Monthly Archives: April 2012

CNC – cable runs

I spent some time in the shop today, getting the cables run on the CNC machine. It’s been another one of those long hiatuses, and I needed to get out there and make the thing cut. I needed to crimp … Continue reading

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CNC – thinking about wires

I spent Saturday running the soldering iron. Among other things, I was able to construct a trio of Hall Effect switches that I’m going to install on the CNC machine as home switches. I breadboarded, then soldered the circuits together … Continue reading

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Insane URL-fu

I had an interesting use case. I needed to get some data out of a database, and then return the result in a graph. So far, the thing is not so interesting. However, there were a few twists. First twist, … Continue reading

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