If they're spending time/resources developing proprietary components when OTS units are readily available, something else will come up short.Originally Posted by Matt McCoy
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If they're spending time/resources developing proprietary components when OTS units are readily available, something else will come up short.
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Not for potentially deadly electrical items it's not http://www.conformance.co.uk/It's my understanding that CE compliance is self-certified
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YongLi are less than happy that they decided to use YL tubes matched to their own power supplies (the tubes are YongLi NOT RECI)If they're spending time/resources developing proprietary components when OTS units are readily available, something else will come up short.
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Which directive do lasers fall under in the UK?
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Did you follow the Link Dave posted? Things are a little different in UK and Europe.
GF is re-inventing the wheel as it was pointed out, they have ignored basic co2 laser technology and parts already on the market. They could have learned a little about tube cooling and not have the issues with the 75 Deg F room requirement which a lot of new users are discovering for the first time.
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The idea of a desktop waterjet (Wazer) was interesting to me until I noticed cloud processing. Build the hardware, put a FANUC controller in it, and call it done.
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...or put an Arduino in it and call it done. X,Y motion control does not need the cloud.
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My favorite quote from Dan S on their October update....
"The product wasn’t wonderful yet, and so we spent tens of millions of dollars more on research, development, and production to make it wonderful for you before we started shipping."
"Tens of millions of dollars more on research, development, and production" ??????? Tens of millions would be at least 20 million, right? If that's what $20 million in R&D looks like, that's frightening.
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Sounds like irresponsible spending. There is nothing truly groundbreaking about anything the GF does.
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Yes, I did.
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I had a chance to talk to the developers of a popular motion-control Arduino shield at a conference. When it was mentioned that it would have only cost $1 to add WiFi to the card, the question arose: Why not just include it? Their answer was that it would have added millions of dollars to their production costs, since they were producing millions of units.
The go-to now seems to be, not only motion control in the cloud, but also for processing cut files. Would an Arduino be able/better for that? Side note: FSL has gone to the Beaglebone as a cloud pass-through for the Muse, I think.
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thats just more DS BS
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Yes I would be interested also. But not the "Cloud" and why not just off the shelf hardware and a kit? Yes I have used Arduino in a not very successful blue light laser project.
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Except these 6 patents:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=inassignee:%22Glowforge+Inc.%22&hl=en&tbm =pts&lr=lang_en&cad=h
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As I said, nothing groundbreaking.
Without a working internet connection the GF is a paperweight.
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