On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 19:24 +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On 3/11/07, Greg Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does Elektor make it to the US shores? Has anybody taken the twist out > > of their milling machine project? Looks 1/2 reasonable from their Jan > > front cover pic: > > > > http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=30&CategoryID=5&List=1&SortField=8&Level=1&ProductID=2794 > > The price buying it online is no more than buying it in the shop. > Disadvantage is that they use some online payment I haven't heard of. > I used to buy Elektor on a regular basis, but stopped last year due to > some changes in the editorials, so I lost that January example, and my > local magazine shop had already sent back (or shredded) the issue. > > Since Elektor shows up in UK, NL, FR and DE, (at least) I went over to > the German site to see what they have, and there are actually more > info on the machine there. (Germans seem to want more info up ahead > before they buy online :-) ) > > The machine (Profiler) is a kit developed by a Belgian manufacturer, > Colinbus, (www.colinbus.com) exclusively for Elektor readers. More > (free) info on the machine (in German only) > http://www.elektor.de/Default.aspx?tabid=27&mid=398&ctl=Buy&buy=D0701026.pdf&emid=403&art=5550964&Free=True > Kit price + shipping EUR 1677 containing: > * all mechanical parts and step motors > * all control electronics on 2 pcb (complete and tested) > * The multi-tool mill from Ferm + fittings > * all software for control + gerber converter > The thing is complete so the buyer only need to assembly the parts. > > The "Profiler" can be ordered online, at least on the German version > of Elektor, www.elektor.de. What to me first looked like an > interesting do-it-yourself miller became an expencive > mount-it-yourself miller where I have little hope that the interfaces > are documented in such a way that I can fit the software to what I > want, but the price is too high for me to find out. > > Hope this helped a little. > > Regards,
I realised the same thing after posting Svenn. In reality, it is really a commercial kit disguised as a Elektor project. I thought that a post to Elektor might stimulate interest in a FOSS interface. It now looks so locked down it is not worth the effort. Sad. They have produced some good high-end-for-a-hobbyist stuff over the years. (x-y plotter, 1-kW audio amp, high-end FM tuner, etc.) I think that most of those brains are now in nursing homes or graves. When I was a contractor in the '80s & '90s, Elektor *was* part of my dietary intake. Now, most of the time, I flick through the contents at the magazine rack & put it back. -- Greg Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user