[Coco] MM/1 monitor solutions?

[gene heskett]

On 3/3/25 15:38, Richard E. Crislip via Coco wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 08:42:14 -0500
> gene heskett via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> <Big Snip>
>
> Take care of #1everybody. Nobody else will do it for you. And I thank
> Dennis for this mailing list I'm still subbed to.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
>
> Its great to hear from you Gene. Keep on trucking.
Mostly off-topic:

I'll have to admit its getting to be a drag. My diabetes is worse, legs 
going
to hell and I'll have been alone for 5 years this coming Pearl Harbor Day.
  COPD took her. Had that music teacher 31 great years.

OTOH, I'm now 91 and still here. And still impressing the frogs with stuff
I do. Getting conscious of my power bill, I just this week brought a
bananapi-m5 with 20Tb of SSD's rigged as an 11Tb raid6, online as a backup
server based on rsync. Draws 18 watts running acc a kill-a-watt. Maybe 25
watts with its 12" monitor.

Got into 3d printers about 5 years back and just unpacked a Sovol SV08 MAX
to get its parts in out of the rain yesterday. Now trying to find a 
place for it
in this house. Difficult, will need help.

I've designed a vice screw for woodworkers, unlike anything available
today that needs some of its parts printed 4 to 6 up, so a BIG, fast printer
is needed if sales pick up.

I can make the screws out of hard maple using g-code I wrote at about
2 a day, but printing the half nuts, housings and other stuff to make a
complete assembly is about a 2 week job per screw using beginner
$500 printers. I've rebuilt an Ender 5 Plus, about 10x faster than the OOTB
version, that helps considerably, and this 500mm square corexy printer
should bring that time down to a screw per long day.  Along the way I've
learned OpenSCAD to design the printable stuff.

That backup I did yesterday morning disclosed that I have 1.3 million
files in /home/gene on this box. G-code to drive printers is bulky stuff
since the slicers unroll all loops. That is the diff between printing which
is additive, and LinuxCNC, which is subtractive.

Keeps me out of the bars don'tcha know.

Take care of #1 & #2. Good advice for all of my long time friends here.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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