Practical? Effective? Reliable? Have you been able to use Maslow 4 for several projects?

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Has your build of Maslow 4 resulted in a demonstrated ability to cut multiple projects? I’m especially interested in Super-User experience (such as Bar or Anna). Once you have the system put together and calibrated, have you been able to successfully complete multiple projects?

I had a few issues during assembly that were associated with friction in the belts. Once I had extended/retracted them a few times, they worked better. My first project cut beautifully for about an hour until the router bit came loose. On the second try, it lost communications. On the third attempt, it failed and then couldn’t re-connect with WiFi. Looking for a troubleshooting approach, I found many unsolved issues with other users. It made me wonder, does the 4.1 design work for anyone?

If you have used Maslow as a platform with consistent success, please reply here with your experience to boost my confidence that continued troubleshooting might get me to a practical tool. Thanks,

Mike Hogan

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I think that reliability needs to be our biggest focus for the foreseeable future. We’ve passed the “is it possible for a machine like this to work” threshold and now we need to focus on making it work reliably.

I know that I found a bug last week where a particular bit of gcode would cause the machine to crash consistently so there are absolutely still bugs out there.

In terms of debugging connection issues, the first place to start is the blue light. Is it blinking? If so the machine is connected to the wifi, if not it should be creating a “Maslow” wifi network to connect to.

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I have done several projects. Sometimes they just work and other times there is a coaxing.

My latest hack is learning to hand edit .nc files. If the machine quits, you can delete a good portion of your completed work.

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