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Dutch State increases funding for deep state Hexastorm

A project log for prism laser scanner

bringing additive manufacturing to the next level

hexastormHexastorm 07/15/2021 at 15:000 Comments

NWO grants around 250K euro's funding to AMSystems in Takeoff 2 financing. As said,
AMSystems works on an earlier version of Hexastorm which uses a plurality of lasers per prism.
The idea is that these systems have increased throughput.
There are multiple issues with this technology. As you can see in the image below.

The laser spots are not uniform.  This can be seen directly.   They have not the same power and are "elliptical".
The copper elements is used for water cooling. The screws are used for "aligning" the laser.  Back in 2017, they planned to fix alignment with a robot.  They actually build a robot but I guess they will build a new one.


I have recently ordered 40 pieces of prisms and plan to start selling mounted prism on mirror motors online soon.
This allows makers around the world to build their own "deep tech" and "deep state" open hardware laser scanner,

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