In the previous post, I continued my adventure in creating a clamp for my vise. I drilled three holes through the long part of the L, and then proceeded to mill around the resulting long hole. This time, I went very slowly, perhaps 0.001″ per second, sometimes a bit faster. This time I didn’t chip [...]
I’m not a very social person, by which I mean that I don’t know a whole lot about the people I interact with, because I don’t ask. Some have told me that it’s because deep down, I’m not really interested in people. But that’s not true: I just have this social blind spot. I will [...]
So the cut-off disk that I mentioned in the previous post stood up to cutting through several inches of 1/4″ angle iron. The angle iron that I bought from Home Depot was “weldable steel”. There were lots of sparks of red-hot bits of metal flying, and eye-protection was a must. The next step after cutting [...]
Problem #1: I can’t get Mach 3 to generate just one pulse on a keypress, or to go faster or slower when manually moving the axes. Solution #1: Get a jog dial. Shown on the right is a Z-Bot Jog Dial II from Little Machine Shop (US$89.99). It is a USB device, and comes with [...]
I’ve been working with genetic programming on and off since the early 90′s. I haven’t done anything with respect to research, but I have played with GP for various problems. Occasionally I’ve played with image processing in GP, and recently I’ve gotten interested in applying GP to the DIY Book Scanner dewarp problem. I don’t [...]
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