Hats off to you Scott! I have waited for this resurrection hoping for a rebirth! If not for you and the users here my pro would still be DEAD!
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Scott, when I first purchased and began to use my overpriced Glowforge Pro, I made some similar comments about the machine on a Glowforge forum and promptly got TRASHED for my comments. My comments alluded to the poor quality of the machine and some of its faults, and people were screaming at me for saying such blasphemous things. I was a Universal M-300 owner for over 15 years, so I acutally do know a lot about laser engraving/cutting. I simply got the Glowforge to work on smaller non-production projects. Big mistake.
Thank you for all your effort, Scott. I will be reading though all of the posting here on your site and try to clean up this mess of a machine. In the meantime, I will soon be purchsing a better small non-production machine.
Ed Newbold
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I’m a developer and would love to assist if I can. I have a few ideas on how to open this thing up and get rid of the cloud. For instance trying to use a local DNS server to redirect the device to my own server assuming I can figure out security, and then just installing a Raspberry Pi Zero W inside that would serve the rendering service and the open source front end, complete with a suite of tools that Glowforge has the nerve to charge a premium for. I don’t have any experience writing firmware for a device like this (other than embedded platforms like Arduino and ESP32). Most of my career is full stack web development. But I would love to attempt to lend a hand.
I feel like this would be possible, still. I am very motivated to do so if I can get my current device working. Could give existing devices some more life, at least. Might encourage me to eventually just build my own, realistically.