Received: by 10.205.123.145 with SMTP id gk17mr345730bkc.2.1351965911297; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:05:11 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lasersaur@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.204.7.212 with SMTP id e20ls5564665bke.8.gmail; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.148.22 with SMTP id n22mr344307bkv.0.1351965909531; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.148.22 with SMTP id n22mr344306bkv.0.1351965909518; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from aibo.runbox.com (aibo.runbox.com. [91.220.196.211]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v13si1257275bkw.0.2012.11.03.11.05.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 91.220.196.211 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ste...@nortd.com) client-ip=91.220.196.211; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 91.220.196.211 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ste...@nortd.com) smtp.mail=ste...@nortd.com Received: from [10.9.9.206] (helo=mailfront02.runbox.com) by bars.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUi5k-0003hq-Ef for lasersaur@googlegroups.com; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:05:08 +0100 Received: from [213.162.68.92] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by mailfront02.runbox.com with esmtpsa (uid:794120 ) (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) id 1TUi5B-0000xz-Gh for lasersaur@googlegroups.com; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:04:33 +0100 Message-ID: <50955CB0.1090107@nortd.com> Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:04:32 +0100 From: Stefan Hechenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lasersaur@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lasersaur] Re: Lasersaur build update References: <503ABFF1.60707@nortd.com> <2264B61F8C2A45DC95773B87629E9CD5@davidPC> <50492E8A.5030...@gmail.com> <504C66EE.4000...@nortd.com> <50507E65.5020...@nortd.com> <508D18C4.8020...@allartburns.org> <35939715-220D-44D6-A544-FD672EEFE...@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35939715-220D-44D6-A544-FD672EEFE...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit congrats! looking good. Did you see the manual page about alignment? It's normal to take a bit of time but should not be terribly hard. It usually takes me about 20min the first time. http://labs.nortd.com/lasersaur/manual/optics_setup Thanks for the video, -- Stefan Hechenberger studio: Nortd Labs - labs.nortd.com resident: F.A.T. Lab - fffff.at project: Lasersaur - labs.nortd.com/lasersaur On 11/03/2012 06:09 PM, Erik Moon wrote: > Hi All- > > Ok -- our Lasersaur is now cutting!! > > Videos of our first cut: > > replicatemypart.com > > > We were able to cut 1/4" MDF and 4 mm Acrylic sheet on our first day. It > is looking pretty good. > > I can't tell you how frustrating laser alignment was to complete� I > think there is a serious need for some documentation on the best > procedure for doing that. We stumbled onto a good solution, but I'm > pretty sure we did not take the easy way to getting that done. > > -Erik & Jason