I've recently bought a Smoothieboard for the laser cutter at the Tokyo Hackerspace to

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I’ve recently bought a Smoothieboard for the laser cutter at the Tokyo Hackerspace to replace the crappy Chinese controller board that it came with. One of the other members told me about LaserWeb which I find to be a totally awesome thing.

My question is where do I start I see repos for laserweb 1 and 2, and I hear there’s also a 3. What we’re talking about doing is stashing a RaspberryPi in the laser cutter and using Laserweb to control the cutter, but I am not sure where to start. Links, directions, tutorials? anything would be greatful.

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Check the K40 group/ my g+ profile. I have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse running off the pi. I also think you could have a headless Pi, put it on your network, and log into its IP address from another computer on the local network. But you would have to keep that open and running for the duration of the job, which is why I chose to dedicate an old monitor to this workstation.

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+Peter van der Walt thanks, I guess I had seen something somewhere that sounded like LW3 was still in fairly early dev, sounds like that isn’t the case. So I’ll start there.

@raykholo cool thanks. We definitely want some kind of head on it, probably a 7" Pi Foundation TFT touch screen, probably go with some kind of keyboard and mouse, but if we can get away with only the screen that’d be better.

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@Net_Imp I use LW3 on a daily basis. Is much prime time as Windows 10

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lol, ok thanks!

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+Peter van der Walt oh awesome! I guess I’m still used to the old way where the job gets streamed from the browser.

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Thanks guys. I successfully installed v3 tonight. I don’t have the laser cutter here at home since it’s a the hackerspace, but this looks very promising. If I have any questions I’ll be back.