Re: Ah-ha! in the home-shop; was: Who's your BOSS?

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., admin@a... wrote:

>
> Howdy Tim,
>
> Thanks much for your warm welcome! I've been following
> a few of the threads here for a couple months, but I just
> haven't had time to jump in myself until now. In fields
> other than CNC, I'm a big-time hacker too; so I enjoy
> following along as people try, learn, fail, succeed, grow
> to the next level, etc..
>
> 1) Those who do have a machine tool, but in truth, prefer sitting
> at the keyboard and playing with software routines or whatever.
> The low-end systems are great for them, because there's endless
> twitching, fixing, optimizing, and scrounging to do; and making
> parts isn't really their primary interest anyway. It's the
> 'journey' that they find more fun. More of the 'computer' or
> 'electronics' type, I suppose you'd call them.
>
> 2) Then there are the guys who are serious -machinists-, and/or
> entrepreneurs with a product-idea. They may be working at home
> too, but with a whole different perspective on it. They're not
> interested in spending months and years re-inventing the CNC wheel;
> or they've already tried it and got burned or burned-out doing it.
> They want a serious control, on their machine, making chips, today.
>
> For the most part, those are our guys.
>

Richard,
A very well laid out and presented post, but then again with two Ahha
units I'm biased <g>

What I would like to point out is the ease of these setups. Just
using the supplied card and linking into my machines existing
drivers, with the infomation supplied we had the machine up and
running in four hours. the manual is a real manual, not a couple of
sheets with some pin outs on them.
Without Ahha I for one would never have got running in CNC.

John Stevenson
Nottingham, England