Pragmatism in code

We are all doomedIn a recent discussion on social media relating to the acceptance of AI, anti-AI sentiment and what has been described as AI derangement syndrome, it made me think about what the road ahead might look like for AI, and more specifically humanity. As the headings and title suggests, things might look a little shady, there may be...

PCB LayoutAfter stripping down the controller I’ve settled on a path forwards with the replacement design. Top of the list is getting all of the components mounted up within the same space. Thsi is important as the old main board is enclosed within a steel housingm located at the rear of the main enclosure, which provides protection whaever else is...

CarveyI’ve long been a follower of the desktop CNC scene and was pretty impressed when the Inventibles Carvey was released. It was a very professional looking machine greatly different to the typical CNC routers made from bolt together extrusions. It’s most appealing features were the enclosed workspace and simple workflow, similar to the Sienci MillOne in that it placed importance...

A dilemma…If you’ve been following my work you will probably know about the DIY Flow Bench project. This is an open source software / hardware device that measures volumetric air flow and is used in applications like automotive cylinder head development. I created the project back in 2018 after having had the idea for some time. Since then I have...

UPDATE:Tim added an additional field in his plugin that lets you specify exactly which G-codes are used as end marks. This allowed me to easily remove the M5 command without needing to edit the source code. In addition to this Tims is now detecting whether spaces are present in the generated output files. If spaces are found it retains them,...

##It all starts ith an idea…I had an idea to create a WiFi pendant using an MPG jog-wheel, axis and speed selectors in a pendant with it’s own ESP32 controller. I figured that it would probably be trivial enough to squeeze an ESP32 into one of those cheap MPG pendants you can buy on ebay. It can then communicate via...

If you’ve been following my recent posts on building a new improved Sienci MillOne you may recall that I wanted to experiment with using an ESP32 board rather than the Arduino UNO / Rasberry Pi setup that I already had set up.Well after some experimentation I now have the MillOne running under ESP32 control.Setting up the Protoneer CNC Shield was...