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D.I.Y. Selective Laser Sintering
There is a great Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) project being blogged at ReRap Builders by Peter Jansen. Sintering is basically fusing powder by heating it just under the melting point. SLS is 3D...
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Open Hardware Summit
I call my laser an open source design. What does that mean? Right now it means whatever I want it too. That is actually a bit of a pain because I am on my own own to define it. The route I chose...
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D.I.Y. Selective Laser Sintering – Update
Update. Peter is still working on his SLS project. He is experimenting with a new fully laser-cuttable x/y stage. He is catching some flack for the ideas in some blog comment sections like hackaday....
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The Age of the Self Replicating Machine.
There is a saying amongst DIY CNC router builders that goes something like this… “You only need to build your first router good enough to build you second one“. In my case that turned out to be true....
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Arduino G-Code Stepper Controller
Reza Naima has been working on an Arduino G-Code Interpreter. There have been a few other projects like the grbl projects and the rerap type machines have some g-code history to them. Most of the...
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Phlatscript – Sketchup to G-code
This is a plugin for Google Sketchup that generates G-Code from 2D drawings from the folks at Phlatboyz.com. It is very limited in what it can do, but many people will like the familiar interface of...
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