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Aha - I get that a lot. You have told UGCS that the Arduino is on port 8 at 115200 baud, haven't you? The first thing to note is that the Arduino takes an age to boot up. So plug it into the com port and wait a good 30 secs for it to settle down - or look at the lights on it and wait for them to show that it has booted and loaded GRBL. Even after that I can still get difficulty connecting. Do you have several available ports? I tend to get UGCS to open another port, then close that one, then open the correct one, and that often helps the connect. I suspect that interference on the line can cause quite a few issues - I have ferrite line filters at all available points. But the big problem I had was realising that the Arduino retains its settings over a power-off, so you can't just reboot and start again from scratch. If you have set it up incorrectly (as I did several times) you have to re-set it up properly before it will operate... and the com ports also seem to remember that they were busy and refuse to become free...

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Hi Ken, If you are intending to build a rescue boat, may I thank you on behalf of Alice as this should cut down the number of times she has to get into her waders and perform the human rescue boat role.

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Muchas gracias👍 Hope you managed to enjoy the Bank Holiday and could let the grey cells cool down a bit😉 BTW: Dodgy's query reiterates the need for the Forum Categories! Keep on coding man😁 All the best, Doug 😎

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Can anyone recommend a good brushless motor and esc for tug towing please?

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This is a coastal patrol ship that practically designed its self. I had some plastic card and I just wanted to make something, I hade no plans or drawings and this was the end result. This was made using my baking paper tip. I never got around to installing rc equipment in it as a friend decided that he wanted it as it was. And I never got took any photos of the making of it.

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DF's maiden voyage went well yesterday, despite hardly any breeze at all. Myself and fellow club member Colin who was re-tuning his Graupner RG-65 had a lovely time cruising around our club water, trying to find the best of the rare breaths of wind. Mine is the white boat with clear white sails

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Maersk Master, scale 1/50. Dimensions, 168x38cm, weight 54kg 1 main pitch controlled propeller (100mm) 2 azimuth thrusters (50mm) and 2 bow thrusters(44mm). Full function, winches, towing pins, lights, fifi, radars,

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I just thought I would post some photos of my HMS Cottesmore. She is still a work in progress. I have been working on her for about three years now.(in between other projects) I purchased the hull And running gear from Fleetscale. Everything else has been made by myself using odds and ends, bits and pieces including yogurt pots and a lot of LED's I have a few more years work to do before she is completed, lots more bits to make.

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