Can you engrave wood with a scene, or a face? Make little personalized key fobs? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On February 14, 2017 8:52:29 PM EST, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >I got the new used chinee laser sorta set up but I have not yet >connected up the water cooler, will do that tomorrow. Just been lazy >and trying to figure out the software that can make designs and control > >it. It's actually not bad for free chinee software and there are lots >of tutorials about it. Fairly large user community on these things, >they all seem to use pretty much the same bits and controllers and >software. Yesterday I made some shapes in a CAD program I will try to >cut when I get it working to make some of these pieces to see if I >could >make a "tiled" table top or something with different colors of wood. > >http://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution/equithirds/ > >The problem is I can't get the old desktop XP machine to talk to it, I >finally figured maybe I should look at the CD that the guy gave me and >it has some USB drivers on it so I guess I will try to load them >tomorrow, see what happens with that. The computer does not say it >needs some new drivers, it seemed to connect to the laser controller >for >a short time, but then it wouldn't talk to it again. But maybe that is > >the problem, I'll have to remember how to make it load drivers even >though it doesn't think it needs them. I vaguely recall having to do >this with some other thing not long ago, so that is probably what it >is. I hate computers and all the foolish nonsense that goes along with > >them. or maybe winders XP. > >RTFM!!! > >-- >--FT >Winston Churchill: >“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, >large or petty, >never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. >Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might >of the enemy.” > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
