Hello,

I was born in France in 1954 (!), and spent my life in electronics, and like many electronics engineers of that time, I programmed a lot (-: the Motolola 6800, for example). I spent ~8 years outside France and have been living in Peru for 17 years now. I am now retired. I wanted to equip myself with a resin 3D printer, but the desired precision of affordable machines only corresponds to the needs of artists, it seems to me! I am exaggerating a little, but faced with this uncertainty and wanting to create technical pieces, I abandoned this idea, and preferred a machine that engraved and cut. I am very satisfied with this acquisition, because the OLM3 seems very precise. Given the lack of technical software under Linux, I “preventively” acquired a good laptop, but powered by Microsoft (Windows 11¹), while I have abandoned this system since 2004, approximately. I spent a lot of time learning a CADCAM software, whose CAM component is very unsatisfactory in my opinion. LightBurn should fill the gap between that CADCAM and OLM3 with two features: the equivalent of up to 32 layers, and the optimization of the movements of the laser head during work. I hope to adopt this software soon, which, fortunately, is still available for the Linux system, and with which I dream of no longer using this WindOverDose laptop.

My first major projects, still in progress, were to organize what I use as a workshop and which is too small, by making MDF drawers, among other works.

See you here soon, perhaps, and with a license in my pocket!

Patrick Serru

¹ I am also registered on a developer site. Most of the contributors work professionally on Windows (WindOverDose) and do it on Linux for fun. They all seem to agree that version 11 of this system is much less efficient than version 10, which itself was less efficient than 7, etc.; I even read one who wrote that Windows NT was the right version for programming! I have long considered that Macintosh (Lisa) was born 10 years early, but no, it is Windows that was born 10 years late!