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Thanks jgrouse,
yeah, I built my own spindle, could have used a lower rpm… went for a 45Krpm motor lol direct drive... for the small cutters im using it has plenty of torque. i wanted a compact spindle, I could not find one so I made one...
you can see how i built i here: http://rwgresearch.com/open-projects/brushless-cnc-spindle-build-3d-printer/
it has a vacuum attachment that i made as seen in that other video.
The Laser I got from here http://www.ebay.com/itm/361709323088?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT and it states it has a built in current / driver circuit… will see about that once i get it, i may need to buy/make an external driver. I want to be able to control the beam strength. I'm hoping that a PWM pin will work, as David stated. then I can even use the extra heater channel. I want to use a SSR just to control the voltage ( if it has a built in current circuit.) then again i may need way more control, something that is constant out put. will see, i guess it could be all or nothing for first go
and yeah, cheep laser, so i might get what i pay for
~Russ
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Posted a link further up the thread.
@jgrouse:I'm now on 1.16 with the 1.13 Web code and I still get the web interface locking up when I start a job which does not extrude or use hot ends/beds. I now get the following as soon as the job is started:
Communication Error
An AJAX error has been reported, so the current session has been terminated.
Please check if your printer is still on and try to connect again.
Error reason: SyntaxError: Unexpected token ] in JSON at position 446I can only reconnect to the web interface when the job is complete. Interestingly the emergency stop button still works, however I would like to get some form of feed back as well as the ability to press pause and adjust feedrates.
Here is a very simple gcode file set up to laser cut a square using the first PWM port on the Duex5 board (M42 P3 S255) to set the Laser driver power - https://app.box.com/s/7h697i7c9qghmhw13rqwjwc34iun59f0
Happy to add whatever is needed to the gcode to allow the web interface to give me some feedback and control over the job.
Thanks Dave/Christian in advance if either of you can help me out?
Here is a newer file using the M400 call to clear the buffer - https://app.box.com/s/2pdgx6qogjhxvfp3se5te3xh04el453o. This one cuts a square out of 3mm ply using a 7W blue laser. Cut2D does let you define your own postprocessors so I do have quite a bit of control over what it puts out. The one thing that is not used as a variable in Cut2d is the extruder values (clearly). At this point I'm satisfied with the output I'm creating with my custom postprocessor for Cut2D and the only grief I'm having is the whole web interface crashing when I start a print. If that can get addressed then I'm sure quite a few people wanting to expand beyond just 3d printing with this hardware will be able to move forward in this direction.
I tried printing that file (Square.gcode) on both my Duet 0.6 powered Cartesian printer and my Duet WiFi powered delta, after sending M307 H3 A-1 C-1 D-1 in both cases. I didn't get any web interface disconnects. But the Ajax error message you reported above clearly indicates that the firmware on your machine is sending an incorrectly formatted JSON response.
Please upgrade your firmware to 1.17dev8, which is what I am running, and make sure you are running DWC 1.13. If the disconnect persists and you are still getting that "Syntax error" message, then what I really need is the .pcap file from a Wireshark trace covering the disconnect.
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I tried printing that file (Square.gcode) on both my Duet 0.6 powered Cartesian printer and my Duet WiFi powered delta, after sending M307 H3 A-1 C-1 D-1 in both cases. I didn't get any web interface disconnects. But the Ajax error message you reported above clearly indicates that the firmware on your machine is sending an incorrectly formatted JSON response.
Please upgrade your firmware to 1.17dev8, which is what I am running, and make sure you are running DWC 1.13. If the disconnect persists and you are still getting that "Syntax error" message, then what I really need is the .pcap file from a Wireshark trace covering the disconnect.
The JSON error was the result of using 1.17dev8 and the 1.13 web control, as it was with 1.16FW/1.13WC. Are you using Chrome as your browser as well?
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I tried printing that file (Square.gcode) on both my Duet 0.6 powered Cartesian printer and my Duet WiFi powered delta, after sending M307 H3 A-1 C-1 D-1 in both cases. I didn't get any web interface disconnects. But the Ajax error message you reported above clearly indicates that the firmware on your machine is sending an incorrectly formatted JSON response.
Please upgrade your firmware to 1.17dev8, which is what I am running, and make sure you are running DWC 1.13. If the disconnect persists and you are still getting that "Syntax error" message, then what I really need is the .pcap file from a Wireshark trace covering the disconnect.
The JSON error was the result of using 1.17dev8 and the 1.13 web control, as it was with 1.16FW/1.13WC. Are you using Chrome as your browser as well?
No, I am using FireFox because I have big problems with Chrome under Windows 10.
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Might give FireFox a go…
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Getting the same error with FireFox. Here is my config.g -https://app.box.com/s/z6254z515p21p8uu92zg3uwhdgeaqcvy. Surely it is something to do with not having any hot end or headbed defined?
Current web error is -
"An AJAX error has been reported, so the current session has been terminated.
Please check if your printer is still on and try to connect again.
Error reason: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 453 of the JSON data" -
Thanks, with that config.g I was able to reproduce the problem. Fixed in 1.17RC1 due out soon.
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I thought this was an appropriate place for this…
Please subscribe to my you tube channel if you want to keep up to date on this project...
Here is the home made spindle running from the Duet wifi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QpJ_aUhH1s
Best, ~Russ
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Fairly sure the G2/G3 support was in DC42's wishlist already? I'll double check…
I didn't find it. But what's the point in supporting it if none of the slicers support it? Writing gcode by hand?
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?262,407139,737519#msg-737519
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@nokian:
Fairly sure the G2/G3 support was in DC42's wishlist already? I'll double check…
I didn't find it. But what's the point in supporting it if none of the slicers support it? Writing gcode by hand?
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?262,407139,737519#msg-737519
http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code#G2_.26_G3:_Controlled_Arc_MoveI believe CNC GCodes more often contain G2/G3 commands so to widen the applicability of RepRapFirmware this would be good to add. Also there is a bit of chicken and egg. If no firmware supports it then why bother implementing it in a slicer.
Of course we also need to move past STL style model formats (which contain only straight lines) to a model format that has curves before it makes sense for slicers to support arc!
None the less the implementation chain has to start somewhere. For example RepRapFirmware had mixing capabilities long before multiple input hotends were publically available and that's only really been.useduch realtively recently.
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I created a thread in the firmware wishlist section of the forum about adding G2/G3:
https://www.duet3d.com/forum/thread.php?id=755
