So excited!! Infinitely better than the original Maslow that was already Kick-Ass by the way. Looking forward to making with the new Maslow 4. Looks like it's getting better everyday. Thanks Maslow team.
It's getting better every day and it's going to keep getting better faster and faster now that they are out in the world and we're getting feedback and advice!
Honestly doesn't seem too bad! Would you need to calibrate again when using materials of different thickness? Also, I noticed you rotating the sled once it found the first point. Was that just to speed things up as it found the proper rotation? Last questions as a combo: what affects the fit statistic? Like how can you improve it beyond 0.7 and would you need to for anything?
Nope, you only need to re-run the calibration process if the location of the anchor points changes...like if you take the frame apart and put it back together or something. It's not too bad, but it could be so much easier and faster 😀. I rotated the sled because I like the way it looks that way :p...it doesn't really do anything. The fit statistic is impacted by all kinds of things, but the next big one that we need to take into account is the flex of the frame and stretch of the belts. We're assuming that everything is perfectly rigid right now and we know for a fact that's not true. We've played around with factoring those in and seen big improvements, we just need to find the time to fully implement it.
@@maslowcnc It seems to me that is more important - to - making the calibration more accurate -- than worrying about speed/ease of calibration since its only done once. Maybe make another change to the config file to allow a lower number of points for your calibration, if someone wants the speed it up but doesn't care as much about preciseness of calibration. Thanks again your entire open process from updating everyone to videos has been great!
Hi, great stuff! I have two questions: 1. Would it take a laser head like the maker made? And 2. Does Maslow4 have a relais to switch cutters like routers or lasers on and off? Cheers and keep up the good work!🤟
Nice! I can definitely see that the Yaml file could be edited to include your 3000 x 2000 values by default in the future! Other than editting the Yaml, this is A VERY short step from automated calibration!
For now we should be able to save multiple config files if we have more than one frame. I hope you will keep this flexibly if you integrate the values in the app where we could choose a frame to use or edit.
That is a big advantage of the way it's done now. I think that we would always keep the option to download the config file, we would just like to have the ability to edit it directly from within the user interface automatically too.
Exactly what I was thinking! This is a very juicy low hanging fruit for a dev. I'm sure Bar is aware. Plus the long pause could probably be taken care of with some asynch transfer/processing. Lots of easy and impactful improvements this early!
Yeah, I agree. There is a lot of things that are a bad user experience right now. When thinking about which issues to solve first we prioritize solving the issues which are potentially show stopping issues first and then work to refine them. For example to my knowledge nobody has ever solved the automatic calibration process like this before so we focused on getting the math to work first. If the math wasn't possible then we would be in trouble. @SaintSaint is right, there is a lot of impactful improvements available this early and @LdHrothgar is right if even one other person works on the firmware we've doubled our work force so our goal is to get it out there as quickly as possible in the most basic form that works and then improve on it quickly.
Can you make a video talking about ALL the software from the get go, as if I am familiar with none of it? An overview of all the software I will need? (not the setup or use yet)
Maslow4 works with gcode files which are an industry standard so there are literally thousands of programs that it can work with. We will absolutely make walk through videos for a few of our favorites.
@@maslowcnc well.. I guess we can assume one would use easel? Do you have other open source equivelents you would reccomend? What is the name of the name of the control software? (like, Im using webcontrol right now)
@@dontbeI've been using Carbide Create which is nice, but maybe not worth paying for. There is a list of options that we've started compiling here www.maslowcnc.com/software-guide
Which 2d nesting software do you recommend. For info. Free Opencutlist extension on sketchup can do nesting and dxf output. That's what i use for cabinet manufacturing
Totally a great option. I went with the two chains originally to keep it simple and there is something to be said for that. The advantage with the belts is that you get about 3x faster cutting and much better performance in the lower corners of the sheet
