As a software engineer that has developed software for free for two decades, I can definitely relate to the hate. You cannot please everyone all the time, and those that you don’t please will have vitriol towards you as if you are personally responsible for every ill in the world. Not much you can do about that.
I would generally get hate from fans of other software that performed similar tasks, as if by making mine, I somehow lessened what they already had and they wanted to feel better about their choices. I would imagine much the same would apply with hardware engineering projects like this.
I see youve got endstop mounts etc, but will there be some nice solid(ish) flat(ish) faces that will work well with sensorless homing? Im loving it on my LR2…
then allow me to add some positivity to counter the hate to what you are doing and say thanks to you and your team. I love the sneak peeks and the naming poll (even though i was late to the party, that’s life). I can wait as I sill don’t have room for this new adventure and still need to gather other hardware. Keep up the good work!
Do you have a build thread or something where you talk about it? I was just reading up yesterday, and I was wondering how I might use it for a project I’m working on.
Yeah, back to the clamp on style. I am still messing with them a bit though. Sensor-less is probably good for the LR but not as accurate as micro switches and on a smaller MPCNC that could cause issues.
Thanks for all the love everyone. I am not too worried about the hate, just worried that one weirdo will try and reverse engineer things and release them before me to try and say I stole the design from them. So I am keeping details hidden until everything is ready for a proper release.
This is not how things used to be done around here, but I am doing what I can to be as inclusive as possible. Before I could just release some files and let everyone take them for a spin.
I love the teases and what you’ve shown so far looks amazing. The teases are keeping me interested and anxious for more, which I think is the objective, right?
Really odd, but for me driving is the time when I get tons of ideas. When my hands are occupied with mundane tasks my mind races and for some reason I can visualize things really well.
I’d just added to my post above before you posted this and completely agree. Often when you’re intensely focused on something those damn trees block your view of the forest until you drive around a bend and they come into view again.
I have found my best ideas come when I am half asleep, and I can’t remember them in the morning. The ones I end up remembering are junk, which I suppose might suggest they aren’t that good in the first place, just my judgement is impaired at the time.
It’s strange the way the mind works. I’m a long lapsed private pilot and remember when I first started flying on cross countries my instructor would ask me if I had our destination airport in sight and for a while I wouldn’t until I was virtually right on top of it. And then, as if some switch had been thrown in my head, I started seeing every airport around from miles away. Although not actively flying any longer even from an airliner I can sit and spot airports. Over the years I’ve talked about that with a number of pilots and it seems a common happening that you go from not seeing airports at all when it seems a switch gets thrown and they stick out like a neon sign.
no offense and i am sure that it’s true. but it’s just like when you decide you want a blue car and then suddenly you notice how many blue cars there are and they are all around. We just never notice things till they become pertinent to us.
Having a place to land is kinda pertinent from the first time you leave the ground but learning that the inability to see it at the beginning as well as how that changes in an instant are common occurences is why it sticks in my mind.
