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Laser Micromachining Project
McMaster Biophotonics Research Group
McMaster University

Participants
Liam Ward: wardw1@mcmaster.ca
Jacob Saunders: saundj1@mcmaster.ca
Qiyin Fang: qfang@mcmaster.ca
Harold Haugen: haugenh@mcmaster.ca

Description (Summer 2020)

The current goals of the project include: designing and implementing a control system to update the current outdated control system. The new control system will provide a user-friendly GUI to run on a Windows(7+) Operating System. This GUI will send commands to an Arduino-based hardware interface to control various hardware devices. A supplementary goal of the project is to first develop a simple GUI to control the Fiber Laser System.

Important Links

Link	Description
https://github.com/liamward14/Laser-Micromachining-GUI	Current Github Repo (Sapphire Laser)
https://liamward14.github.io/Laser-Micromachining-GUI/	Published Github Project Site
https://github.com/liamward14/Fiber-Laser-GUI	Github Repo for Fiber Laser

Files

File	Description
micromachining_manual_20101206.pdf	MICROMACHINING MANUAL_20101206
micromachining_experimental_setup_connections.pdf	MICROMACHINING EXPERIMENTAL SETUP CONNECTIONS

Progress / Updates

This section is meant to describe how the control system is to be implemented and provide a section to document updates.

Updates

Date	Update Description	Associated Files
6-10-2020	Created high-level control system for translation stages:{x,y,z}	See image 'Translation Stage Only Diagram' below
6-10-2020	Created preliminary high-level control system for entire system (not finished yet)	See image 'Control System Diagram' below