On 10/29/2014 9:47 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
This subject line caught my eye, but it's a different Mach 3:
http://www.nasa.gov/aero/the-warm-glow-of-mach3/#.VFEKydewfiE
Or how about the intro music from the 1987 DOS videogame, Mach 3?
http://www.oldskool.org/sound/pc/examples/Mach3.au
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This
On 10/29/2014 10:42 AM, p...@wpnet.us wrote:
It's a Harrison Trainer manual/CNC 280. It previously had a conversion from
it's original dead controls to Microkinetics stuff and now I'm going to
LinuxCNC with the MESA 5i25/7i76 set, retaining the MK stepper drives since
they're fine. I'm
On 10/29/2014 3:34 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
On 10/29/2014 10:58 AM, p...@wpnet.us wrote:
All insured I'm sure, just an astronomical premium increase in the works...
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I heard that companies stock took a
hit today.
I'd be bending over a trash can for a while,
According to the documentation - only partially insured. This will have a
major impact on the private couriers for NASA. (I am routing for Space-X in
the renewed space race.)
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On 10/29/2014 6:07 PM, Home wrote:
As I understand it, those are (basically) the same engines that takes the
Soyuz rockets up still.. Truth be told (I'm no expert but have seen some
articles to this effect) the Russian rocket engines where much superior to
their American counterparts such
On 10/29/2014 6:15 PM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote:
Yes, the old russian rockets are BETTER than anything the US produced, even
today. They are closed cycle. There was a very good documentary on them
not too long ago I watched but can't find it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbl_ofF3AM
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Pete Matos petefro...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay that is what I was thinking. Appreciate your advice. I am going to
pop it on ebay and try to sell it for whatever I can get for it and use
that towards the new motors and drives. I also have some other stuff here
Mark,
I actually do have some definite before and in progress pictures and
right now the machine is moved to the spot in my shop where it will live
for the duration. I have been scrubbing grease and chips off the damn
thing since I got it here and underneath the crud it looks like a nice
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Pete Matos petefro...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark,
I actually do have some definite before and in progress pictures and
right now the machine is moved to the spot in my shop where it will live
for the duration. I have been scrubbing grease and chips off the
Yes, I've been looking for a decent CNC lathe for a while. There are a lot of
really nice production type machines available cheap, however they weigh
12,000# and need 30-40HP worth of power for the spindle, hydraulic and coolant
pump motors which is a bit of a pain for a home shop. I like full
I hear ya. My machine lathe and the Cincinnati arrow I retrofit both will
be running on single phase power. The Cincinnati arrow already runs and
makes parts but the toolchanger is not working yet with the control.
Everything is wired up and working tho. The lathe retrofit is another
story it
On 30 October 2014 13:26, Pete Matos petefro...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to get them uploaded to pbotobucket or something to
show them.
Noting that you use Gmail, I think that you will find that Google
Photos is easiest.
It ties in with Google+ in some sort of unhelpful way, but try
Yeah I am pretty well against anything Google plus. tried it and it wanted
to turn my YouTube account against me and a host of other annoyances. I
turned it off which thanks to their clever attempts at corralling you into
using Everything Google was not all that simple. You know it's bad when
On 30 October 2014 14:39, Pete Matos petefro...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah I am pretty well against anything Google plus. tried it and it wanted
to turn my YouTube account against me and a host of other annoyances.
Actually, I found that was useful today.
You can't put a URL in a YouTube comment,
Eh? Google has owned YouTube for what has to be a decade by now.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Pete Matos petefro...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah I am pretty well against anything Google plus. tried it and it wanted
to turn my YouTube account against me and a host of other annoyances. I
Eh? Google has owned YouTube for what has to be a decade by now.
Yes we know... Don't get me wrong I actually enjoy google quite a bit. but
when you create a google plus account and it sorta automatically creates a
youtube account that makes you have to select which account you want to use
or
Google is like the Borg you will be assimilated resistance is
futile. ;-)
Dave
On 10/30/2014 10:08 AM, Pete Matos wrote:
Eh? Google has owned YouTube for what has to be a decade by now.
Yes we know... Don't get me wrong I actually enjoy google quite a bit. but
when you create
On 10/29/14 8:47 AM, Carsten Presser wrote:
Hi,
When trying to run pncconf from the recent buildbot debian package it
complains about missing python modules.
Those modules are missing. They should be under /var/lib/python/pncconf.
I guess the changes to pncconf are not yet reflected in the
http://theroadtothehorizon.net/photo/Google%20-%20don%27t%20be%20evil.jpg
On 10/30/2014 09:24 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
Google is like the Borg you will be assimilated resistance is
futile. ;-)
--
Kirk Wallace
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/
Death to evil google. I don't use them for anything. Yes, I have an android
phone, but I have exterminated damned near everything tied to google on it, it
can't even update anything and I like it that way.
--Original Mail--
From: Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com
To:
Am Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014 schrieb Leonardo Marsaglia:
2014-10-29 20:20 GMT-03:00 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com:
Skylon looks like it could be made to work for about 4 billion, and
the only totally new parts (heat exchanger and fuel-intercooler
scheme) have been demonstrated working.
On 30 October 2014 15:31, dr.kl...@gmx.at wrote:
Greed is a bitch - when your word view is utilitaristic you'll never make it
to Mars.
I went to a presentation on Skylon at WorldCon. The most striking
image was this:
http://www.bisbos.com/images_rel/obs_1_800.jpg
An orbital assembly station
On 10/30/2014 10:31 AM, dr.kl...@gmx.at wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014 schrieb Leonardo Marsaglia:
2014-10-29 20:20 GMT-03:00 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com:
Skylon looks like it could be made to work for about 4 billion, and
the only totally new parts (heat exchanger and
Hi,
there is an third issue I had with pncconf. Someone else already had if
bevore:
https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/issues/102
My suggested fix is to add another if-case @line 1584 in pncconf, in
function 'check_for_rt'
--
elif hal.is_userspace:
return True
--
With that
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:06:49 -0600
Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote:
Greetings LinuxCNC people, I bring you glad tidings!
One of the things we did at the recent Hackfest in Houston was creating
the 2.7 branch. We will test and stabilize the code in this branch, and
when the
There are some good reasons not to use the USB port ... latency issues
which require buffering on the control device end, noise issues, etc.
If you lived through the Mach3 Smooth Stepper USB issues you would
likely be avoiding USB.
On 30 October 2014 15:50, Cathrine Hribar bhri...@bresnan.net wrote:
Is their any chance that LCNC will be able to connect through usb port in near
future??
Interesting reading: http://doc.utwente.nl/56344/1/Korver03adequacy.pdf
Things may have changed with USB3.
The thing is that LinuxCNC
On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 19:54 -0500, Dave Cole wrote:
On 10/29/2014 5:20 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
2014-10-29 18:34 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com:
I think that Nasa should resurrect the Constellation program. Nasa
received most of the tooling required to make the Ares
On 10/30/2014 11:10 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
I was a kid in the 1960's when then President Kennedy
declared that we were going to put a man on the moon in that decade.
I don't recall any costs being discussed at that time. Nasa was fully
funded to do what needed to be done to obtain the mission.
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:11:36 +0100
From: c...@rstenpresser.de
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Problem pncconf in master (patch attached)
Hi,
there is an third issue I had with pncconf. Someone else already had if
bevore:
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:11:36 +0100
From: c...@rstenpresser.de
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Problem pncconf in master (patch attached)
Hi,
there is an third issue I had with pncconf. Someone else already had if
bevore:
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