On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Ed Nisley wrote: >About 50 people showed up for my "Why CNC? An Introduction" >talk at Cabin Fever Expo, perhaps ten snuck out early, and >about two dozen hung around afterward for the demo. I think >a good time was had by all: the presenter wasn't injured >during the after-game melee. > :)
>I made a botch of the demo by not telling my assistant (my >daughter) which parallel port I used for the motor >controller, then fumbling around for far too long figuring >that out. However, the crowd learned how Things Go Wrong >and that problems can be fixed with the help of some >friends; my thanks to the guy who noticed that the box >had -two- parallel ports. After moving the cable, the pace >of the festivities picked right up. > >I don't know who was wielding the video camera, but >there -is- a recording. Given the dim lighting, I'm >probably just a blur, so if someone could extract the audio >track, turn it into an MP3, perhaps add slide-change beeps >(I think I can do that), and put it next to the PDF of my >slides, that would be better. > >The PDF is at > >http://members.localnet.com/~ednisley/CNC%20Introduction.pdf > >where it will stay until that account closes in February. If >anyone has a better spot, feel free to shuffle the file as >needed. Thanks Ed, I 'wget'd it, but I have no servers here. Against TOS for vz customers. Port 80 is also specifically blocked even if vz won't admit it as that would be a violation of their 'common carrier' status donchaknow, but I occasionally can be seen on port 85 which seems to be un-assigned. <http://gene.homelinux.net:85> might get there at times. Humm, started httpd, but got a 503, selinux won't allow the port 85 connect by privoxy/squid. Nastygram to the selinux list is in order I think. Sooo, check back later. >Our van's mass air flow sensor died on I-81 near Harrisburg >on Friday night, so I spend Saturday afternoon & Sunday >morning diagnosing & fixing that, rather than exhibiting my >toys & yakking with the CNC folks at the show as planned. >Swapping a MAF sensor in the Advance Auto Parts parking lot >at 19 degrees with a 20-mph breeze is -not- my idea of a >good time. The folks at the Toyota dealership confirmed my >already low opinion of Toyota's personnel, but I heroically >suppressed my urge to urinate in their Mr. Coffee. That would take considerable effort on my part too. >My daughter was enchanted by the craftsmanship on display at >the Expo and gained an appreciation of what's required to >produce -perfect- work instead of doing just enough to get >by. Truly, those engines are jewelry, not machinery! > >Thanks to all of you folks for -your- craftsmanship in EMC, >which made my presentation possible. I hope I showed it in >a good light and got a few people started on the CNC path. Thanks Ed, even if I didn't make it to the show. Probably just as well, as my highly hacked & big table micromill would probably be looked at as a piece of junk, but it carves stuff accurately enough to have made some of its own pieces for a much improved Z axis drive. With the newer drive I can actually use emc to drill holes, where it couldn't muster the downforce on the drill bit before due to head sled binding on its ultra short gibs. Using EMC of course! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy. -- Evelyn E. Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
