{"id":124,"date":"2016-09-17T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/?p=124"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:31:24","slug":"focus-and-adjustment-tools-for-the-lasersaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/2016\/09\/17\/focus-and-adjustment-tools-for-the-lasersaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus and adjustment tools for the lasersaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tldr;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:1755391\">make<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/search?q=lasersaur&amp;type=product\">buy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lasersaurs have a manual focus: you need to loosen a screw, adjust the height of the lens based on the material you&#8217;re cutting, then tighten the screw.\u00c2\u00a0 I was having some focusing problems where the lens wasn&#8217;t perfectly perpendicular with the incoming laser and the bottom of the focusing tube would clip the laser.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also not thrilled with guessing at half-the-height of 1\/4&#8243; baltic birch vs half-the-height of 1\/8&#8243; material, so I made a combination tool for setting the focus height as well as making the tube perpendicular with the bed.<\/p>\n<p>The planar tool is also good for bed alignment\/adjustment, the lens should always be the same distance from the bed at any point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tldr;\u00c2\u00a0 make or buy Lasersaurs have a manual focus: you need to loosen a screw, adjust the height of the lens based on the material you&#8217;re cutting, then tighten the screw.\u00c2\u00a0 I was having some focusing problems where the lens wasn&#8217;t perfectly perpendicular with the incoming laser and the bottom of the focusing tube would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-digifab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}