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<div>I did not receive the two emails before this one, still oddness, maybe it's my accout.</div>
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<div>There is a mini mill at the hackspace now? Cool, will it be able to mill PCBs?</div>
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<div>I really want to get up to date on membership and start coming again, this saturday hopefully.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 8px; ">No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.</span><br>
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<div>From: Graham Owens <grahamowensuk@googlemail.com></div>
<div>Date:16/09/2014 09:16 (GMT+00:00) </div>
<div>To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace@swansea.hackspace.org.uk></div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] An old PC with parallel printer port? </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Justin,
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<div>Modern drive electronics are fine, but I would not be very happy running it without a host PC for the time being until we could talk over the safety aspects of doing so.</div>
<div>Unlike the 3d printer that will make some noise to complain about someone getting their hand in the wrong place, the mill can do some serious damage - so the ability to preview, view the cuts as they are happening and most importantly emergency stopping
need to be dealt with first if we were to move away from linuxcnc.</div>
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<div>I can bring in my PC so that we can see how its setup, but I can only leave it there for a week as I use it for my other machines.</div>
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<div>PS, if anyone mentions running it with Mach3, the offending party will be liable to abuse of the type normally reserved for new recruits in stanley kubricks Full Metal Jacket. :D</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On 16 September 2014 08:50, Justin Mitchell <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:justin@discordia.org.uk" target="_blank">justin@discordia.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span class="">On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 08:24 +0100, Graham Owens wrote:<br>
> Hi guys, does anyone have on old pc with a parallel printer port they<br>
> are willing to donate/loan to the 'space for running the mini mill?<br>
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</span>Any other requirements?<br>
ie what do you drive it from, linuxcnc ? or something more arcane ?<br>
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and have you considered an upgrade to a modern controller board like a<br>
RAMPS ? ;)<br>
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(ie something that accepts gcode instead of needing the host machine to<br>
do the timing)<br>
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