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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Small Change to Mach3 main screen needed

« on: December 24, 2011, 08:29:45 AM »

Nice one Russ!

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some new toys for my Taig

« on: December 24, 2011, 08:25:51 AM »

Good morning, fellas, and thank you for the very kind words - 

Tweaks, no sir, the USB/Serial controller is "piggybacked" to the LCD so the whole assembly and the Shuttle would be tied together into one cable.

I've been learning a few things from a fella over at the Vectric forum, and he's helping me to use a very small USB hub to go inside the pendant casing, but it's going to be tricky as I do not have a "lot" of room in there. I'm also a good solderer, but I've got a shaking problem and I've lost my "touch" so to speak. It'll be a challenge for sure trying to work with these super small contacts 

I'll keep you posted!

Russ, my friend, I'm sorry, no Xmas gifts made from CNC this year, all store bought this time around. What's sad is that I did a make a friend a plaque for his dog on my wood router but it turned into a nightmare and scrapped it. That's what I get for not taking those baby steps first! As for York, it doesn't look good as my daughter can not drive (issues) and I have to take her to work everyday and unfortunately she's working that whole weekend. It's killing me as I'd absolutely love to get down there even if it's just to meet a few of you guys.

Thanks again, and Happy Holidays!
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some new toys for my Taig

« on: December 23, 2011, 01:39:08 PM »

Would anyone happen to know if I can wire the LCD and the shuttle pro 2 together at the pendant and then run one cord to the PC? Or is this too much voltage.

I have the pdf's for the controller and and the LCD, but not sure what the Shuttle is as I can only find an owners manual, not a spec sheet on voltage.

I'm able to run them together using a passive hub into one USB port on the controller, but do passive hubs have any special circuitry?

Thanks,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Milling letters/design on arched face surface

« on: December 23, 2011, 12:48:45 PM »

Glad to be of help, fellas- 

Hope it works out for you-

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some new toys for my Taig

« on: December 23, 2011, 12:47:42 PM »

Thanks, Tweaks, that means a lot coming from you- 

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some new toys for my Taig

« on: December 23, 2011, 10:22:25 AM »

more pics..........

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some new toys for my Taig

« on: December 23, 2011, 10:17:59 AM »

Hi, all, thought I should post up some pics of the pendant I'm working on (continuously!. This a combination LCD/Shuttle Pro 2 pendant that I've cobbled together so I can have best of both worlds in one unit.

It's made of 2 halves from HDPE topped with a layer of engraving sheet (traffolite for Tweaks) with a faux brushed steel .010 cap to engrave through. I loaded a screenshot of the button assembly which after that was milled out, I had to saw a slot between each button "finger" loose, so that it would be independent from the button next to it when activated.  So far, so good and this will be conected to my controller cart...... whenever I get done with that  

Thanks,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Happy Holidays!!!

« on: December 23, 2011, 06:53:57 AM »

A warm Happy Holidays to you and yours as well, my friend, and to all the good folks here on the forum.

Cheers!
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Milling letters/design on arched face surface

« on: December 23, 2011, 06:52:30 AM »

Possibly this may be of help to you?

http://paulrowntree.weebly.com/warpdriver.html

This is a program written by Paul Rowntree who is a member of the Vectric forum.

Definitely worth a look at-

Hope that helps-
Dave 

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Sometimes it's the quick and easy ones......

« on: December 22, 2011, 10:01:13 AM »

Good to know Sam, 

Thanks,
Dave