Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "" video.

@WatchWesWork better the devil you know than the one you don't. Yours does have a nice patina too.
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That style wire brush isn't easy to get any more. They used to sell them at Harbor Freight but they don't carry them anymore. I'm down to my last one here.
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@WatchWesWork LinuxCNC and GRBL have different philosophical approaches. Those choices do affect end user experience. GRBL wanted to be cheap and easy. LinuxCNC has more of a barrier of entry. But once you're in you can potentially go further. I'm a fan of LinuxCNC but I'd be lying if I said it was easy to setup. They have a live image you can fool around with. It runs in simulation mode. The image has the latency test. That's something you're going to have to contend with if you go for LinuxCNC.
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Everything is just so expensive anymore. $70 for a solenoid valve seems kind of high to me.
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Most folks know who Christ was. Although his cowboy phase is less well known. He did disappear for a number of years in his life. Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
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@WatchWesWork LinuxCNC and GRBL both do the same thing but the projects have different goals and ways of achieving them. Both of those plans are going to create limits. The LinuxCNC team are enthusiasts. They're all fans of the original goals too. That's what got them into it in the first place. So they're not going to want to change those things. I haven't hung out with the devs in a while. I think a lot of them aren't as involved as they once were.
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@WatchWesWork LinuxCNC has a new interface called Touchy. The original goal of LinuxCNC was just to get NIST EMC running on Linux. If you don't like the parallel port you can drop the support yourself. It's easy not to build code. Personally I run on the parallel port open loop step/dir software stepping. It isn't a limiting factor for me. LinuxCNC can generate about 4X the pulse stream I can actually use. So I'm good with it.
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You can do it but it's a lot bigger project than is easily done. I use a controller that a team has been working on for decades now. The zip file for the project is 111 megabytes. That's a lot of coding. Unzipped it's 341 megabytes. So it's nothing anyone is going to do in a weekend.
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Spindle CNC machines are basically like extruders in that they both have axis. But after that the similarities end. CNC uses a machine controller. The machine controller parses G-Code and they all have a slightly different dialect. The commends they understand. As you may well imagine if you think about it extruding and running a spindle can be very different tasks.
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You wouldn't know it looking at a screen but typical computer fonts are outline fonts. The font engine just colors in between the lines. A CNC machine won't do that though. I'll just cut the outline. Now there are special single line fonts available. But they are not standard. It's a little gotcha with CNC. But sometimes I like the double line effect myself. Normally when you're cutting letters you're going to be cutting a large point size. So the outline is very obvious. Although I've plotted some pretty tiny letters. Sometimes I use my CNC machine just as a plotter. I have a pen holder head I made for plotting. The best pens for that are cheap disposable ballpoints. I've tried using fancier pens. Like Pilot Precise. Cheap ballpoints are where it's at.
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