The boards look fantastic! I'm bummed, I was going to "throw" the sand table into the back of my jeep and drive from New York City but I have to attend the big FIRST event down in Atlanta. I think many of the folks interested in EMC will find FIRST's mission quite to their liking - we get kids involved in science, technology, engineering and math by building very complex robots in a short period of time. These aren't kits. The robots weigh about 130 pounds, don't destroy each other, require lots of innovation, machining, welding, etc. We have teams in a lot of countries but mainly the US. Check out www.usfirst.org. - Mike Dubno
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Michalski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:10 PM To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)' Subject: Re: [Emc-users] NAMES, this weekend (4/18-19, 2009) And picture boards are _nearly_ complete - just need to make the back leg so they can freely stand on their own if needed. Check 'em out, after the show I'll coordinate with Alex Joni getting the boards posted onto the linuxcnc website, and you'll be able to see the whole layouts clearly and one by one. Here's the link: http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3082.JPG Dale Grover wrote: > >SNIP< > > Some EMC supporters will have a booth (B-15, in the back) where we'll > be handing out 200 Live-CDs with EMC2, demonstrating EMC2 on a mill, > handing out flyers, and in general making folks aware of this > excellent software. > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2AtNAMES > > Jon Elson and Steve Stallings will have booths nearby. > > If you're coming to the show, we're still looking for volunteers to > be at the booth. An hour, even half an hour would be helpful and > probably even fun. Send me an email. Please if you're there and aren't running your own booth, please consider taking a short shift at the booth (tell the wife and kids they can go to the mall that's a 15min drive away and spend some money :--) ). As of the last time Dale and I corresponded I was the only other worker and can really only manage one shift a day due to my fibromyalgia. > > But, it looks like we'll have a cellular internet connection there, > so another way to help would be to monitor the EMC IRC channel during > Saturday and Sunday (9-6 and 9-4)--if there are questions people have > that folks in the booth can't answer, we may try to use IRC for quick > answers. (If you'd like to volunteer your phone number as a backup, > you can email me personally.) > > Many thanks to Marty (CDs), Greg (photos), Wayne (banner graphics), No need for thanks. It's my chance to give back to the community (though donating cash to the project would probably be better because all I'm doing is advertising more and making more work for them...). The real thanks go to (aside from the developers who've made this all possible) all the people who graciously donated their pictures and machine information for use in assembling very descriptive representations of their machines and the work the do on them. I know it's cheesy but I will probably bring a turner's cube (not internally separated though) as a display piece. > Rab ("Chips" graphic), and Bob (who will be driving my machines down). > > --Dale Quick question Dale - Will there be a laptop or other machine available for videos to be played back on? A number of the people who donated also sent me video files. I can do a quick stitch of them which we could have running in a loop at the booth. I'd offer my laptop but I can't be without it for longer than my already volunteered shift (call me greedy/needy - but actually I'll have some real work I need to do this weekend). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
