I will! I’m going with my father-in-law. He’ll bring a field forge and an anvil, and I’ll bring arduino machines. It’s great how the makers movement include both new and old ways!
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Bah - I’m struggling with the bdring pen servo grbl library. I’m able to make the servo react when using M03, but nothing happens when moving Z using regular G0/1 as the library is supposed to do… I know this is far from this forums scope, but you never know who comes by!!
Don’t mind my mess!! The different versions of grbl libraries got messed up. Clean install, and now it works. Eggbot and MPCNC maker faire party coming up!
Edit #3: it sure is confusing with libraries built on libraries built on libraries! One day I’ll hopefully understand the confusing organization of development environments.
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You and your father in law are almost an entire maker faire on your own. Should be a fun and exhausting weekend.
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Haha, you should see the rest of the family! My brother finished his flight simulator panel. Milling them turned out too complex, making everything fit. So when the creator made a printable version, we opted for that: https://www.737diysim.com/$38%20MCP%20BUILD
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What, the whole fam is creative, lucky! The most creative thing my sister ever does is paint her nails, or sculpt her hair with enough aquanet to start another hole in the ozone layer…
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I always think of this strip when I see a non-canonical Supes… And yes, I’m leaving it with the Reddit NSFW blurring despite a lack of complete nudity…
I honestly don’t know how to bridge your lovely cartoon strip with my previous post… my wife did say something funny just now, that might work: “Aren’t you afraid that some people might find you a little weird? With your machines and stuff?”
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Random reply to Barry’s Superman/Supergirl post where she’s trying to bait him into Do You Want to Build A Snowman?… And I’ve spent all morning tracing code through the debugger, trying to figure out why values are getting erased from the database. So I got a little loopy. Mea Culpa… 
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Actually the green thing is the photoconductive drum, it is charged (-) and then the ligth (laser nowadays) discharge where the toner (-) needs to be attracted to draw the image.
Then transfer roller attract the toner while the paper is between them. (color means 4 drums and a transfert belt)
Not so important but as I fix them and train field technician for a bit more than 30 years now …
I’ve been enjoying your beautiful photos of Norway for many minutes while I try not to melt in the autumn here in Brazil.
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Sorry for such a late and now useless comment (I got here looking for another info).
I think you should have sold that MFP printer and gone to a local dealer if you wanted one to take apart… This stuff usually has a 2nd and sometimes a 3rd life (3 to 5 years each) but really, in our case, the older the better because the mechanical parts are more and more specific (90’s units would give us more pleasure).
when I started my MPCNC project, I had a choice of 45 different 11x17/A3 units + optional document finisher/loader/paper trays, on the way to destruction… none of them have the right motor or sensor I needed.
I did pick up a few parts but they have been in a crate ever since and I knew it because I did it years ago… The wiring, connectors, cabinet and floor wheels are the only things I’ve used since.
Love the eggbot! That’s one cool little machine.
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On a moral level - you are correct, but on a practical level I don’t have time for such… considering the size, I didn’t get much interesting loot, except for quite a few smooth rods! They are very nice, perfectly straigth and hard steel, perfect for different sorts builds.
@vicious1 the makers faire just finished! The size was quite small, compared to where you guys go. I’m very happy still, minding the fact that we live almost on the north pole
I’m very happy I went, I got to meet quite a few maker-minded-people. There was even a guy in town that has ordered v1-stuff from you! But like many, never finished because of kids and family got in the way. I made a few connections that might be interested in forming a makerspace or a club in some kind of way to meet up and tinker together, so that is great.
But mostly the days were filled with plotting eggs and pieces of paper with fortnite figures, flowers and easters greatings 
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It’s great you can get together with others and share your projects. I was always most impressed with my MPCNC journey with the the community of sharing knowledge and experience.
In my other life I used to have to go to Oulu Finland well north of Helsinki. We had a major customer that was, how do I say…DEMANDING 
A few of the trips were in winter and the sun would appear briefly at noon. The bay up there would freeze over. At night we would drink some local drink that was greenish tint and tasted like antifreeze. And eat lots of reindeer. I never knew them anyways to have reindeer.
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Saving my old 3018 from the trash. Making one of the axis into rotary axis to attempt making chess pieces. It’s a work in progress…
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That is the best part!!!
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Mintu! It’s awful! Finland sure has an ambience of its own, I whish to go there more.
There’s actually an active makerspace in town, but it’s at the muncipality’s local youth club. I was approached by one of the guys working there and he asked me to come visit. I told him I’m waaaay to old to be in a youth club, but was told that since the scene is so small, they welcome any age. Yay!
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Sigh… the eggbot didn’t go as well as expected. Controlling the servo from the arduino is a hassle. With long plottings I have to help it to lift up… I’ve tried with a keyestudio cnc shield v3 as well, but the servo still loses power and position. Do you have any ideas about boards that are simple enough to controll two stepper motors and one servo? (or is there any other way to simply hook up a servo to an arduino that isn’t so vulnerable to jitters and noise?)