In at 6 this am and have hit a good stopping point.

Tomorrow. Tear it all down do final welds grind and paint reassemble. Will start the z too.

Sunday finish z.

Monday start wiring.

Torn Down

Stone Shaping

08 21 2011

Stone is not mounted just sitting there back together though.

Trying to figure out what you did to the stone :)

I cut it and ground a flat spot..

Aha! :)  OK, I thought there was something I was missing.  Looks good, looks like you busted weekend ass, nice work!

08 25 2011

3 weeks 3axes

Cow 2.5 d

That’s fantastic!!

08 29 2011

Larry called last night… Due to the buzz that’s been generated from our printouts we left him he is going to clean out his studio space on the first floor and set us up in there. Tv is a go etc. He was super stoked about what we were doing. He said the 5th would be ideal I didn’t have a chance to tell him that was labor day. I’ll touch base with him Friday to solidify a time.

Good!  If anything catches on fire we’ll be right next to the exhaust port!

Brushes. I am thinking #2

I’ll send some drawings

Cool

Back door

All the gear stuffed in the pedastal

08 30 2011

see attached, 200 assembled drawings, no edits… some tweaks pending … not to mention a review between the two of us…

There’s some funny stuff in there! That’s great! are you in the office? tried calling.

yah! just leaving

Just calling to see if you were coming…

Is it running?

I jsut got home for dinner I am going back. just have solder motor wires. And wire the home/limit switches up. All the connections on the controller and computer side are done. I powered it up and all the led are on. the computer booted up to.  I can let you know for sure at midnight but I am pretty confident it will be running in the am.

Hehe take your time I made plans for tomorrow … when its going we’ll remote dialog … give you time to tune … then decide about me coming there Friday or you coming here.  I have some to do list for you software side.

Ha!! I am still heading back out

All soundsgood

09 02 2011

Looks like there must be fires in Omaha etc… I will finish everything up today install software get switches working and I’ll just come up to Omaha early on TUesday. So don’t worry about coming down here.

Good and Bad
Bad… emc reads ahead… no way to generate gcode on the fly so far as I can tell … need to look into it more.

Good… as long as the drawings are made in advance works great… I will send details later.

Hmm that is bummer.

I’ll dig around too. Knowing how the ai works gives me toms of ideas for primitives

Primitives me too… a week wasn’t enough time… remember my ray tracing comment … will send photos and summary in a bit.

The real review
OK, finally time to get away.

We’re OK for the show as-is.  I need to generate several hundred drawings and load them onto the sumitron.  Sumitron will queue them up at random, keeping a log of what’s been painted in order to avoid duplication.

To be honest I’m more concerned with the longer term impacts resulting from the inability to generate AI style gcode within emc.  I’m sure we can resolve the issue but it is a concern.

As for the show, I say we just fudge a little bit and say they are as we intended.  The result is the same.

I did about 4 or 5 drawings after determining the trouble… I was getting 30+ inches of brush travel.  The drawings go fast.  Some minor quibbles with level in the drawing “pan”.  closer to the back of the machine and if you’re standing behind it to the right is maybe 1/8″ higher than the opposite away and left from back.  Pretty god damn close for eye balling it.

Hmmm, what else.. oh yeah before I figured out that emc wouldnt read generated gcode in loop I had already determined that the matter was ill fated — the fractal based backgrounds were taking over 2 minutes to generate on that old pc.  i hacked it to dumb them down but actually i’m glad it will paint the higher quality “canned” drawings.

bottom line enjoy some r&r and see you tuesday i;ll be ready.  And we definitely need that extra weight on the wood axis enclosure.

Very good I can tweak the table… Have lots of ideas I am on the belt wagon with you. See you Tuesday with everything complete etc.

It’s AI as far as I am concerned. Got my haircut thursday ran into a programer guy from the old days. He said I read your building a new machine. Didn’t ask him where he read it…

09 05 2011

Done…

See you in the am 10ish… I’ll call when I leave Lincoln.
Bringing cards
Pedestals
monitor kybd etc.
Network cable
UPS

Any thing else???

09 07 2011

I think I have things dialed in.  Got the scaling issue fixed with INI file changes.  Am on my 2nd “real” drawing.  Going to punch out as many as I can, clean up and take pix.

That is great news!!!! Thanks for the update!

and some notes…  everything is cool, i left instructions and labeled the machine switch with a bit of blue tape.  did 14 drawings nd machine is loaded for 30 more or so.  tweaked a few speeds, etc etc now all we do is wait.  honestly, i think it looks good.  i think larry is happy.

hope you are back on your feet – time to start on the SF ptg!!!!