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Peter,

Thanks for the assistance and tips. I've got the laser firing on and turning off. I used a transistor (and resistor) wired to pin 17, collector to 5v "L" and emitter to "Gnd". When Z goes...

Peter,

Thank you for the reply. I have attached some photos to illustrate the effect of the delay on the output.

This first image shows results using M03/M05 without setting delay to zero....

Hello one and all ~

I am seeking assistance in setting up my laser. I have finished building a 48" x 24" setup.
- optics harvested from older hk40 machine
- Xylotex board from my router
-...

Hey Aksess,

That is some WAY nice work! Absolutely incredible what your are doing with your CNC router.

I am so tempted to try this on my router, but I can't even begin to imagine how long it...

Hey Stephen -

In my last post, when I said "create a new seal" I meant to use this option:

(2)New empty：open a new plain working area - this will give you the option to create any size area...

Hey Stephen -

I'll give it a go...

1) I am not sure why Moshi has 2 speeds. I wondered if speed1 was the top speed and if speed2 was an acceleration value. I guess I am no help on that...

Hi Stephen, diarmaid, txcowdog (and the rest of the gang)

We can't be the only ones receiving these units who have had to "wrestle" with them to get them to work. I wonder how many of these units...

Hey Stephen,

So, you did say you cut vectors using "line". Is this in the "Output" screen?

I have looked all over, I could only find "outline" - Where am I going wrong?

Thanks

Steve

Now that IS some good news! Way to go. I am glad you hung in there!

Show us a pic of something you cut, ok.

Be well and good luck,

Steve

Hey Steve,

how is it going today? Have you tried in on your desktop? I hope it's working out.

Steve

It is rather sad that we haven't heard one success story for ANY of the low cost lasers.

Ink Express ships quickly and offers timely responses to SALES queries and that's about it. So far, people...

Steve -

1 more thing -
should you choose the cnc route, you wuold also need some method of producing gcode, which is what the cnc control software requires. Basically, it is X, Y and Z data. I...

Hey Steve,

Here are some of my thoughts - but I just got back from a long-ish bicycle ride. I haven't refueled yet, so the thoughts are less than organized.

Motion Control from Laptop:
Many...

Hi Steve

You are SO CLOSE to getting this to work. You will be cutting soon.

Here is the deal as I see it.

When you open the moshi software, on the upper left there is the file tab.
When...

Hey Steve,

Well, either way - Florida or Vermont - it is a bit far for this California kid to take a look at it.

How are things coming together?

So, I just disconnected my laser engraver...

USB v Parallel compatibility...

Hey Steve - I truly hope that the USB to parallel cable solution works. Let me know either way on that one.

First, let me ask, is your software called Moshi or...

Hey Steve -

Well, it arrived rather quickly! That is a good thing. Sorry to hear that it was less than perfect. So frikkin frustrating. I do hope you can figure out a way to get Ink Express to...

Hey Colonel -

I was hoping you might be right down the proverbial street..but alas, I am in Nor California. Regardless, I'll try to provide assistance.

Of course, it makes sense to try to get...

Hey Colonel -

For what its worth - I felt exactly the same way. I almost ordered from Electronic Utopia. I was uneasy about sending money to the potential black hole. But, after sending Elec...

I meant "knob" not "know"

Be sure the laser power KNOB is ALL THE WAY to the left.

I just don't know how guys like that can sleep at night. Man, I am sure sorry that you have experienced such a horrible experience.

Here are my thoughts for damage control.

The cable, at...

Hi smparkinson -

Well congrats on the order and I hope it arrives safe, sound and soon.

One thing you can do while you are waiting is to go to a hardware store and buy a clean 5 gallon...

Thanks Diarmaid -

I really do like gears...and with the aim of making gears of different tooth count that can mesh together, I cobbled together a little excel application. At first, it was for...

And here is an example of a 45tooth gear cut out on the engraver. The gear came out very nice. Notice how only one of the bogus got cut.

Hey Gang -

I guess I have to eat a few of my words and take back what I said. Here goes.

If you have been keeping up with my postings on the subject, I bought my Ink Express IE 300 mini laser...

Hi Scott,

I haven't spent too much time trying to engrave, so I may not know all the options. But it certainly doesn't appear that there are any choices for pulse settings.

The glass was...

Hi Scott,

I suppose the best answer is that it is limited to flat surfaces. Likely, that is the only answer.

But I have been giving the cylinder engraving idea some thought.

Now the rest of...

Hey Miljnor -

In this case, the laser engraved where the image was light in color and it did not engrave where the image was dark. There is a choice. There are 2 check boxes (click on one and...

The IE300 laser engraver ONLY works with their included software. The software is called MoshiDraw by MoshiSoft. It ONLY runs on a windows PC.

The software will accept bmp and jpeg and a couple...

The following is a quick list of suppliers of low cost laser engravers. I don't know the best way to maintain a list here, but if people find other suppliers with websites, seems like this would be a...