LAOS - Laser Open Source

2015-06-23

11:45 LAOS Laser Discussion and support: RE: Circles going to D shape

Inkskape has known issues when it is handling nested transformed objects. This mostly relates to rotating of grouped...

11:32 LAOS Laser Discussion and support: RE: Jump in X-axis when engraving

Rastering is for bitmaps, engraving is often used as a synonym for rastering but is really a term to describe surface...

2015-03-18

20:55 LAOS Laser Discussion and support: RE: Problems etching

One release back is not ancient (especially since the last to are both still quite new) but trying the last one can r...

2015-02-21

17:01 LAOS Laser Discussion and support: RE: Can't make round circles

Those circles and squares look like a lot of backlash (slop, slack, play) present in one axis. You may have the carr...

2013-12-30

22:15 LAOS Laser Hardware development: RE: DA converter versus PWM for laser power

Something I just remembered about opto couplers. The standard types have a limited switching speed so the PWM freque...

08:47 LAOS Laser Hardware development: RE: Upcoming rev 5 mainboard

Looking very good.
A lot of good improvements already implemented and the engineering feels right, a few suggestio...

2013-12-13

10:23 LAOS Laser Hardware development: RE: DA converter versus PWM for laser power

A low-pass filter is a good idea.
The problem is if you make it too low then you cannot change the setting at the ...

2013-11-01

08:54 LAOS Laser Wiki edit: LAOS_I2C_Panel_v03 (#24)

08:49 LAOS Laser Hardware development: RE: Schematics

I would very much have liked to have had a schematic for the I2C LCD terminal last night. I managed to get sorted out...

2013-10-27

08:37 LAOS Laser Bug #91: Decide for one Bugtracker

Hmm,
Don't know how GitHub works yet, going to try figure it out some day.
LAOS moved to RedMine to integrate t...