<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">After only 9 days of being fixed, the laser head was knocked against something hard and the laser went out of alignment. We had just paid $2500 to get it back up: $1800 for the new tube and $700 for a tech to come and install it. Luckily some laser trainers were able to get this fixed yesterday without cost (shoutout to Analog, Dany, David, Carl).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>To prevent further breakages we are going to:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Improve our safety training to ask people to be vigilant, not only of their own lasering but also asking others questions when they are operating the laser in a questionable way.</div><div><br></div><div>2) Start a mailing list of trained users so that we can send announcements and have discussions within the smaller laser community</div><div><br></div><div>3) Change the password on the laser cutter computer regularly (and inform the mailing list). <b>We will change the password for the first time on November 11, so you have a month to get retrained.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Upcoming trainings:</div><div>1pm and 5pm at the Stupid Hackathon next Saturday Oct 19</div><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397559/">https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397559/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397563/">https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397563/</a><br></div><div>Evenings of Sunday Oct 27 and Monday Oct 28</div><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265440605/">https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265440605/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265440626/">https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265440626/</a><br></div><div>David will schedule an additional training sometime this month, date TBD.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Also, if you can spare it without hardship, please go to <a href="http://donate.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">donate.noisebridge.net</a> and donate some money.</b> Put the word 'laser' in your name so we know it's for the laser cutter. I've just put in $100. The laser cutter has enabled so many cool projects and drawn so many people to Noisebridge. The laser fund is about dry after the tube replacement, and it would be good to have extra money for replacement parts (mirror, clean room grade chemicals for cleaning, etc.).</div></div><div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Ruth</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 3:02 PM Alex (Merlin) Glow <<a href="mailto:alex.glowaski@gmail.com" target="_blank">alex.glowaski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Badass! Thx Ruth and co!!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:22 PM Ruth Grace Wong <<a href="mailto:ruthgracewong@gmail.com" target="_blank">ruthgracewong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">After 2 months, we've gotten the broken tube upgraded to 150W!! Hurrah!!!<div><br></div><div><b>Note that you shouldn't go over 55% power to prolong the life of the new tube.</b> So you probably won't be able to cut wood or MDF thicker than 1/4 inch. <b>We have not retested all the materials yet, so please try 50% less power than normal to test and work your way up.</b></div><div><br></div><div>I'm running two laser safety trainings during the Stupid Hackathon on October 19th:</div><div>1pm training <a href="https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397559/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397559/</a></div><div>5pm training <a href="https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397563/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/265397563/</a></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.noisebridge.net/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.noisebridge.net/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<div>she/her</div><div>diy electronics and more <span style="font-size:12.8px">☆ <a href="http://alexglow.com" target="_blank">alexglow.com</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small">my favorite hardware projects </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">☆</span><span style="font-size:small"> </span><a href="http://hackster.io/alexs-faves" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">hackster.io/alexs-faves</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>