OpenExposer

And here it is! Today our manufacturer delivered a first prototype of the Open Exposer Arduino shield. I am at the hospital at the moment, but hopefully i can leave this friday. When i am back at home i will solder it! Keep on reading...

Yesterday i made some breakout boards for a laser driver ic ( IC-HKB ) from ic-haus.de

This small part will replace the self made laser driver which was based on the die4drive

laser diode driver. The IC-HKB supports laser switching for frequencies from CW up to 155 MHz.

When the laser driver is working, we will design a shield with all the needed controlling units on it.

We are planing to release an open exposer DIY kit next year.

Of course i will bring the Open Exposer project to Berlins first Maker Faire on 3th and 4th of October. You can find this project at the booth of "Freie Maker".

Today i had the time to test the Open Exposer flex vat. And i can proudly announce that it is working. With the flex vat there is no need for a vat tilt mechanism anymore. It it also much easier to clean the vat and change the vat foil. Thanks to @Moritz for his great vat design files!

It is time now to work on better print results. The first task is writing a new Slicer for the Open Exposer.

First of all, special thanks to @Moritz for sharing his Flex vat files. Last weekend i made a modification of the original fep-vat files which @Moritz provides at GitHub. Here are some pictures of my modification for the Open Exposer.

And finally here a short Youtube video where i tested the vat tension.

I will do a print test with the new FEP-Vat this weekend.

I will bring the Open Exposer project to the ccc camp.

Thank you for visiting me at our booth. The Maker Faire in Hannover was a big success.

See you in at Maker Faire in Berlin.

Last weekend i presented the current version of Open Exposer at the Maker Faire in Hannover.

Hello all,

i am going to visit this years Bay Area Maker Faire. If anybody is there and wants to discuss/talk about projects and other cool stuff, write me an email (you'll find my email address by following some links here :) ) or tweet @l_k3.

I am also planing to have a beer at https://hackaday.io/event/5599-bay-area-maker-faire-after-party

See you there.

Today printed a small cube with open exposer. This is the first print which is higher than 1-2mm. I was able to reproduce the result.