Hello World

Just testing out the png_to_gcode generator I've put up on github at https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/tree/main/png_to_gcode and thought you might get a kick out of the "Hello World" I did with it to get my eye back in after a long absence. The points are on a 30μm grid, and Hello World takes 43 pixels, so that's [does maths] 1290μm - about 1.3mm in smug units, 5 one hundredths of an inch in Bronze Age units.

"Hello World" about 1.3mm wide

 

I did bend the etched tip and will have to make a new one, so I don't feel so bad about using the bent one to chisel away a layer of Sharpie marker in these tests. It actually worked well despite the kink, and I'm experimenting with it some more. Stopping the probe tip 10μm above the surface and lowering slowly the rest of the way definitely improves output quality.