I added a 10.3" X 4" touchscreen attached on the front of my laser. I purchased the screen on Amazon 10.3’’ Small Touchscreen Monitor.
I then moved the laser window and the move window to this screen. The windows come up on the small screen where they were last left when I launch Lightburn. It makes controlling Lightburn from in front of the laser much easier.
Note - you can connect the screen via USB C and the screen / touch works with the supplied cable when connected directly into the computer, however, when I used a longer USB C cable I needed to connect the supplied power supply. If you purchase a new (longer) USB C cable, make sure it supports video. Not all USB C cables support this capability
I don’t think there is a way to control the button sizes, but it would make things much easier if the buttons got bigger when you made the window bigger. It works fine now
It was pretty simple. The screen was plug and play. Make sure you connect the included power supply. I would do it even if I used the included cable. It will avoid unanticipated behavior. I purchased the one with the kickstand and two mounting holes.
You then dedock the screens you want to move and put them on the smaller screen.
The only problem with installing it on my Ikier 70W laser with the enclosure is that I had to disconnect the front panel and drill two mounting holes. I was not able to connect the mount for the laser to the enclosure on the right hand front side. Everything is pretty stable without that mount being connected.
I have three lasers mounted in the same cabinet (they were taking up too much space in my workshop). The screen works with all three lasers. I have not tried running multiple copies of lightburn at the same time. The screens would overlap but when the focus was changed to another laser the screens would come to the front. You just need to be careful about what laser you are talking to. That is a problem with any implementation using multiple lasers running at the same time.
I wish they would allow you to assign a different color to the screen background depending on what laser you are connected to. That would make multiple lasers much easer.
