no, just over the bow. An open source effort is done by community and has some measure of transparency. When you close the source off and only eventually release it with a marketing launch if at all, is it really open source? Technically yes, but open source works with a transparent group effort and they are running a business software model. they make a good product and they are very aggressive with their development and marketing. Good for them. But then it seems kind of like we all work for them for free…
You will need to download arduino ide and pull the firmware for your controller and flash it. There is a walk-thru step by step here. The firmware is here. Click on the green code button and download zip.
totally agree. which is why im a bit concerned. Web Control needs to be maintained as an open source alternative then. Who has taken over its care taking from @madgrizzle?
Nobody has agreed to it. I’m not a developer. I make feature adds and do minor bug fixes, but I’m not comfortable taking responsibility for it completely.
That news about Makerverse is rather disappointing, but software takes more work to create and maintain than hardware does so I don’t judge people wanting to be paid for it.
Like I’ve said in other posts, I’ll do what I can to fix any serious bugs in webcontrol that breaks something (which I’m not expecting to actually happen), but I just don’t have the time to add features or provide support.
Thanks @Orob and @jonatpridesleap for helping out @Paxman on this. I was trying to help him out on another one of his posts, but between the Mac and some other funky stuff GC was giving him, I was at the end of my knowledge base! Thanks again for the assist with him, and good luck to you @Paxman, I hope between these fellows and your request for help from MakerMade, you get some traction and your machine up and running correctly and making chips!
Yes I do. I can’t figure out how to set up Makerverse.
I think I’ll use Easel, Inkscape and Makerverse. What programs do you use?I’m frankly surprised it takes 3 programs, one to generate vector, file then one to translate to CAM file then one to run the Arduino! But whatever works…
I’d appreciate any advice you can offer.
I use Onshape. You can use this software for free. The files you create will be public. Kiri moto is used as an add on within onshape to generate Goode.
I’m frankly surprised it takes 3 programs, one to generate vector, file then one to translate to CAM file then one to run the Arduino! But whatever works…
Hang in there dude, it’s a really steep learning curve but there comes a point in time when it becomes apparent to you why this is the case and needs to be.
Going back to your original problem with that text file you created using the NC code for the simple cicle - you showed in your screenshot that GC on macOS couldn’t see the file on the desktop. I’ve had the same problem myself. Can I ask how you created the ‘simple text file’? If you created it using the TextEdit app, it actually saves into ‘.rft’ (rich text format) by default, so even though your file is called filename.nc on the desktop, it’s actually called filename.nc.rtf on the underlying filesystem (thanks macOS!) and that’s why GC won’t accept it. If you did create in TextEdit then try using the ‘make plain text’ option from the Format menu then re-save the file and see if GC can see it now.
Don’t get me wrong, you should still focus on getting WebControl up and running on something because that’s the future, but since you’re so close with GC and you looked like you were willing to give the NC a try I thought I’d try and help you over the line there
