{"id":885,"date":"2017-07-15T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T21:19:53","slug":"k40-whisperer-k40-cheap-chinese-laser-control-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/k40-whisperer-k40-cheap-chinese-laser-control-software\/","title":{"rendered":"K40 Whisperer&ndash; K40 (Cheap Chinese Laser) Control Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of reverse engineering I am happy to announce that the initial version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/K40whisperer\/k40whisperer.html\">K40 Whisperer<\/a> is available for download under the GPL License.\u00a0 K40 Whisperer is software written to interpret SVG and DXF data and in turn communicate the design information to the K40 Laser Cutter (using the stock M2 Nano Controller board).\u00a0 This software is essentially a replacement for the Laser Draw (LaserDRW) software that comes with the stock K40 laser.\u00a0 When using K40 Whisperer the USB key that is required for Laser Draw is not required.\u00a0 The initial release only supports the M2 version of the K40 controller board.\u00a0 If I can get other K40 owners to test with other versions of the controller board future versions will support more board versions.<\/p>\n<p>K40 Whisperer has been tested with Windows (XP, Vista and 10) and Linux.\u00a0 It should also work on a modern MAC computer, although this has not been tested.\u00a0 Full instructions for setting up K40 Whisperer are available on the K40 Whisperer web page.\u00a0 Linux instructions have not yet been written.<\/p>\n<p>K40 Whisperer attempts to solve some of the basic problems with Laser Draw such as the difficulty with properly scaling designs and combining engraving and cutting on one work piece.\u00a0 A previous attempt at solving these problems was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/LaserDRW_extension\/laserdrw_extension.html\">Laser Draw Inkscape Extension<\/a> which allows users to send data from Inkscape to Laser Draw.\u00a0 This Inkscape extension is also available on the Scorch Works web page.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a screen video providing an overview of the operation of K40 Whisperer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEUJQFAEDcE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of reverse engineering I am happy to announce that the initial version of..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}