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Wow. You really took off with this! I have so many ideas and so little time, I swear. Well, and resources at the moment, but that will change soon.

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Have time? You don't have...

Retro checking in. Sorry it has been a while. As I mentioned to you in a personal message before, I had some major things coming up in May. Most of my resources were tied up in that, but I just...

Sorry guys. I have been really really swamped with work. Haven't even had time to do anything more with my laser cutter. But I am keeping an eye on the thread and am ready to support whenever you...

When you say the motors are locked, you mean that you cannot move the stage by hand once you power on the laser cutter? Do you hear any noise coming from the steppers?

Try pushing on those...

Yep. Looks pretty clear to me what to do with it now, I think. So weird that I keep remembering seeing a video of a similar table somewhere. But it had another knob for adjustment that came out to a...

Thanks guys. I just want to be sure I don't come across as an expert when it comes to laser cutting or CNC machines (my next project and I feel like a complete noob every time I try to dip my toes in...

Look at my thread on upgrading. I pretty much decided I was replacing just about everything but the bare essentials before I even bought it. I watched for a discount before I bit, so I got mine for...

Nothing yet. I will probably just buy the automated Z table from lightobject.com for $160. That's not bad considering the time and materials required to build one.

Gotcha. No way to export them to say SVG or DXF? My original controller was the CorelDraw board, so no experience at all with the Moshi stuff.

Interesting question and one I don't know the answers to. I think once you get into using the RAMPS, you will toss the moshidraw board in the junk bin, though.I can't think of any reason you would...

Seconded. You appear to have a short from the high voltage, possibly to the case. Find it before you power it up anymore.

It says heating because you picked gcode with commands for the heaters. The firmware definitely needs some more work to ignore things like that and hide all the 3D printer stuff. My goal is to get...

Yes, they can. If you are going to use the 24V, though, you need to make some small modifications to your RAMPS board. Those modifications are listed here: equipment:buildlog_laser_cutter [Lansing...

Yeah, the Marlin firmware which is at the base of this was intended for 3D printers. So, there is bound to be left-over junk. The modified firmware looks more like a quick hack. But, it gets you up...

We'll get there. Once you have everything installed and running, we will start looking at the files to customize the firmware. That is my goal.

For now, let's just celebrate that you have lift off...

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You copied over the libraries folders correctly? I know you said you had issues with copying.

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Right before that statement you said is yellow is to include one of those libraries....

No, the r2 is the same as mine. Maybe you should try to download the Marlin firmware again and make sure you are copying over the right folders. I just tried the tutorial from scratch and it worked...

Yep. Another assumption on my part :) Windows hides extensions by default. It's there, it just isn't visible to you with your settings.

Yeah, you wouldn't be able to pick it unless the driver is working. So I think you are good there. Arduino is complaining that it doesn't recognize Uint8_t. I really think you might be using a...

Are you using the 1.0.5 version of the Arduino program? That sounds like one of the differences between versions.

BTW, neither of you have answered my question about which version of windows you are running. In order to solve any windows problems you guys are having with the steps, this is going to be important....

Also, Windows 7 sometimes has problems with Arduino. Take a look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPdSKT6KdF8

Weird. You had it working before just fine didn't you?

Go into the Arduino folder and open the Drivers folder. In there, doubleclick on dpinst-x86.exe (assuming you have a 32 bit operating...

How to take a screenshot in Windows 7:
Take a screen capture (print your screen) - Windows Help

How to extract Zip files in Windows 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwAlaEWdys

How to...

BTW, windows has built in ZIP extraction. Let's start with which version of windows do both of you have?

I have XP on my desktop, but I do have Windows 7 on a laptop and Windows 8.1 on a tablet. I...

JAVA is free. It should never ask you for money.

Could you screenshot the folder you downloaded the bits to so I can see what you are talking about?

Press ALT-PRINTSCREEN and then open PAINT and do EDIT PASTE. Or if you already have your own...

Bah! Attachment not found. THIS I wanted to see!

It appears that you are using a very restricted version of windows. If you are not logged on as administrator, it will restrict where you can save and create files. Is the zip file in your Downloads...