{"id":1361,"date":"2018-07-17T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2018-07-17T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:30:00","slug":"upgrading-a-k40-for-engraving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading a K40 for Engraving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I decided to swap my K40 controller for a GERBIL from awesome.tech. I considered the Cohesion 3D too. I&#8217;ve been using GRBL CNC controller with a few custom tweaks to the firmware for some time now but I want to see if the extra PWM resolution makes a difference. I just more familiar with the Atmel GRBL code&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/GERBIL\/IMG_1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was in there I added the Pause\/Resume\/Abort buttons. I kinda chewed up the label while drilling the button holes and the buttons just didn&#8217;t cover the mess. I printed a quick bezel to hide it and it made it look even better&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to be safe I also printed a small cone shaped washer for the toggle switch that switches between fixed and PWM control. I&#8217;ll label that later&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/GERBIL\/IMG_1014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/GERBIL\/IMG_1015.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to swap my K40 controller for a GERBIL from awesome.tech. I considered the Cohesion 3D too. I&#8217;ve been using GRBL CNC controller with a few custom tweaks to the firmware for some time now but I want to see if the extra PWM resolution makes a difference. I just more familiar with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,9,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-arduino","category-cnc","category-k40-co2-laser","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}