Making hardware: first you torture it, then you ship it

https://medium.com/engineering-at-formlabs/making-the-form-2-first-you-torture-it-then-you-ship-it-cd41e5379ef6

by dogichow • 11 years ago

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mr_sagui• 11 years ago

That's a lot of testing.

bostonbot• 11 years ago

Making your own galvos is a huge feat. High quality ones used for laser cutting or etching can cost up to $2k each. I'm guessing they must have needed to hire someone with a background in this area.

hagridman• 11 years ago

Not sure if they needed super high quality galvos since the ones they used in the Form 1 were cheap Chinese light show ones. Still impressive to figure out all the magnetics etc. I wonder if the scanners or laser power are speed limiting for the machine.

cypriend• 11 years ago

so we went ahead and put a fully assembled Form 2 in a dust chamber for 6 hours.

I am looking forward to see prints from sahara desert too. LP

dogichow• 11 years ago

We took the inspiration from Markus Kayser who built the solar sinter :) One of my favorite projects.

http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/

Making hardware: first you torture it, then you ship it

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