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LayerOne hacker conference this weekend!

arcli...@gmail.com (Arclight) — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:25:30 UT

Hi all,

If anyone wants an excuse to drive down to L.A. this weekend, the Layer One
hacker con is starting tonight and going through Sunday.

There's also going to be an after-party at 23b Shop on Sunday.

Details:

[link]

Sneak peek at the badge:

[link]

Re: [synshop] Delta!

k...@thcnet.net (Krux) — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:12:05 UT

Nope... Sarah was first.. Her deltas got posted two or three weeks back.
perl -e 's==UBER?=+y[:-o]}(;->\n{q-yp- y+k}?print:??;-p#)'
Did you get your delta on adafruit before Sarah? ;)
--BillT
bi...@synshop.org
Nice! :)
Thanks for pointing that out!
Mark
Looks like Mark got posted on Adafruit!

Re: [synshop] Delta!

m...@synshop.org (Mark J Koch) — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:32 UT

Hmmm.... not sure. I think there was something on hers a few weeks
ago. Her goggles have regularly been featured though.

Mark

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*Syn Shop* :: The Las Vegas Hackerspace
SynShop.org <[link]>

Re: [synshop] Delta!

bi...@synshop.org (Bil Tomiyasu) — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:47:02 UT

Did you get your delta on adafruit before Sarah? ;)

--BillT
bi...@synshop.org

Re: [synshop] Delta!

amor...@gmail.com (Andrew Morrow) — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:43:29 UT

Yes, congrats. No comment on the test pattern whatsoever.

Re: [synshop] Delta!

m...@synshop.org (Mark J Koch) — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:06 UT

Nice! :)

Thanks for pointing that out!

Mark

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*Syn Shop* :: The Las Vegas Hackerspace
SynShop.org <[link]>

Delta!

k...@thcnet.net — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:29 UT

Looks like Mark got posted on Adafruit!

[link]

perl -e 's==UBER?=+y[:-o]}(;->\n{q-yp- y+k}?print:??;-p#)'

Re: [synshop] Re: Book Scanner

aa...@synshop.org (Aakin Patel) — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:40:25 UT

We already have members who are there just for one tool. If they are
willing to be active members of the shop, I don't see a problem with it.

- Aakin

Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

charliexwall...@gmail.com (charlie wallace) — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:23 UT

The eagle one works pretty well ,but its really suboptimal paths it
generates, but then our $15,000 PCB mill also generates poor gcode paths
too. There are a few gcode optimisers around but the problems is when you
amplify, you amplify the noise too. I'm still looking at options for that.
I'd be curious to see what else people have come up with,

Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

josh.w.h...@gmail.com (Joshua Hahn) — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:41:17 UT

There is a script for eagle cad that spits out g-code. I used it for a while. Works well.

Josh

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Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

charliexwall...@gmail.com (charlie wallace) — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:01:28 UT

basically writing it from scratch.

Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

bi...@synshop.org (Bill Tomiyasu) — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:56:39 UT

Looks interesting. What are you using for the the software workflow? You mentioned trying to integrate a custom solution.

--BillT
bi...@synshop.org

Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

charliexwall...@gmail.com (charlie wallace) — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:44:19 UT

I figured it'd be low, its OK for a basic PCB mill and it'll do a lot of
things, but its also something you can improve on later.

I'm taking one of these which i picked up off eBay cheap.

[link]

Replacing the parallel port step interface with a USB/grbl variant and
updating the spindle, added limit switches etc. Its not a bad little

Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

bi...@synshop.org (Bill Tomiyasu) — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:23:48 UT

We don't really need the 4th axis. It was just a comment about the bare bones nature of the mill. The frame, though it's made of MakerSlide, isn't all that rigid. Othermill is probably more precise because of the smaller build area. Here's the link to their website and product info. Spindle speed is 12,000rpm.

Re: [synshop] PCB Mill Kickstarter

charliexwall...@gmail.com (charlie wallace) — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:02:13 UT

The mac isn't really much of a supported platform outside of its its niche,
its also not something you'd really see a lot of in CNC rooms outside of
maker labs, so its good someones doing it. but that is hard too because
people get really attached to their CAD/CAM/CAE GUI

If you need 4th axis, there are grbl variations that support it, plus its