CNC Table

Objectives: Select the best affordable XYZ system. I would like to end up with a system that can do plasma cutting, routing(including pcb’s, and 3D printing. Software system Cost est. $0-$100 Considerations: linuxCNC.org (EMC) Mach3 machsupport.com, windows only, $175 Microcontroller (arduino) based g-code translator to step/direction (see reprap) Control, Drive, power supply and motors Cost …

ACPI Fan Problem After Suspend to Ram on Ubuntu 10.10

This is just a summary of my trials in solving this problem on my new laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 Description of problem: When I would close the laptop which would put it into suspend mode, and then open it up later to resume the fan would run at a high and annoyingly loud speed for …

Fixing sound loss problem with youtube on ubuntu

I got this info from this website: http://www.ivankristianto.com/os/ubuntu/tips-solving-ubuntu-sound-problem-without-restart/440/ Here are the condensed steps. 1. Open your shell and find all process that currently using sound with this command: lsof | grep pcm 2. After you get all proceess with the proceess id, kill all that process with this command: kill -9 3. Restart ALSA (Advanced …

Open source software to check out…

Here are a few open source programs that look promising. I’ll try to add comments as I try them out. rosegarden – midi software fluidsynth – midi blender 3D – 3D animation software stopmotion – stopmotion video creator ardour2 – audio production hydrogen – drum machine

Helpfull Linux Commands and Info

These are some quick references to commands that I use more or less frequently. These are not complete explanations by any means, please check the official documentation for details on usage. This is more of a quick reference / memory jogging reference. wget -r -nH –cut-dirs=5 ftp://username:password@195.168.1.2//rbb/rbbro/graphics/reference -r recursive, The slash after the hostname so …

Freedom??

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” -Gerald Ford “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” -Thomas Jefferson