Yep - I'm going to run Octopi on it and use that to drive my Creality CR-10 3D printer. I'd been interested in getting one for a while and for some of the things that I want to print (because I can sell them) I needed a bit more z than most of the other 'affordable' printers out there. Hopefully that will turn up next week.
(07-14-2017, 09:07 AM)Mayhem Wrote: [ -> ]Yep - I'm going to run Octopi on it and use that to drive my Creality CR-10 3D printer. I'd been interested in getting one for a while and for some of the things that I want to print (because I can sell them) I needed a bit more z than most of the other 'affordable' printers out there. Hopefully that will turn up next week.
A Pi can do a lot. It's just not realtime like an arduino. A lot of folks using a Pi for a 3D printer are using the Pi to drive an arduino that will actually run the steppers and handle the gcode.
Here's my Pi:
![[Image: pitop1.jpg]](http://metalshop.nobucks.net/pix/pitop1.jpg)
![[Image: pitop2.jpg]](http://metalshop.nobucks.net/pix/pitop2.jpg)
It sits next to my mill and I use it when I need to make any kind of calculations the Google Home isn't set up to do, like that cutting speed app you posted recently. The screen's about 13" color.
(07-14-2017, 10:11 AM)Vinny Wrote: [ -> ]A Pi can do a lot. It's just not realtime like an arduino.
Yup, Arduino is definitely better for bit banging.
Ed
The Post man delivered this great little Moore & Wright 1/2" micrometer today. It reads in tenths, and appears to be unused. Came in a fitted clamshell type glasses case along with the original box. Judging by the age of the box and paperwork, I would think its from the 1950's or 60's; anyway Happy Day !
Nice little mic, Mike.
It does have that 50's look and the fact it is Imperial and made in England supports that theory.
Tom
Cutest little thing, about the size of my watch. My kind of bling, think I'll hang it on a big gold chain. Been playing with it all day driving my Wife crazy.
Nice score Mike. Gorgeous little tool.
Ed
I have what I think is a 1" version of that same mic, in the glasses case and all. It was a gift (hand-me-down) from my wife's grandfather around 25 years ago, he was in his nineties at the time. He was a ship's engineer in the British merchant navy before, and during, the second world war and I would have thought the mic was from that era.
Very nice. Reminds me a lot of my Lufkin 1" mic I bought used in '74 from a San Diego pawn shop for $25.00.
Lufkin made nice tools, lifetime keepers for sure. I've also got an old 1" Moore & Wright mic.. It looks like its been through the wars as its pretty rough on the outside, but works smooth as silk internally; looked so ugly I had to give it a touch of my favourite green paint. Here is a side by side comparison photo. The 1" is a Model 965, and the 1/2" mic. is a Model 933 B, the B indicating it having a tenths scale; in case anyone wants to look for one.