{"id":771,"date":"2015-06-09T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/?p=771"},"modified":"2015-06-18T18:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:41:21","slug":"the-laser-thing-reprap-laser-sintering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"THE LASER THING :: RepRap Laser sintering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-772 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-05-19-20.09.09-e1433879720325-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-05-19 20.09.09\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-05-19-20.09.09-e1433879720325-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-05-19-20.09.09-e1433879720325-948x1685.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>A little bit more than 2 years ago, I started with designing a RepRap laser sintering machine.\u00a0At my daily work, I&#8217;m involved in designing and building laser welding machines for another purpose, so I thought it must be possible to build a laser sintering machine for the RepRap community.<\/p>\n<p>I started from scratch und designed a mechanical system, where the optical system is driven, like you can find it in laser cutting systems.<br \/>\nAfter I started co-founding the <a title=\"FabLab Winti\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fablabwinti.ch\" target=\"_blank\">FabLab Winti<\/a>, the project got delayed and I didn&#8217;t found time to invest into the development of the laser sintering machine.<br \/>\nThe design is not yet public, but I want to make it open source. Because there are still a lot of little things to develop and I&#8217;ll continue as soon as I find time. It is one of my side projects, where I put in some spare time.<\/p>\n<p>It has a working area of \u00d8100mm x 100mm.<\/p>\n<p>The electronics are a normal RAMPS 1.4, some Pololu Motordrivers, Nema 17 Motors \u2026 all you can find on a normal RepRap FFF-Printer.<\/p>\n\r<div class=\"GARD gard_advanced_mode\" id=\"google-ads-2hO7\"><script>\radUnit = document.getElementById(\"google-ads-2hO7\");\rgoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2912967267075159\";\radUnit = document.getElementById(\"google-ads-2hO7\");\radWidth = adUnit.offsetWidth;\rif ( adWidth >= 999999 ) {\r\/* GETTING THE FIRST IF OUT OF THE WAY *\/ \r} else if ( adWidth >= 468 ) {\rif (document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length > 3 ) {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"9924945823\";\rgoogle_ad_width = 468;\rgoogle_ad_height = 60;\radUnit.style.cssFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.styleFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.margin = \"\";\radUnit.style.textAlign = \"\";\radcount = document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length;\rtag = \"ad_unit_468x60_\"+adcount;\radUnit.className = adUnit.className + \" ad_unit \" + tag;\r}\r} else if ( adWidth >= 300 ) {\rif (document.querySelectorAll(\".large_skyscraper\").length > 3 ) {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"8448212620\";\rgoogle_ad_width = 300;\rgoogle_ad_height = 600;\radUnit.style.cssFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.styleFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.margin = \"\";\radUnit.style.textAlign = \"\";\radcount = document.querySelectorAll(\".large_skyscraper\").length;\rtag = \"large_skyscraper_300x600_\"+adcount;\radUnit.className = adUnit.className + \" large_skyscraper \" + tag;\r}\r} else if ( adWidth >= 160 ) {\rif (document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length > 3 ) {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"7793371424\";\rgoogle_ad_width = 160;\rgoogle_ad_height = 600;\radUnit.style.cssFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.styleFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.margin = \"\";\radUnit.style.textAlign = \"\";\radcount = document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length;\rtag = \"ad_unit_160x600_\"+adcount;\radUnit.className = adUnit.className + \" ad_unit \" + tag;\r}\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r}<\/script>\r<script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to keep the system as low cost as possible. It consists right now of a 1.5W Laser diode and some optics from Thor Labs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-773 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-05-19-20.09.51-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2014-05-19 20.09.51\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-05-19-20.09.51-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ideee.3deee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-05-19-20.09.51-948x533.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The system is as big, that it can be upgraded to a 10W CO2-Laser.<\/p>\n<p>As software I used a tweaked version of Marlin Firmware, Slic3r with a special profile and a self written post processing software. To controll the printer I used Repetierhost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the YouTube video or contact me in the Comment-Section.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to support this project and give me a little bit of freedom to work on it, you can do it with the donate button on the right side.<\/p>\n\r<div class=\"GARD gard_advanced_mode\" id=\"google-ads-uhXL\"><script>\radUnit = document.getElementById(\"google-ads-uhXL\");\rgoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2912967267075159\";\radUnit = document.getElementById(\"google-ads-uhXL\");\radWidth = adUnit.offsetWidth;\rif ( adWidth >= 999999 ) {\r\/* GETTING THE FIRST IF OUT OF THE WAY *\/ \r} else if ( adWidth >= 468 ) {\rif (document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length > 3 ) {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"9924945823\";\rgoogle_ad_width = 468;\rgoogle_ad_height = 60;\radUnit.style.cssFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.styleFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.margin = \"\";\radUnit.style.textAlign = \"\";\radcount = document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length;\rtag = \"ad_unit_468x60_\"+adcount;\radUnit.className = adUnit.className + \" ad_unit \" + tag;\r}\r} else if ( adWidth >= 300 ) {\rif (document.querySelectorAll(\".large_skyscraper\").length > 3 ) {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"8448212620\";\rgoogle_ad_width = 300;\rgoogle_ad_height = 600;\radUnit.style.cssFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.styleFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.margin = \"\";\radUnit.style.textAlign = \"\";\radcount = document.querySelectorAll(\".large_skyscraper\").length;\rtag = \"large_skyscraper_300x600_\"+adcount;\radUnit.className = adUnit.className + \" large_skyscraper \" + tag;\r}\r} else if ( adWidth >= 160 ) {\rif (document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length > 3 ) {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"7793371424\";\rgoogle_ad_width = 160;\rgoogle_ad_height = 600;\radUnit.style.cssFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.styleFloat  = \"\";\radUnit.style.margin = \"\";\radUnit.style.textAlign = \"\";\radcount = document.querySelectorAll(\".ad_unit\").length;\rtag = \"ad_unit_160x600_\"+adcount;\radUnit.className = adUnit.className + \" ad_unit \" + tag;\r}\r} else {\rgoogle_ad_slot = \"0\";\radUnit.style.display = \"none\";\r}<\/script>\r<script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XYmgpYLRLQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit more than 2 years ago, I started with designing a RepRap laser sintering machine.\u00a0At my daily work, I&#8217;m involved in designing and building laser welding machines for another purpose, so I thought it must be possible to build a laser sintering machine for the RepRap community. 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