[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Laptop with parallel port needed for Modela
- From: Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:54:42 -0500
Also, also, I just found a 47mb zip file of what looks like the original
windows software for the modela. Haven't tried it out or anything.
http://www.mbeckler.org/PiczaModella.rar
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Matthew
On 01/14/2011 10:22 AM, Matthew Beckler wrote:
> Also, I just found the notes I took when I was working with the Modela
> engraver last time:
>
>
> origin is lower-left when looking at unit on table
> x axis increases to the right
> origin is about even with the left vertical slider
> max x is about even with the right vertical slider
> max x value is about 5800, which is the max usable value
>
> y axis increases to the top
> origin is even with the bottom of the carriage
> max y is even with the top of the carriage
> max y value is about 4000
>
> z of about -1500 is nearly hitting the orange plastic panel base
> z of anything positive is the highest (further from work piece)
>
> the spindle appears to accept 1/4" tools
>
>
> --
> Matthew
>
> On 01/14/2011 09:48 AM, Matthew Beckler wrote:
>> On 01/13/2011 10:49 PM, Ed Paradis wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have an old Dell 166 mhz that is in fine working condition
>>>
>>> A 166MHz machine is probably too slow if we plan to run Inkscape on
>>> it. If we can use it as a print server of sorts, than it'd be plenty
>>> fast, I think.
>>
>> At this point it might be the best we can do. All the "modela server"
>> needs to do is to cat a text file out the printer's device. Tonight, I
>> can probably whip up a quick daemon to listen on some random high port,
>> and send the received file to the parallel port. That way we wouldn't
>> need X or anything too fancy on the modela server.
>>
>> Does anyone have an adapter for old laptop hard drives, to connect them
>> to USB or a regular hard drive connector? This is an old hard drive, so
>> it's a parallel-ATA drive, not a SATA laptop drive.
>>
>> --
>> Matthew
>>
>
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