This isn't a China only issue. Sending anyone cash that you don't know or haven't vetted, US, China, Europe can be dicey. In the US your only recourse might be a lawsuit. I have Chinese suppliers...
I haven't used magnetic disk drives for a few years now. An SSD is considered standard fare. The issue some with very old machines will have is the drive controller won't interface though you can...
Kev, your issue isn't the advancement of operating systems but in the management of your technology cycle. That's all good and well you want to use older, unsupported software but it's an issue for...
On the Win 10 machines on both the standalone machine for the laser and the VM I use on the daily driver Win10 is noticeably faster with respect to the interface. With X8 renders are faster, the...
That doesn't look like any of the mylar I cut here as solder paste stencils. I use the Duralar brand. I get it locally, here it is at Amazon. ...
If you have instances where you have vertical apps that require an older version of Windows you should always have cloned disks or spares available to swap them. A Torchmate 2 machine (with parallel...
That's changing. Laserweb3/CNCWeb is working on lasers and 2.5D CNC. It can run on a local machine, embedded controller on the device (RaspPi, BBB, etc) or on a host from over the network for those...
He's referring to the stepper motor driver. Some call them amplifiers. They should be in your electronics compartment somewhere near the board you just replaced. They are typically black boxes...
There is a controller called Smoothie that's been used quite a bit in 3D printing and some other CNC operations, primarily routers (and a few plasma tables) that is starting to be used for laser...