It has worked fine. No issues with stability or leveling.

Getting it to the right height is a bit of a hassle if you change material thickness frequently because in order to adjust it I have to remove the work piece and the honeycomb bed, turn the screw, add everything back to check if it’s right, and if not, repeat the process until it’s dialed in. Usually I am working with 3mm ply though so it’s not very often I need to fiddle with it, and when I need to work on something bulky it’s nice to be able to lift it without for added depth.

Hey there,

Lots of things over the past few years. I will list them here and just let me know if you want more details.

Most recently to oldest

*Built a new stand/rolling cart with laptop drawer and monitor mount

*Air hose regulator so I can easily toggle the air for the assist on and off without messing with the compressor valve

*Microcontroller based thermostat that triggers LED lights when water for the coolant gets too hot

*Cohesion 360 board so I can use lightburn and control power intensity from computer

*Secondary power supply to run case upgrades

*Extra case lights

*Intake fans

*Laser crosshairs

*Drag chain for air assist and laser cross hair wires

*analog Ammeter

*analog flow gauge

*Scissor lift

*Honeycomb bed

*Inline exhaust setup

A classic

The Ryan’s Steakhouse Incident. Stumbled across it over a decade ago and still the memory of it makes me laugh.

http://www.ihos.com/steakhouse.html

Did you ever find the answer to your question?

It will depend on your lenses and their corresponding focal length. Normally for cutting you want that focal point to hit halfway through the thickness of the material you are cutting. For etching slate I would put that focal length right at the surface.

The standard focal length for a k40, which is the laser I use, with the stock lenses is 50.8mm I believe.

I have a k40, it’s a Chinese laser cutter that can be had for around $400.

It’s been great for me.

Cool! What do you use for finish?

Nice! Now you need to make a box to store them in

The colors are a nice touch! Thanks for sharing

I have been thinking about making new boxes for a few different games so saving this idea for later.

I have been trying to figure out in my head how I could do a lasercut version of Battleship too.

I’ll have to play around with some of these. Any you have found useful?

That is cool thanks for sharing.

Haha thanks

I have never looked into eink phones, which do you use?

This is a cool style!

Looks cool.

Ignore if you already know this, but I was having issues when I joined a few weeks ago so passing on what I learned.

Unlike reddit, Lemmy lets you edit your original post so you can still add the image if you wanted. Either the direct image link from wherever you are hosting or you can upload to whatever Lemmy instance you’re on. I had trouble getting images to upload until I learned there was a 100kb limit on lemm.ee. It will just fail to load without providing useful error message unless your under your servers file size limit.

Very nice! What’s next on the shop build list?

No problem, I am just learning how to use it so it’s fun to try and figure these out. Some of the stuff that gets spit out is pretty entertaining too. Here were some of the failures from your printer one:

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I use Midjourney for Ai image generation. I believe it requires a subscription now, but maybe you could do a free trial and create what you need. The prompt needs to be more general than what you were describing, or you need to spend a ton of time generating images to match the description.

You could possibly just post requests on the AI communities too

Getting started: https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/quick-start

A few others: https://imgur.com/a/QBAly1j

Haha yeah it has really no idea how to make tools, but it interesting to see what the ai creates.