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  1. slow-poke

    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

    MESA is a reputable company, we were using their FPGA cards going back at least 15 years for a product we developed. If you're not familiar with FPGAs they are a pretty cool technology. Unlike a microprocessor that processes a sequence of instructions one instruction at a time and some...
  2. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    I have only had one experience 4 wheelin with a truck. My buddy had what I would call a monster truck hopped up big block in a F150? with huge tires. We were going along a ditch and we came to this swamp. He shook his head a bit and said I don't know. Backed up a way to get a running start and...
  3. slow-poke

    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

    That's a complicated hal file compared to mine!
  4. slow-poke

    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

    When watching the video he often references ladder logic. IMO just ignore any reference to ladder logic I didn't apply to anything I did. Two important tid bits: 1) Typically you start with one of the configurators that has selections for all the normal things like how many axis, how many limit...
  5. slow-poke

    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

    Qtdragon Is that one of the standard GUIs you can select during the install? I do like the look of it. I'm using Axis on both machines and trying the other GUIs is further down my todo list. HAL and ini files look intimidating but there actually your best friend when you understand how they...
  6. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    Hmmm... I know a guy..... That paddled a canoe 6000 miles around the Gulf of Mexico and was never seasick not even once, swells > 10' very common. Then took a freighter from Belem to Gulfport and puked his guts out daily. My wife had a Sienna, none of us ever had any issues it was very...
  7. slow-poke

    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

    Yes, it's a bit daunting BUT usually there is a solution that you are in control of that lets you customize your system to do what you want it to do. That's what I like about it.
  8. slow-poke

    Car designs suck

    I had a similar experience. Back in the late 70s-early 80's (high school). I had a job installing car stereos. We did about 70% of our business with dealers for brand new cars. Customer wants am/fm cassette and the car only has an am we pick it up pull the old one and install a factory...
  9. slow-poke

    Sitting Car

    Agreed not likely with just a starter. Usually happens when a head gasket leaks allowing coolant into the cylinder. Top fuel there is so much fuel being introduced to the cylinder if it fails to ignite, next time around the rod is going to bend. Those 11,000HP engines consume 22 gallons for a...
  10. slow-poke

    Really ?

    Software doesn't break. That's not to say software can't have bugs that may or may not have been exposed yet. That a software update can't introduce a bug that breaks something that was working. The important point is if you have fully tested bug free code, it can't break. The hardware can...
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