After I got my laser cutter smoothified (thanks everyone for all your help), I have not even had a chance to use it more than once or twice. Part of the reason for this is that I don’t have a good workstation for the laser to be. I’m planning on doing putting a vent outside for it, since I have just been using my dryer duct for exhaust. Has anyone come up with a table/computer/monitor setup to go with the k40?
On another note, I picked up a couple raspberry pi 3’s, these things are a night and day difference compared to the old B+. I tried getting the laserweb3 program to download, but it had a lot of errors. Node.js worked just fine. Any one else using a pi? Is a pi3 capable of running laserweb alone? Or would it just be the hub between computer and laser?
I have a Pi 3 coming from http://amazon.com via the Uk, so I guess the fact that it has been upgraded it would probably work. But I can not say for certain until I test out their install method for it.
For the longest I used a laptop next to it with the exhaust ran to my office. Recently upgraded to smoothie (by c3d) and will be trying a LAN connection, but I have a long usb to my desktop.
To get it out of the way, I built mine into a coffee table (or rather built a coffee table to house it) and then later made hollow ceiling beams to carry the exhaust.
