Sponsors and Build Team
All 3 release versions LaserWeb were created and maintained by Peter van der Walt .
Want to get involved? Simple - we have a couple of Contributors on the project, who have devoted time and effort into making LaserWeb better than it was before they joined. Many of these contributors do it for nothing more than the passion of working on an open source project, and some don't even own a laser.
Through the wonder that is the global open source community, however, lack of a laser hasn't stopped them! If you follow our team on Google Plus you'll know that we sometimes go as far as having three or four people in different time zones, collaborating on code, while having someone else in the team test it out on real hardware. It has not been easy, but we won't let that stop us!
*Easy! Pick a contributor, and show them you care! *
If you sell laser machines / parts / electronics / anything remotely related - I am happy to say we'll gladly take your bribe in exchange for sticking your logo on this page and linking to your stores! We'll probably even hook up the hardware you donate and figure out how it works and add that info/specifics/settings to this Wiki! If you have any business common sense, you can see that it is a pretty good ROI out of your marketing budget (;
Don't always send it to me (@openhardwarecoza) - please also send donations / hardware to our Contributors !
Shop: http://openbuildspartstore.com/
-- Mark, as always is supporting the work I do! We are collaborating on several Open Source Hardware Projects
Shop: http://robots-everywhere.com/re_site/purchase/l-cheapo/
-- MK B donated one of their 3.5w MK3 diodes! Arrived today, can't wait to hook it up (7 April 2016)
Shop: http://www.fabcreator.com/ -- Fabcreator is going to be running their lasers off LaserWeb3
Shop: https://darklylabs.com/emblaser2/
-- We are in talks with DarklyLabs to also use LaserWeb3 with their Emblaser2 when it launches. Darklylabs is sponsoring hardware to @cinezaster to help develop the Comms layer
Shop: http://robotseed.com/index.php or http://shop.uberclock.com/products/smoothieboard
-- Arthur donated a Smoothieboard X5 to help develop the Comms layer
Shop: http://www.synthetos.com/
-- Riley donated a TinyG V8 to help develop the Comms layer
Scott Thorne for his help in aquiring a 6.5 and 2.5 watt laser diode/driver board for the new LaserWeb3 test rig.
If you have contributed anything to this project, even a single wiki entry or fixed one line of code, please add your Paypal link below: We believe in paying it forward!
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*@openhardwarecoza: If you would like to help with paying the prototyping costs, you can shoot me a donation on Paypal if you wish: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=45DXEXK9LJSWU or support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/openhardwarecoza - also, I post all personal donations on https://plus.google.com/collection/UtfYZB Alternatively you can support me by buying anything from these stores using my affiliate link: https://www.banggood.com/?p=HO1614632392201406RX
*@funinthefalls: Being the nerd that I am, I actually enjoy writing the technical documentation for LaseWeb (v1 and v2 and now v3) as well as helping out on a smoothie project with Peter van der Walt and Arthur Wolfe. I am currently building a CNC router/laser engraver based on the OpenBuilds OX design,any donations are very welcome. But a simple "good job" post recognizing the work I do would be just as good. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HMLY2MKN9XV98 (Thank you Peter for letting me post this donation link!)
*@nathanielstenzel: I have helped some with the raster image support, some code cleanup, etc. Pay Pal seems to have red tape for donation buttons, so just call it a thank you if you send me money to thank me for my work. I would gladly accept hardware like a laser diode with driver board. I could mount that on my little CNC router.
*Ariel Yahni@cojarbi: Just a happy tester having fun and learning from this guys. Donations are greatly appreciated
*Toon Nelissen @Cinezaster: I'm helping out on the communication layer, taking care that all hardware controllers talk in a unified way with laserweb. Implementing Grbl, TinyG and SmoothieBoard. I'll accept paypal donations or you can send me some hardware (parts, CO2 Lasercutter, cnc-controllers, ...).
##Build Team
Peter Van der Walt - Creator, core and user interface, tech guru extraordinaire, over worked and under paid OpenSource hardware and software developer, and all around good guy.
Ariel Yahni - Beta tester and bug hunter / new feature ideas
Toon Nelissen - Communication layers
Sebastien Mischler - STL Slicer
Nathaniel Stenzel - Intial work on Raster module
Hakan Bastedt - Massive code cleanups and speed/ram usage refactoring work
Anthony Bolgar - Documentation, beta tester and bug hunter