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#Colorado - #Libraries and the ‘economy of sharing’
An ode to the palace of the people
By Kaylee Harter - Apr. 9, 2025
"Visit one of BPL’s #makerspaces, a feature that’s become a staple in many libraries, and you can use #3DPrinters, #looms, #LaserCutters, #ScreenPrinting equipment and more.
" 'It’s a collaborative learning environment,' Farnan says. 'We’re learning together. If you were to go into the makerspace today and ask, like, ‘I’m thinking about doing this,’ then they would say, ‘I don’t know how to do that, but let’s figure it out.’
" 'That is inherently resilient.'
"He recalls a blind artist who came in with a unique challenge: 'She wanted to be able to see her drawings.'
" 'They worked with her with 3D printers, with the laser cutters and that kind of thing, in order to transfer her drawings into dimensional objects, because they were abstractions, so that she could then see them with her fingers.'
"Despite the always expanding array of programming and services, the books themselves — and literacy for all ages — are ever important."
https://boulderweekly.com/special-editions/libraries-and-the-economy-of-sharing/
#SharingEconomy #CircularEconomy #LibrariesRule #LibraryOfThings #MakerSpace #BuildingCommunity #Accessibility #SolarPunkSunday #BoulderCO
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Join @ishotjr and a panel of special guests 🚨 TONIGHT!!! 🚨 as we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital #fabrication tools for your #workshop, from #LaserCutters to #3Dprinters to #CNC machines! Register now for our V92 #LaunchParty! 🥳
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Join @ishotjr and a panel of special guests TOMORROW as we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital #fabrication tools for your #workshop, from #LaserCutters to #3Dprinters to #CNC machines! Register now for our V92 #LaunchParty! 🥳
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Join @ishotjr and a panel of special guests as we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital #fabrication tools for your #workshop, from #LaserCutters to #3Dprinters to #CNC machines! Register now for our Thursday, February 20th V92 #LaunchParty! 🥳
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Someone at our makerspace is struggling with the laser cutter, and it's a problem I've never run into before, I've never seen anything like it - so I thought I'd ask here and check if anyone has any clues.
They're trying to make boxes using this box generator: https://boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de The box shapes export as SVGs.
The laser cutter is a HPC LS3060 with 50W CO2 laser, connected to the makerspace laptop with a USB cable.
And the laser cutter software is Lightburn on Windows. The files end in ".lbrn2".
Basically, everything looks perfect in Lightburn, including in preview. But when they go to cut, even when each individual shape is in a different layer, the laser will put extra cuts in or randomly move off at a strange angle and make cuts that aren't in the Lightburn file. (See photos of errors attached.)
Have you ever seen anything like this? If so, did you ever work out the cause?
Edit: FIXED! We emailed the people who sold us the laser cutter, and they suggested we check whether our makerspace member was "streaming" the cutting from the laptop with the controls in Lightburn, or if they were sending the file to the laser cutter first and then directly cutting from the laser cutter UI. The member was "streaming" it from the laptop (pressing "start" in Lightburn on the laptop), which apparently can cause these kinds of problems. When they switched to sending the file to the laser cutter and pressing "start" on the laser cutter buttons, it fixed the problem completely and instantly. :)