GearHeads Corner

The mini gerbil is $80 usd, that's not so bad in comparison to the cohesion3d board which is $199 usd. The K40 is a totally different laser with the new board in it...

You're right, I was looking at the super gerbil.  C3D's really raised its prices, think my prototype board was around a hundred bucks.  The original controllers seem more designed to keep the other guys from copying them than to see what they could get out of the amazingly cheap (last time I looked, pre CV, they were $300US delivered) K40s.

If chamnit finds the time to make the official 32bit grbl releasable expect a wave of sub $40 32 bit boards like the E3 mini.  Seems like there's a use for all those smartphones after all (besides increasing EMS and hospital income when they walk around staring at them), made high power MCUs super cheap and less than the 328 based controllers.  Didn't seem that long ago when a AT90USB1280 Printrboard was $140...

Kirk

I hear what your saying, but you know how it is Profit before anything sensible. Makes me remember the Ferengi in StarTrek... Yes I am that OLD lol...

I watched the original star trek when it was new, although it was quite a few years until I saw it in color.  DS9 is a newcomer...

Kirk

Mooselake wrote: I watched the original star trek when it was new, although it was quite a few years until I saw it in color.  DS9 is a newcomer...

Kirk

LOL well you may just be older than me...

I can remember watching the first episode in black and white as a child. Dam that's a lot of years ago.

My Dad told me about Star Trek  :)

Tweakie.

tweakie wrote: My Dad told me about Star Trek  :)

Tweakie.

Well I made a Star Trek fan out of my son, who also did the same for the grand kids. They all know the Vulcan salute and who Scottie is.

Long live Seven of Nine :) my second favorite lol

Cheers and avagreatweekend people.
Steve

In the early 80s I was a manager at a small company, and had an engineer named Scott that reported to me.  Scott would smile at the first Beam me up joke, then politely ask you to stop at the second.  He was an ex football player, nobody ever argued.

Old people are older than me.  I'm just a creakie retired young guy.

Kirk

Mooselake wrote: In the early 80s I was a manager at a small company, and had an engineer named Scott that reported to me.  Scott would smile at the first Beam me up joke, then politely ask you to stop at the second.  He was an ex football player, nobody ever argued.

Old people are older than me.  I'm just a creakie retired young guy.

Kirk

Now remember I'm blaming you for bringing up the Scott's, so I find myself compelled to share the following..  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3lYLphzAnw

lol

;D ;D ;D

( I had the good fortune to meet up with Kirk when he came to London many years back - of course, he was much younger then  ;D )

Tweakie.

tweakie wrote: ;D ;D ;D

( I had the good fortune to meet up with Kirk when he came to London many years back - of course, he was much younger then  ;D )

Tweakie.

Even though I'm a Trekkie fan, love Kirk, Scottie and the rest of the crew, including Picard etc. There are two that come to my mind that I would have wanted to meet. No1 The green Alien that Kirk had a fling with, and I would have loved to have been assimilated by 7 of Nine  :P.

Sorry Art, I know its not much to do about Gears and things but Trek does turn the right cogs...

Steve

Sorry Steve, my bad, but I was referring to Mooselake Kirk  :-[

Tweakie.

tweakie wrote: Sorry Steve, my bad, but I was referring to Mooselake Kirk  :-[

Tweakie.

LOL that's ok but my previous statement still stands,,,,,,,,,, I'm going to go watch an old episode or two.

Beam me up Stojan. :)

Art