Oct9 at 00.23, looked at an iss tracker and it didn’t looked like it was flying above at all, but all the trackers i quickly checked frustrated me and i might have wrong info. Can it be something else? Bright and moving slow.
More specifically, to unknown instagramers with 20likes per post? I’m doing a bike trip in Lofoten in 2 weeks and the PEN would be a great upgrade from my EP7, it will be a real test not someone talking in a room on yt. I need the most those custom modes to switch shooting from day to auroras at night, the switch is a real pain on EP7. The ND filters should also be handy for waterfalls. The waterproofness is not a concern to me, i experimented this summer with submerging my sony underwater in a food ziplock bag and a uv filter stick to the bag in front of the lens.
Is anyone working on a native M app for macs or is this another afterthought software?
Hi, i’m planning a bicycle trip in Lofoten in 2-3 weeks and i was staying comfortable till now when i wanted to book tickets. Surprise, my flight change in Oslo involves 2 different airports. What are my options to get from one to the other? If there’s a direct option, moving myself with a 40kg packed bike and luggage is a huge pain. Thanks!
This literally never worked properly for me since its existence, multiple computers, multiple xcodes, that’s why i never use it, first thing i do in a new project is to hide the preview column. But today i wanted to and it pissed me off. First, if it works, i basically wait for the whole app to compile, then i either get an error, either the preview. I change something, i wait again for the whole app to compile, actually i can launch the app faster than i wait for the preview to come with a result or an error. It is freaking slow and it barely works, sometimes.
So i got my makera and instead cutting aluminum i’m writing a new studio app, which is quite exciting, called Stratum CNC. I hope that one day i can replace the official app and i’m not forced to suspend the app from running when not in use due to very high cpu usage. So far nothing is really working or stable and ready to distribute, but i wanted to get some feedback on what people need, since i’m new to cnc.
Something that i think i will need from the controller is to control the spindle position manually and run a hole or thread macro without me going into cad. I even added a gamecontroller for this (i think i saw also here another app doing that and bought myself a semi defective controller for cheap just for that). I also want a timeline of the job to scrub through and see at any point how the tool progresses.
In the CAM section i have only 2d semi working so far, i managed to import also 3d but parsing that model is another thing and not sure when and how i’ll do it. I can also generate gcode that i’m certain it is not complete and safe to run right now. But it can generate code for incomplete loops lol.
The tool lib will of course import from external sources and edit whatever you want. The materials lib is even more interesting cause you can add round materials or even disks. The other day i cut a hdd disk and i mostly guessed the position. The old 3.5 hdds use aluminum disks and you can make nice mirrors from it.
All you can see here moves like butter btw.
The app is still not ready for contributions but if you plan to, please take a look at the code and come with suggestions, i’m still laying out the architecture and UI. https://github.com/cristibaluta/Stratum-CNC
From an antiques market for 1eur, it sits perfectly between 4 screws, but i need to work on the clamping surface, i don’t know what was designed for. The easiest idea would be to remove the top inwards part and add a sacrificial layer of plastic at the bottom, then there’s enough space to clamp a small stock material that will sit on the plastic. Do you have better ideas?
I noticed on a longer mill, like 30min that the inside got hotter. All this time i thought that the back vent is taking out the air from the machine, but now i realised it’s just for the electronics. That would be bad anyway to take the air out without replacing it. Then the spindle vent is recirculating the air it seems.
Do you run it with the lid closed or open? I’m considering to keep it open now, just need to make sure an eventual broken bit will not fly across the room in my face
Hi, beginner here, some time ago i was perplexed about the absurd amount of money jlc&co will ask for small gears and stuff, if they even want to do them, now i have my own desktop cnc and i do them myself, i can afford even countless mistakes.
I want to do the 3 channels with a round bit because they’ll hold springs and don’t want to fly away from one side. Can i do the contour with a flat bit then the channels with a round bit? The only way i can think of is to change the model so the cam can see the real contour, but i would prefer to do from cam on this model if possible. Mostly as a learning experience. I’m using MakeraStudio but i can try also Fusion
Given the atrocious state of cam/controller softwares on mac (performance and ui), i decided to try my luck to see how far i can get. Would be nice to make the entire studio, but i’ll be happy with just the controller and then use the cam from fusion. The controller has some functionality working already, all the commands from makera wiki are defined and ready to use, but i cannot send the nc to the cnc or preview the toolpaths yet. What bothers me the most is the 5 step quiz to start the job and that some settings are not even preserved. The cam is even worse how much scrolling you need to do and how much info is hidden.
Tested also the community app but that is not much better either, when you resize the window the whole ui stretches…
It will be opensource if someone interested to contribute.
Anyone got this error when enabling the z probing? Any trick to make it work? When touching with the finger not always gives signs of life, it’s like only in some positions does. When probing, the laser works so cable is not a problem. I’m using the default one that comes preinstalled.
With this occasion i also broke my preferred bit, the standard 3.175. At some point i got tired of trying and i inserted the ‘dumb’ probe that came in the box. The problem was that my piece of aluminum was anodized and not conduct electricity, when it came to probe it, it wanted to push hard so i stopped it. I didn’t wanted to try the big fat probe because i didn’t knew how it works. Then i put back the broken probe but the program continued where it left off and went directly to probe the material. When i put the bit i think it had the wrong z and it went deep into the material, the very thin tip remained there and spindle stopped. I didn’t wanted to throw it away so i started from scratch, this time the probe worked, the milling though started to do an awful sound that my neighbours heard it for sure. The piece ended up not according to specs of course, so it was a wasted time.
I stupidly upgraded to 26.6 after all the apple nagging and surprise, my icons reload very often, i can see all of them how they reload one by one taking 1-2sec when i open the phone or switch screens at the very least. Is this the case for you? It was not for me before this update. 15pro
This was after i made a mess all over the machine, i will need to clean that somehow, i am most worried about the ones getting into the rails.
Bonus, i put a masking tape also at the bottom of the material so after the contour the piece doesn’t fly, no need for tabs.
Hi, so i already know i can use 2D projections for this and it works well, however i want to understand the 3D pockets. To do this hole in software i simply chose the wall of the hole and used a bit smaller than the hole. What happens is that it’s doing one pass in the hole then instead going down to do the next pass it goes up and does a lot more passes at the starting Z. Only then goes back to do the next pass in the hole. It is doing this for every pass wasting 90% of the time for nothing. This also shows in the CAM but i didn’t realise it till now and i don’t know how to remove it. Is this expected behavior?
Hope it’s ok for one last spam for today. First, i’m utterly impressed with the noise of the Z1, at least for what i’m milling, i was making all kind of plans on how to reduce it to not disturb the neighbours, but no, it’s dead silent, i cannot really hear it behind a wall, i could run it even at night. An iphone app measured 66db near it, 40-50 being the normal noise level here, which is like no noise at all, no car traffic no nothing.
Back to my problem, this is the first piece i did, i’m trying to replicate the plastic part from the right. There’s only one problem, the 3 simetric round pockets are actually not round. They should have a diameter of 3mm and i’ve used a 2mm bit. I didn’t pay attention to what it did, could be that it didn’t even try to do it. Why do you think it did that? The settings used for this operation were default cause i rushed, for the other features i put manually a 0.1mm Step Over, this is 1.26.
I’m also a bit confused about the finishing, each hole has like a finishing pass which i didn’t ask for and you can see all those circles.
I need to mill it because i don't have such a drilling bit, but as you can see in the second screenshot the toolpath stops where the bigger hole ended, although the object selected for this operation was he small hole. The software seems to autodetect the bottom and i cannot even choose myself the depth.
Last night apple got on my nerves, i was trying to add a short screen recording before submitting an app update.
This were the steps:
- record screen with cmd+shift+5 and a random crop, just to test to get an error about the resolution, because the specs are not in your face and need to dig in
- got the error, video must be 1920x1080
- surprise, my mbp16 has less resolution, research how to do it though because it’s ridiculous to need a bigger screen for this, received all kind of useless advices by AI&co then i went to system settings and saw that i have a higher res setting. Now i could select a 1920x1080 crop when recording
- said and done, upload the video, again resolution error. I look in finder and my video is actually 3000px and something not 1920.
- research how to resize it. I had already handbrake installed, converted to 1080p with it. Surprise, the horizontal is 1928 or smth, can’t upload this.
Not being willing to install any tool i tried quicktime. It worked, it scaled down to the correct res
- upload to apple. Your stpd video has no sound, try again
- research on how to add sound, install ffmpeg and add sound
- upload to apple. Your stpd video is in the wrong frame rate
- abandoned the whole thing, submitted the app without video and went to bed
What do you use to make appstore videos?
When i was a kid i always wanted a digital cassette player, but they were way too expensive, and instead i tried to convert one myself and actually managed to do the play part, but in the end i broke the hole thing. I bought this for 12eur. I knew it’s broken, but i’m in disbelief of what i’m seeing here and the previous attempts to fix it, they even put a screw inside the power port when assembling back. When i saw the buttons not making any click i was afraid the whole board is missing, or the buttons being placed on a separate board, but beside the belt and the actual buttons nothing seems to be missing. The motor seems to touch something and the 2 brass wheels have a tiny movement. There’s no sign of life when i insert the battery, i accept any advice you might have, it’s the first time trying to fix one.
This is a flex cable made by me, but i wrongly made it too short. Since i had 5 copies i thought i’m gonna sacrifice one to extend the other one. I scraped the protection layer, put solder on both cables, joined them one in the continuation of the other overlapping a bit but no matter how hard i tried i couldn’t join the solder from one cable to the other, the height of the cable was the only gap between them. After one hour of tries i had a revelation, i completely overlapped, like folding, so now applying heat in the area will join the solder since they stay face to face. Then i folded the cable and now i have a longer and working cable. Even better would have been to scrap the cable on the opposite side so i don’t need to fold it.
I need to do the same for a usbc with 24 pins, the pads are a bit bigger but i feel i’ll have the same problem not being able to deposit enough solder, any advice on how to do this? Unfortunately i cannot do the same trick since the layout will not match if flipped.
I replaced the thermal pads and heatsink on my camera with thermal paste and a different heatsink close to the cpu/gpu. First try i think it worked really well because everything was hot, but the board was slightly bent because of the screws placed on the sides and cpu in the middle. So i rebuilt it (this was not the only reason) and now the gap is visible, 0.2mm from my approximations, partly because of my measurements, partly because of the cnc tolerances. The board doesn’t bent but i feel it doesn’t transfer well the heat either, this is just a feeling, i don’t have proper measurements with before and after, same conditions and stuff. I cannot apply pressure on the cpu, i need to mill the threaded boss till the cpu aligns perfectly with the heatsink, but not sure for how much perfection should i aim for and i’m afraid to not go overboard either, i don’t want to use spacers afterwards.