Simply reflashing the smoothieboard with the latest firmware caused the PWM to start working correctly. Quite an anticlimactic result considering i picked up a new Rigol scope to troubleshoot the issue!
As seen, a 0-100% duty cycle reflected correctly on both the scope and the observed intensity of the laser.
Here’s a quick video of the kit cutting up some dense 1/2″ open cell foam.
I am still trial-and-erroring the focal depth of the laser. Right now it takes 5-6 passes to cut all the way through the foam. It starts around 12mm off the bed and moves down 1mm per layer. This is pretty dense foam though.
For basic shapes like circles for these marbles I’m simply creating a cylinder in Google Sketchup, exporting it to cura, generating the gcode, and then manually editing the gcode in Notepad++.
Trying to get on a client’s VPN today via the Cisco AnyConnect VPN software presented a problem this morning. The process for connecting would freeze on “Hostscan is waiting for the next scan”. After some quick googling I found that the client (my laptop) was possibly attempting to send all of the personal SSL cerficiates the client currently has to the server for inspection(?).
Fiddler creates dozens of certificates when intercepting web traffic during debugging. Since Fiddler uses a man in the middle attack to intercept HTTPS traffic, it has to create certificates for each site you browse. After a few hours of developing (and having other browsers on your computer open), these certificates can clog up the pipe to the VPN server when the client tries to send all of them. Another possible reason is the Cisco VPN server isn’t liking the self signed certificates but doesn’t know how to fail gracefully.
Opening up certmgr.msc and clearing out all of the Certificates > Personal > Certificates allowed me to connect again.
This isn’t a perfect/permanent fix, but hopefully it’ll help!
