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by danshapiro 11y ago
The best part of this is that you can output the gears as SVGs. For example, gear + Glowforge = http://community.glowforge.com/t/gears/143/4
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Gear Generator(geargenerator.com)
150 points by danshapiro 11y ago|31 comments
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by danshapiro 11y ago
(Glowforge CEO/cofounder here) Glowforge has enough horsepower to work offline if someone built the custom firmware, albeit without the features that differentiate it from a traditional CNC laser cutter/engraver. We started out th
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by danshapiro 11y ago
I cut (engraved?) my teeth on the laser at Metrix - love to get them one at some point soon, but it'll be after preorder campaign is over I'm afraid. We'll be at the Geekwire event next week if you'd like to check it ou
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by danshapiro 11y ago
It's a custom glass DC tube with some cool engineering to improve the mode quality to TEM00, which gives us tighter spot size / higher power density. Similar effect to cranking up the power, except you also get tighter kerf and yo
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Due to the excellent suggestions here, in large part. Thanks for the feedback, both positive and critical.
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Glowforge does have both air assist and purge air FYI.
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Cofounder/CEO here, just finished with Makercon and catching up. The Glowforge does require a cloud connection to operate. We use cloud vs. local a host of reasons including the motion planner, alignment, image recognition, and faster
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Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware(glowforge.com)
279 points by danshapiro 11y ago|53 comments
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Yes. Actually both intake and exhaust fans. Both of those are under software control, so they only run at the speed required for the job. Then the $500 air filter option has its own internal fans to assist with air, also under software cont
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by danshapiro 11y ago
(founder/CEO here) I vented a 60W chinese laser out my window for a year in the suburbs, but I've learned never to underestimate what neighbors may complain complain about. The air filter is definitely a good idea. If you do the m
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by danshapiro 11y ago
(ceo/cofounder here) You're right - it's the passthrough. CDRH is very strict about what could count as human access. We have some clever interlocks in place around the passthrough but if an examiner can place a mirror in the
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by danshapiro 11y ago
(cofounder/ceo here) I don't remember which sample items we made on which model, but everything you see is printable on the basic model. For example, the monitor stand and dollhouse don't have pieces larger than 12x20.
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by danshapiro 11y ago
(ceo/cofounder here) There are lots of folks doing bathymetric maps with lasers; I don't know who was first to it. We generated ours from scratch from NOAA data, but owe them (or whoever did it first) a debt of inspiration.
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by danshapiro 11y ago
CEO/Founder of Glowforge here. There are a bunch of lasers billed as 40W on ebay and amazon, but please look really carefully before you buy one. The mostly-harmless part is the lousy interface, overrated tube, and inability to cut (th
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by danshapiro 11y ago
(cofounder here) Thank you! I was lucky enough to have an industrial laser in my garage for a few years and was amazed at what it could do, and how miserably hard it was to do it. Hopefully we'll let lots of folks experience the first
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The random number generator of DOOM(github.com)
115 points by danshapiro 11y ago|74 comments
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by danshapiro 11y ago
I was a beta user, and am now a paying customer. I was skeptical when I started using the product; I've been hiring for nearly two decades and figured that the company's algorithm wasn't going to be able to improve on my expe
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Provably unique scarves ship with source code(kickstarter.com)
25 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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Seattle Startup Tests Ways to Attract Under-Represented Applicants(xconomy.com)
1 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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Startup CEO Imposter (from Hot Seat: Startup CEO Guidebook)(medium.com)
2 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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Glowforge Completed Its Series A with an Investor We Never Met(glowforge.com)
1 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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Angel will only invest in companies with female founders(money.cnn.com)
2 points by danshapiro 11y ago|1 comments
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Glowforge founder here - we haven't announced specs as we're still fine tuning and they might change a bit, but this will be capable of cutting material 1/4" thick.
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Glowforge gets $9M from Makerbot vets to build a laser cutter(xconomy.com)
5 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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Seattle’s Glowforge Is Building a Maker Machine to Challenge Amazon Prime(techcrunch.com)
3 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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A technical comparison of open source drone autopilots (2012)(online.qmags.com)
67 points by danshapiro 11y ago|8 comments
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Cockney rhyming slang(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by danshapiro 11y ago|2 comments
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by danshapiro 12y ago
I'm curious about the hiring breakdown: - Dog already, don't want another - No dog, don't want one - Want a(nother) dog
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by danshapiro 12y ago
I hear you. As we set out to design the Glowforge, we did not make the decision lightly to engineer it as a network-native device. It makes the experience better in many ways - lower cost, more powerful, and easier to use - but the flip sid

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