K40 Laser Cutter
Maria got me a k40 laser cutter for my birthday!
It was surprisingly easy to set up considering it probably had a pretty rough trip from China. I just followed the guide here to align the mirrors and I was ready to go.
To control the laser, I used InkScape to make the designs and k40 whisperer to connect to the laser.
Here’s some pictures of the results:
This dice tower was based on these designs
K40WebServer
While K40whisperer is a totally functional tool, I thought it would be useful to be able to have a dedicated network accessible computer to be able to remotely run prints on to avoid needing to bring the computer you’re creating the image on over to the printer. K40whisperer has a pretty gnarly codebase so I was pleased to find an active project that exposed the functionality as an API.
I created K40WebServer based on remi to get the basic functionality I was interested in. I may come back to this when I have a chance.