Recent content by DougM

I'll update the drawing and post the DXF LMK how you want to move forward - cut up an actual box, cut a sacrificial plate or laser up some cardboard?

Funny story there, I recently was trying to find a robot vac that would work on shag carpet (TLDR: there isn't one) and I got a recommendation from the internet and ordered it. It was surprisingly inexpensive and had a full on spinning Lidar on top so I had high hopes. Well, the first thing it...

Here are the DXF's in case anyone wants to play around with them. I had to zip them because this platform won't accept native DXF I don't have a laser cutter in house but if @wperko If you want to laser cut them and send to @nullvalue for confirmation that might be good. Next up, what is the...

That's why it sounded so familiar :-)

I recall yet another YouTube video where the guy said you get some mailing labels, take all the labels off, print onto the backing on the side where the labels used to be and then transfer that.

Yes, I can either make the slots a bit longer to compensate for the roundover or I can deliver it as is and someone can file square corners in. I think I would just use a regular file for this rather than the diamond ones. They are great, but if you want nice square corners and fast cutting...

They are Gantry CNC machines, sorta home made... In this picture you can see the little one in the foreground and the big one in the background.

The 8-bit Guy on YouTube talks about those quite a bit, you might be able to find good ideas there. I'm curious about this too.

Here's what I usually put together before I head down to the shop. Obviously all of these numbers are made up. Once I have the thing programmed into the machine I can cut a sample faceplate and you can test fit before I actually try to cut the box. That might avoid $34 mistakes.

Just the box and a drawing :) Let me know if you need more details on what the drawing should look like.

Are you still looking for someone to cut your panels for you? I'd be happy to take a run at it.

/thread hijack/ I still have a DTV capture box. It used to be a Win7 box with Windows Media Center until that finally gave up the ghost. Now I use NextPVR. I drag it out for the Olympics and the Oscars and the very rare sporting event. I hook it up to that giant antenna I still have...

I would check every cap to make sure none of them have failed short. This one looks pretty messy DougM

Just for fun I weighed them (slow morning) The Unicomp is 3 lb 13.6 oz True Blue is 4lb 8.3oz So not that much difference. I wonder where the actual delta lies. cheapie modern HP keyboard is 1lb 5.7 oz

They went away?