lars's blog

Just in time with the start of spring in northern Germany I happened to take another week of holiday for working on PyCAM again.

I started on Monday with some previously reported issues (handling of special characters and whitespace in the “recent files” list) and some involuntary easter egg process settings that were revealed only ofter some specific activities. Read more »

Da unser altes Nutenbrett eine leichte Schräglage aufwies, wurde es nun Zeit, ein neues Konzept anzuwenden. Dies sollte auch eine punktuelle Nachjustierung erlauben und somit eine höhere Präzision der Z-Achse bei großen Objekten ermöglichen. Read more »

Some days ago two more pairs of helping hands joined PyCAM’s development: Paul Bonser and John Wiggins from the ATX Hackerspace (hopefully I did not forget someone).

Quickly a lot of progress happened: Read more »

You surely know the useful commodity called trolley bag. They provide a convenient method of transporting your heavy personal things, especially if you need to walk a longer distance occacsionally.

But as with all the useful stuff, things tend to break sometimes. The usual weak points of trolley bags are probably their zippers and their wheels. These two types of failure usually turn the trolley bag into a worthless piece of junk, even if all other components continue to work well. But of course, home fabbing can save your day! Read more »

We are currently working on our [Bad Link] (Mendel). Sadly the control board that we ordered (Generation 6) was broken. Somehow it turned mad whenever we tried to home the printer. Thus we decided to manufacture a control board on our own. We took the layout files of [Bad Link] and used [Bad Link] to turn the layout into GCode for a 0.7mm end mill. These preperations were quite easy, but the final step turned out to be rather time-consuming. Read more »