so mal wieder ein bisschen aufraeumen. ​http://camgeeks.de/ wird umgebaut.

• Die Infopage und Inhalte werden hier bei der Raumfahrtagentur mit eingepflegt -> zB MaschinenPark
• Der CNC-Planet bleibt alleine unter ​http://camgeeks.de/
• Die Heeks CAD Packages sind hier ​https://m21.hyte.de/downloads/heekscad/

An old copy of the board-game "Sagaland" has lost its figures over the time and will be a wonderful present with these replacements:

Three plywood layers and a leather-binding. To be enhanced with a small magnet to keep the case well shut while it's closed ...

since lasering an early prototype in plywood for the ​Milkymist One interactive VJ Station i've been busy:

adding labels, modifying the mechanical concept and sourcing some really nice looking acrylic materials, as well as some metal spacers.

i just finished the first complete acryllic one and it looks really neat.

actually its much more wine-red than the cam photo.

according to ​http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ i think the correct color is: 'purple, plum, magenta, maroon'

i got it labeled as'violet, transparent'.

the next one will be something more blue.

if everything goes as planned, i will have some of these on the 27C3.

please contact me^* before, if you already know you want one, so i can plan ahead.

ps: do you want wooden ones as well?

^{* = send mail to}

this is a 'usb keyboard' with 16 buttons

made with vim, avr, qcad and gcc :)

after quite some absence, i've revisited heekcad.

not only due to public demand here at raumfahrtagentur, but also due to the still existing problem of 'using different cad tools will do weird things with my files' - i rebuilt heekscad and heekscnc and its libs.

what changed in the last half year?

• pycam got replaced by opencam.
• loads of bugs fixed (seemingly, feels more solid)
• new features with new bugs added :)
• a ton of stuff i havent mentioned..

the packages seems to work for me so far, please test and report your experiences.

these are packages for ubuntu karmic (9.10) x86

​https://m21.hyte.de/downloads/heekscad/ubuntu_9.10_2010-09-10/

and for ubuntu lucid (10.04) x86

​https://m21.hyte.de/downloads/heekscad/ubuntu_10.04_2010-09-11/

if you don't know heekscad, take a look at the nice new ​website

updated: added packages for lucid

first it there suddenly was a stencil...

... and then the leftovers made for a nice real-world flattrbutton :)

Wir haben einen neuen Extruderkopf fuer unseren RapStrap.

Ein gebrauchter Kopf von einem Shapercube ist heute zusammen mit 4,5kg ABS (weiss) eingetroffen.

• ​http://wiki.shapercube.com/wagn/Extruder_1_1

Fuer die ABS Rolle kommt aus dem Laser noch eine passende Halterung:

• ​http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1163

....

its lazzoring!

the machine still needs some more alignment. some parts were not lasered through completely and needed some work with the cutter to come out.

put it on thingieverse, gismo!

Update: ​http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1521

since quite some codechanges happend in the last few months, i built some fresh ubuntu packages.

since we don't have any 8.10 and 9.04 boxes around anymore i will only do 8.04 and 9.10 builds from now on.

get them from ​http://yamato.hyte.de/packages/heeks/

in case you haven't heard of heekscad, take a look ​http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/

the plugin for generating a cnc toolpath is called heekscnc ​http://code.google.com/p/heekscnc/

one more sensor:

a true spindle-speed rpm meter, which measures the 'is' and not only displays the 'should'

more details in the wiki: Maschinen/CncFräse/SpindleMeter

this is a video from our fellow hacker werner in argentina who added conductive probing and crash-avoidance to his mill.

aufgrund des vorhandenseins von guenstigen endlosencodern in der sammlung und der flexibilitiaet von emc2 hal gibt es jetzt feed-override, spindle-override, einen gelben fuer die stepsize und 3 axen zum 'elektronisch direkt anfassen'

die axen pots sind default disabled. dafuer gibts das haeckchen fuer jog rechts in der ui von emc2