LaserVision by #NEHI is back online and streaming live now that I’ve had an opportunity to clean all the aluminum dust out of the apparatus and swap in a more powerful exhaust fan that should hopefully result in less aluminum dust ending up inside said apparatus this time around.
Want to watch light beat the crap out of metal? https://communitymedia.video/w/d1skEUzsMDuDz1EvtaPgk5 is the URL for y’url!
Huh.
#NEHI is one year old now.
Some days it feels like all this stuff is getting the better of me, not working the way I anticipate and generally being difficult.
But then I look at the things we’ve built, the skills we’ve learned, and the toys we’ve made during a particular timeframe, like over the last year, and I am forced to give myself a little grace. We’ve done a lot!
We just want to do more.
So we will!
Sundog’s Flash Review of the Snapmaker U1 3D Printer
Dang this thing is good.
Disclaimer: Our new printer has only been online for about 18 hours.
as we delve into new capabilities at #NEHI we end up with some cool, weird equipment we (ab)use to our purposes that I really wish were more inspectable.
let me at the gcode console for the fiber laser. let me at the firmware. get your “make it easy to do these crafty things” software out of my way and let me run the machine. the extra layer on top for the folk who want or need that is great, and I commend you for releasing and maintaining it, but let me under the covers. I’ll sign a waiver. I am a known warranty voider and you sold me the things anyway. let’s just get this over with.
after swinging through #NEHI for a quick brush of the aluminum dust from the parts being lased, I decided the calibration effort on laser #2 wasn’t going to do the thing we want it to do, so I terminated the job and will do further troubleshooting this coming week.
in the meantime, laser #1 is still blasting away at the back half of the mold until tomorrow morning and streaming here: https://communitymedia.video/w/eLZ9aajWYauRVxGfjRxPJ4
once it’s done and I clean the machine, I’ll get it started doing the mold front while I try and fix laser #2.
lasers!
We’ve got the four-color FDM printer offline for maintenance (it’s failed to complete its last four prints, mostly due to filament jams during filament changes and losing z-axis accuracy in the process of resuming the print) but we’re printing another huge Keshi Filibus on the OrangeStorm Giga over here: https://communitymedia.video/w/aNHhQV2ThVFMC4ehpbiXuR
and my diagnostic stream for the lasers I tried to get focused this morning is here: https://communitymedia.video/w/aNHhQV2ThVFMC4ehpbiXuR
(for the record, the laser in the upper left appears to be well focused and is ablating the aluminum in ways I’d expect for a successful run; the laser in the lower right appears to need another round of calibration, but imma let it run in case I’m wrong and being overly judgemental)
The printers, they run again!
https://communitymedia.video/w/aNHhQV2ThVFMC4ehpbiXuR is printing another big Filibus, this time in gray PLA. ETA: two days
https://communitymedia.video/w/3CyKR5ZXDsjx8a7EheSoFp is printing another four-color Filibus, in hopes that the purge tower doesn’t get knocked off the bed this time and we get a successful completion. ETA: 28 hours
DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab
Clayton Hove