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Locating Clubs on 'Boats Clubs and Lakes'

I am sure that on the previous when looking for Clubs, etc. they were in alphabetical order. They now seem to be in order of the last post against a particular Club, Lakes, etc. It was a lot easier to find Clubs before - is there any chance that this can be re-instated or the ability to sort by name or last post, etc. ? Alan

5 years ago by ads90

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Arduino Transmitter link up

Sometimes things are not as they seem! I was not trying to keep a secret - more wanting to be a responsible forum member. A few years back a forum was started for RC & Arduino - the majority of the content relates to model boats or subs. It was started as fellow modellers wanted to discuss and progress their Arduino adventures but clogging up a model boat forum with the minutiae of microprocessors and syntax, the discussion and pursuit of misplaced semi colons, did seem fair on other members who had no interest in the subject. It was also not possible to structure and present the techie information in a way that a dedicated forum facilitates (sections/categories/groups etc) – hence we started our own forum. Our intention was/is that the detail would be kept away from cluttering up the modelling forum’s – the results however in all their glory would be published and celebrated on the various modelling sites and shared with all members – hopefully a win-win situation. My PM contained the link to the RC & Arduino forum where all are welcome to join – it is not my intention to divert posts, traffic away from the modelling sites as explained above – if admin do not approve of this post then please delete. RC & Arduino forum - http://rcarduino.freeforums.net/ And yes to both ‘K’s although I wouldn’t want to boast about the Ket ring one! _._

4 years ago by G6SWJ

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Musical Christmas Tree Project

Hi Guys, If you are interested in Arduino and want to start as a complete beginner then may I suggest that you look at the lessons from Paul Mcwhorter on utube. There are 35 Lessons and he explains things right from the beginners point of view. If you purchase a ARDUINO STARTER KIT (from eBay) you can easily follow the experiment with him. He also teaches you to code and explains how to modify it. He tells you about the Free to download that you will need. There is also a free to download Arduino for Dummies PDF on the Web.(just type in Arduino for Dummies) Hope this helps. Martin555.

4 years ago by Martin555

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Musical Christmas Tree Project

Brilliant Stephen. Happy Christmas. I have recently bought a 32 project starter Arduino kit from ebay for £20. It is incredible value. The programming is free on their site. It all looks very interesting. I will post a photo of the kit later today.😊

4 years ago by MouldBuilder

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Musical Christmas Tree Project

Some screenshots here of the arduino code and the programming I made. I've seen the vixen lights before, but I don't think it works on a mac? Also, part the fun was to make my own sequencing . It's all HTML5 based and works in the browser. Each block is a draggable div, you can select many or some in one go, copy/paste, change colours, fade in, fade out etc. These are then split into tracks and saved to the database, then exported as function calls off a 50ms timer in the arduino code. It's an Arduino Mega, simply due to the programming space required and the fact it has more available timers in the chip. Some are used by the MP3 player, so it was important not to mix timers. As for programming a whole house display... although I know I've the technical know-how... it's not something I'd want to do! 🤣 Stephen

4 years ago by fireboat

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Musical Christmas Tree Project

Looks good - If you are into this type of things - check out free Vixen Lights - sequencing ( looks simple but it's powerful - takes a while to get used to - outputs serial commands to the like of Arduino - downloads/install often flag as malware etc - they are 100% safe http://www.vixenlights.com/ Great use of RGB addressable LEDS And then you can do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90oZ52M4IC0 _._

4 years ago by G6SWJ

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Re: Exhaust Smoker

Hi JB, I was thinking of a simple artificial sound generator as that isn’t too difficult to put together. I think it would just be a bit more in the revised controller I’m putting together. However, I’ve just been browsing my favourite on-line store and found this. There also seem to be plenty of sound files available on the www to download. Would undoubtedly sound better, but unfortunately it will have to go on my ever increasing ‘to do’ list😉 Graham93

5 years ago by Graham93

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Re: Exhaust Smoker

Hi Michael, Thanks, glad you like it.👍 Re: Is the electronic controller based on PIC microchips a commercially available item? The controller is my design based on three baseline PIC microchips. Not the most elegant of designs, as this could all be implemented in one mid range PIC with a bit more effort, but it was quick to do this way, and I have a stock of the baseline parts. PIC1 acts as a simple RCswitch monitoring the throttle channel to turn the smoker on/off. PIC2 provides the smoke pulses by turning the air pump on/off at a rate determined by the throttle channel. PIC3 implements two motor speed controllers, one for the water pump, and one for the air pump. This latter speed controller is modulated by the on/off pulses from PIC2. The circuit board shows the three PICs. On the underside of the board there are three surface mount power FETs to drive the smoker coil and the two pumps. I'm happy to share more details on my current implementation of this, but it is not very configurable/transferrable unless you have experience with PICs and the necessary tools. For example, following the trial on the lake yesterday, I think it would work better if the water pump was running a bit faster. To make that happen I have to change some values in the , and then reprogram the appropriate PIC. It was just easier to put together this way, but its not very practical on the lake.🙄 I have it in mind to redevelop the on a better PIC and to add some buttons on the circuit board so that various parameters could be adjusted without having to reprogram the PICs. It will be an interesting challenge, but will take a little while as I'll have to fit it in around everything else 😉. Graham93

5 years ago by Graham93

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Re: Another Exhaust Smoker V2

Hi Doug, Re:Had a look on the Microchip site, basic kit not too expensive but, as so often, the stuff you need to make it work well ain't so cheap☹️ I just use the PICKit2, which was cheap, and the free development . The lets you run a simulator on the PC where you can monitor your code, single step, set a breakpoint, etc. You can also monitor and change variable values. Some of the more sophisticated PIC16f chips allow you to debug your code running in the target hardware using the PICKit2 as the debug interface to your PC. Graham93

5 years ago by Graham93

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Re: Another Exhaust Smoker V2

Hi Doug, Yes, probably too much smoke at present, but I can always turn it down once I’ve tried it on the lake. I think it probably needs to be a bit OTT to make it obvious on the lake. In discussion with JB, he suggested that the smoke should only be on when the throttle is idle as you won’t be able to see it when the boat is motoring fast. So last night I wrote some code for a PIC microchip to switch the smoker on/off based on throttle setting. I could just have used another channel on the R/C to switch it on/off, but I’m short on channels and this way is more interesting. The functionality is initially with the throttle at idle, the smoker will be off. A quick jab forward on the throttle and back to idle will turn the smoker on. It will then remain on until the throttle is held forward for a couple of seconds, i.e. the boat is underway, when the smoker will turn off. It will then remain off whatever the throttle setting, until another quick jab forward from idle. I still need to test and debug the code. I have been using PIC microchips for all sorts of projects for many years and use a whole range of different types depending on the application. They are all programmed with a PicKit2 which plugs in to the USB port on my laptop. I think the current version is PicKit3. I write in assembler code and compile it with the free available from Microchip. I have found that for model boat applications the requirements are generally very simple, and very few I/O pins are needed. I have been using PIC10f220 chips for these as I have a stock available left over from a product I used to manufacture and sell online. These have 4 I/O pins and work well for RCswitches, pulse stretchers, and the functionality described above. There are more powerful chips available for mor complex applications. Regards Graham93

5 years ago by Graham93

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Re: Another Exhaust Smoker V2

Hi Graham, Well done👍 Seems to me to be more than enough smoke.🌪️ When the engines warmed up surely should only be wisps? Clouds like that only on start up / cold engine? Am interested in the PIC chip you used, and PIC chips in general. Have never used them so have done some research this week and would very much like to know which programming and HW interface to PC you use. Did a lot of programming for ATE systems, but that was a LONG time ago. Tempus fugit🤔 I've also noticed with interest that Action Electronics make extensive use of PIC chips in their modules!! Be nice to be able to read them out😁 Cheers, Doug 😎

5 years ago by RNinMunich

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Post code

I have three of these units and find the sounds excellent. The added advantage is being able to sync gun flashes with the respective sounds and add whatever you want in wav. format. Downside is the is ancient and long winded and will not work on a Mac. I would still highly recommend it.

5 years ago by cormorant

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Re: Bulkheads and motor fit.

Hi Martin I am an Apple user and I open photos with an inbuilt bit of called Preview. The magnifier is one of the included editing tools. I only discovered it the other day!

5 years ago by cormorant

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What have I got?

Lighter DXF file now on the web page. Note: 1 - I run vintage everything here. Consequently the DXF file was generated by from the 1980s, and may have compatibility issues with modern code. If you have problems, tell me, and I'll find a way to update it... http://eezebilt.tk/lightplan.html 2 - The plan was designed for 16"-20" barges to go with the EeZeBilt Beaver. If you go much bigger you will need thicker material or some extra support in the centre to stop a long run of thin material bending. But I guess that you know that anyway... 3 - Modern lighters - as the Spittalfields reference on the web site illustrates - typically carry freight (usually garbage) in boxes like shipping containers. Perhaps I should make up a plan for those too - but they are a fairly simple shape anyway...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Wiring help needed.

Welcome aboard Chief. Missed you and Lt jg Errol on the Night Watch! A wise warning on the frequency conversion.👍 As far as I can see Colin's Futaba FF7 TX was designed primarily for aircraft but also to accommodate various RF modules, from 35Megs through 40 and the 70s you guys can use and 2.4 Gigs. He also has the FrSky 2.4 kit designed for use in Futaba TXs, with matching spread spectrum and coding, so he should be OK🤞 Agree he might need to make space to fit an extra Bind switch, UNLESS the new uses a particular position of an existing switch, or a combination of existing switches! Guess we'll see shortly. Cheers, Doug 😎

5 years ago by RNinMunich

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Posting updates on Model Boat Clubs and lakes

I have been trying to post an update on the above for our Club pond and every time I try to post I get a message pop up saying "Please select category" but there is no category to select. Is it me or is there an issue with the ? Alan

5 years ago by ads90

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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft

HobbyKing CNC mill- Hmm! Seems a bit "cheap and cheerful"! Only two reviews, which aren't very encouraging🤔 "Great price nearly impossible to use mill Packaged great, arrived fine and nearly fully assembled. Documentation and is horrible. I spent two full days trying to see if I could trick into working. The supplied won't move the Z or moves Z but won't turn the tool. I needed to get back to work so it sits in a box waiting for another couple days to find some other way to make it useful. When I have a real need for it, I'll spend the time but for now, not worth it to me. Falls short - just a touch Dave The machine arrived exactly as shown, but had to be completely disassembled and reassembled as every nut and bolt was loose. Neither the table nor the motor assembly were straight. It took about 2 hours to make sure everything was zero-zero. One of the two plastic angle supports was broken. Instead of making another (all plastic parts are 3D printed) I opted to use aluminum angle. The overall quality of the parts is very good. See Community Discussions about the failure of the ." https://hobbyking.com/de_de/t8-diy-3-axis-cnc-milling-machine-w-arduino-and-grbl.html Cheers, Doug 😎

5 years ago by RNinMunich

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Water Jets

"...DG if you have a 3d printer you must have the design for it too - otherwise its useless ..." I said I 'can get one printed'. Dodgy Geezers can call in favours from all sorts of places! And not only plastic deposition machines either - stereo lithography or selective laser sintering (if you want to 3-D print in tungsten) would be available through university contacts. As would design modification...Though, given how long it took me to get a pair of rather specialist gears lapped the last time I wanted a set, I would match RN's comment in saying that I wouldn't hold my breath!

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Water Jets

DG if you have a 3d printer you must have the design for it too - otherwise its useless - unless you are only ever going to make other peoples designs - very easy to add stuff & modify designs if you know how - friend has one - manipulates its faster than I do Corel - but its purely commercial for him - so no freebies . unfortunately ...........

5 years ago by redpmg

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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft

In the 80s they built to last! Cue 4 Yorkshiremen sketch... In 1988 they did not have much concept of elements - only vectors...unfortunately the current version of my package (which I am sure will do everything) would set me back around £1,500 for the cheapest item... The only way I could handle this would be to manually type text comments at all places. Which would involve writing a book...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft

Now we are on the home straight! We have a drawing, a reasonable structure, and we can start pulling out the detail. It's at this stage that I usually confuse myself completely, since I will make numerous slight alterations to put bulkheads and formers in better positions for several reasons - internal layout, better strength and balance.... and I end up with several dozen slightly different hull designs, each of which are slightly incompatible with numerous slightly different bulkheads, and I then lose track of which parts go with which others... However, here are some examples of the output from this stage. The superstructure base(fig32) is going to have to be made from parts as I mentioned earlier. The bulkheads (fig33) can now all be drawn with their slots and tabs, ready for assembling into the classic egg-box on the sub-deck (fig34). The front formers and the keel are taken off the drawing, again with tabs drawn (fig35)... There will be quite a number of other parts to be drawn and made - the transom and other flat sections of the stern, the triangular bulkheads under the subdeck, the trapezoid plates which go to make up the funnel and mast, and other details like the anchor well. Almost all of these parts will be uninteresting rectangles with dimensions taken off the drawing, so I am not going to list them all down here. The full set of parts, however, will be needed when it comes to the cutting stage, because we will be trying to get as little wastage as possible from the balsa, and sneaking little triangular formers into all available gaps on the sheets. I will take a bit of a break now, because I need to get the water-jets delivered before doing the final stern design - and I am running short of balsa, so I will need more of that! I may cut a few parts on a sheet of 1/8" inch as an illustration. To do this you simply arrange the parts you want into a 4"x36" rectangle, load the cutter with a 4"x35" balsa sheet and send a file describing the parts to the cutter over a USB link. We will cover the used and the stages of converting the drawing file to cutting instructions at that point...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Where are they?

Most modern electronic equipment is fitted with a Critical Needs Detector. The CND is a miracle of modern - it can automatically determine whether you REALLY need any item it is bundled with, and only at that point will it create a bug, total systems failure, or, in your case, simply make the equipment unavailable. Seems to work particularly well with photocopiers...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Aft running light!

It’s been really hot here! Haven’t had time to go to the pond! But, have kept myself busy on the Computer! Have done quite a few upgrades to my Computer! I have upgraded it’s and hardware wise! I did however take time out. To put an aft running light on Brooklyn! I know, I know eventually I’ll get to the pond! 🙂

5 years ago by figtree7nts

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Batteries in a DX5e

Just had a look DG and it seems that it uses your phones internet connection... Yes. Everything now uses the internet transmission protocol - even, in most cases, your normal land-line phone. Free service will assume that there is reasonably unlimited internet provision, which is the case in most populous areas in the Western world, but can be a problem out in the country... Live streaming discussions are often provided by web sites - I don't know if there is free for these which lets external people join in...but you are correct that video - particularly HD - is going to chew up bandwidth...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Batteries in a DX5e

"Would be great if we could work out a cheap way to video group chat..." I thought there was a lot of free conference call . WattsAp does it, I believe...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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CAD with Designspark Mechanical.

The basic principles are quite simple really, Everything is worked out on a co ordinate system, you could say fancy map reading or navigation. A map is divided into squares, each square being part of a numbered grid, same on a nautical chart. so to get from A to B, you navigate accross the chart, so point A may be square 21/06, 21 squares along and 6 up. Point B is say 18/32 so 18 along and 32 up. (asleep yet?) to get from A to B you will plot a route through the grid from one reference to another. Similarly, our CNC router, laser cutter 3Dprinter plotter etc works on the same principle, we have 3 axes, X Y and Z X being left to right, Y back and forth and Z up and down. Cad converts a drawing, or draws as a set of co ordinates, so for a 2 dimensional square, the co ordinates could be, say, X0 Yo, bottom left corner, and X10 Y10 the top right. X5 Y5 would be the center of the square. To add a 3rd dimension, the Z axis gets involved, so on a 3D print, the first layer would be z 0.15, second Z 0,3 etc. I am using Designspark Mechanical to illustrate, the photos are, hopefully self explanatory... Next time will prepare the object for 3D printing.

5 years ago by Nickthesteam

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CNC boat kits...?

"...To prevent parts falling out, There is a low tack film sheet that airbrush painters users that you could stick to the under side of the wood...." There may well be. But it turns out to be easy to just specify a cutting depth which has exactly the same effect. I was surprised at how precise these machines can be. And I'm running off such archaic that I would have to do tabs all manually - a lot of work....

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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CNC boat kits...?

Also tell the cam to leave tabs to hold parts in the parent stock......

5 years ago by Nickthesteam

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3D Printing.

Now that is an interesting question indeed, Martin! In the "One to One" scale world, I have in my lifetime watched the steady march of machines taking over what i would describe as "Hand Skills" I have memories of being a trainee mechanical engineer and spending some time in a heavy machine shop and watching this guy "Knock on a cut" with a hide mallet. Just ease the lock nut and a tap with the mallet and he could put on a couple of thou! Today it is all CNC and robotics. The skill being in the machine maker, the designer and the guys & gals that programme them. Now I am not going to dare to say who is more skilled the guy with his mallet or the guy who uses the . They are both skilful in their own right. So if we turn that on its head and apply that to 3D printing. driven accurate 3D modelling against hand and eye skills. That is for you hardened purists to argue over. However I do just wonder if it may be a way forward for us to attract the next generation of modeller away from their X Box or similar to a laptop and printer to make a modern model with a 3D printer. Was it such a heinous crime against modelling when Vac Formed parts arrived or heaven forbid Glass Fibre Hulls. I have a friend who uses a CNC milling rig to make the plugs for his gun turret silicon rubber moulds he uses to cast resin ones from. Is this not verbally the same? For me the choice will be what is the best way to make the part I need. When a logical engineering decision is reached, just get on with it and make a great model to be proud of. Great question Martin 555 am sure this will create loads of responses and run for ever

5 years ago by ikseno99

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Recent Down Time

"The hosting company say the database was locked by the security team as SPAM content was detected in the forum table. Getting it unlocked proved slow and now it is unlocked, I can't see any issue with it." That raises a lot of questions! Did they know that locking the database would drop the site for 24 hours? If not, they made a technical error. If they did, I would like to see the security justification for this. Malicious - maybe close down the site if you can't clean it immediately. Spam - surely inform the webmaster and ask what should be done? The spam would have to be very bad to take the site off-web. And surely you would be able to show the webmaster what the problem was later? I wonder if there was a technical balls-up and this is a convenient excuse? Security is NOT about closing things down if you hear a rumour that there might be a problem - it's about running a business so that there are no nasty surprises. The security team is responsible for running a service just as much as the ops team are. Security should be running things safely - with the accent on 'running'. If they don't, they are just another DoS threat. I would ask for a report from security which includes the reason for the locking decision...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Brushed to Brushless upgrade

".....brushless motors the main question is speed controller as I would need forward and reverse...." Simple answer. You can get reversible brushless ESCs. However, watch out, as boats are a minority interest and many cheap reversible brushless ESCs are designed for car use. These may have a 'braking' feature, which means that the controls work like this: forward stick = forward backward stick = motor braked quick forward and backward again = motor goes in reverse which is optimum for cars, but cumbersome for boats. A proper boat designed brushless ESC will be fine, as will be a cheap car one where you can turn off the 'brake'. RNinMunich recommends the Quicrun series of Chinese brushless ESCs, but of course products change all the time. So check that the ESC you are after is reversible, and has a 'no-brake' setting.... Rather more complex background explanation. This is my understanding of how one particular 'brushless' system works - there may well be other technologies out there... : 'Commutation' is the process of switching each coil in an electric motor on at the right time to get attracted to the nearest magnet and off when it passes the magnet, so that the armature will rotate in one direction. In a brushed motor this happens mechanically, and we don't need to worry about it. If you want to know a bit more, get a Taycol motor and start reading papers like this: http://what-when-how.com/electric-motors/commutation-electric-motors/ In a brushless motor, commutation is done by inside the ESC. So the ESC is essential to a brushless motor - it won't run without one. What the in a brushless ESC does is start the motor with a pre-programmed series of activations of coils. Once spinning, the detects the generated back-emf as a magnet passes each coil, and uses this to work out the motor speed, timing, and hence which coils to activate next, depending on the throttle signal. Obviously, this happens very fast. If the motor went round slowly, the generated back-emf would be very low, and the ESC would have difficulty detecting it. So a typical brushless motor has a minimum speed which is quite high compared to a brushed motor. In a sensor motor, the ESC can be much more precise about timing because it reads it off the Hall-effect sensor. It can also run at much slower speeds. But the extra kit, and the low production levels mean that these are going to be more expensive motors. For a brushless ESC the starting process, and the reversing process, are much more complicated than they are in a brushed motor. In each case the has to try to detect what the motor is doing and adjust the timing to get it running in the right direction 'blind', with possibly odd feedback from the coil back EMF. For a brushed motor, the ESC just reverses the polarity and the mechanical commutation automatically applies a force in the direction you want. The result is that brushless starts can be a bit jerky, and brushless reverses need 'setting up' with a process of signalling from your transmitter or using a program card. Since cheap brushless ESCs are often turned out with little documentation, making them reverse can sometimes be difficult for an inexperienced purchaser.

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Fatal Error - Half my Profile is missing! ;-/

I have also had that error message occasionally. Seems as if this board is rather buggy...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Fatal Error - Half my Profile is missing! ;-/

Yes Stephen, I have had similar problems with notifications in my emails. Thought it was my phone . Cheers Colin.

5 years ago by Colin H

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CNC boat kits...?

Aluminium for stables? Perhaps a slab of oak would be more appropriate? I am cutting slices off old oak fence posts for use as coasters and think I can engrave them using the 'boat motor cutter' - so long as the cut is not deep. A laser would be ideal - but the cost and the danger mean that it needs a bit of thinking about. I must look up the Rumba and mega2560. One issue I have with the Uno and GRBL is that the does not do 'tool radius compensation'. You have to do this in your conversion, and Dfx2Gcode does not do this either. I do not know if there is a GRBL version running on the 2650 which does do this. Essentially you need a GRBL which implements G41/2 commands, or you will have to do the compensation in your original drawing. I am using sub-milimeter cutting tools for balsa, so the compensation required is negligible and can be ignored, but when cutting ply I may need to worry about it. Your TMC2130s may not need endstops, but the limit switches are also used for homing. You will find that if you want to cut lots of parts out of a single sheet of material, it helps to be able to home accurately. GRBL allows you to have a 'master machine home' and then several subsidiary homes. So, when cutting, I start with the cutter in the master home position in the top right corner, then move it to a secondary home position which is directly over the workpiece top right, then do all of my cutting in relation to that secondary home position...

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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CNC boat kits...?

A word about the electronics and build.... Each stepper motor is driven by a 'driver' - a little switching unit like an ESC. This does the business of sending the power to the motor coils in the right order. They are quite cheap - about £10 each. To tell each driver to operate the motors in the right order you need a control box running the right . You can use a dedicated laptop for this, running a stripped down system called LinuxCNC, but I opted to use an Arduino, which was the option advised by the vendor. So here is a picture of the Arduino (at the bottom - you can't really see it) with a breakout board on top carrying the four drivers (which have the little blue heatsinks on them). I made up an aluminium box to put them in, and attached it to the cutting gantry. The Arduino runs a control program called GRBL. I take the plans I have drawn in DXF format, run them through some called DXF2GCode, which turns them into G-Code, and then send that file to the Arduino via a USB connection using 'Universal GCode Sender'. All these items of are open source and free to download. The Arduino gets its power from the USB connection. The stepper motors get their power from a cheap Chinese 36v power supply, and the cutting motor gets its power from an old laptop power supply I had hanging around. If electronics frightens you then you probably won't want to do this, but the skills needed to wire up a boat motor are really as much as you need to put it all together....

5 years ago by DodgyGeezer

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Almost there.

The Pilot boat is nearly finished. I have been fitting the seats and deck railings. I am reasonably happy with it but I have a lot to learn, some of which will be in my conclusion in the final post. My sailing river is in Hungary so I have spent part of this weekend making the shipping boxes. I have decided on a very simple screw face to edge design as there is not a lot of weight to send. The box is heavier than the model. I have used 12mm ply wood for the construction. My local B&Q cut the board to the sizes I supplied to them. A very useful service as it takes a long time to set up my circular saw as it has no table. It only took 15 minutes to cut out the twelve pieces. i then just added the fixing holes and countersunk them to make the screws sub-flush. They look suitable for purpose. I have sorted the problem with the lack of usable switches on my Turnigy 9x. As I needed another radio to take with me, I bought a Turnigy 9xr Pro. This one has the latest er9x which is much more user friendly, I am told.😉 I will upload a video of the trials over the next few weeks. Almost time to decide which of the three new and rebuild projects to tackle next. The Patrol Torpedo Boat upgrade, the Dusseldorf Fire Fighting Boat or the 46" Crash Tender.

5 years ago by MouldBuilder

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Can't edit or add to boat in harbour

This website certainly doesn't put any personal information of anybody on facebook. @4clubs, in the process of fixing the loading bug in the harbour, I've deleted some of your harbour photos. Sorry! Hopefully you can edit again and re-add them. Do realise, it's one man here, with a separate full-time job. There's no large team of developers. The old website had security vulnerabilities and used legacy code which had to run on older server versions. It wasn't possible to update the server until the website was overhauled and in the longer run, it would have been necessary to pay for extended server support to keep the legacy stuff going. Things cannot stay as they are. Nearly everything has been overhauled and it's taken 18 months to do so. Bugs like you mention will be ironed out, like with any it's never perfect right out the box. My guess is that the number of photos in the post affected the loading screen. I'll do some further testing this evening on that. Thanks Stephen

5 years ago by fireboat