Slight warifuru sidetrack
I put a lot of effort in to the front end of warifuru looking at use cases, other software, and how people use laser cutters. Also did some crash-course learning of Qt5 — which I like way more than Cocoa/iOS — and got a sketch together that could parse DXF in to an abstract model […]
Win10 now supported
Way easier than I thought to port a Qt5 app from OSX to Win10. My goal now is to have a -0001 release finished by the end of January.
Windows support for warifuru
Semester is over, I’ll grade on Monday, then I get all winter break to focus on warifuru. Question: Which versions of Windows should I support other than 10? I currently have Win10 in VMWare on my Mac (for SolidWorks) and Qt5 is just a slog with only 8Gb of RAM allocated. I have a new […]
almost a winner!
Came in as a runner-up in the Shapeways/DJI contest. Here’s my entry, I’ll post the buoy/bomb to Thingiverse in the near future.
Focus and adjustment tools for the lasersaur
tldr; make or buy Lasersaurs have a manual focus: you need to loosen a screw, adjust the height of the lens based on the material you’re cutting, then tighten the screw. I was having some focusing problems where the lens wasn’t perfectly perpendicular with the incoming laser and the bottom of the focusing tube would […]
warifuru features wishlist
I learn a lot by observing the process of how other designers and engineers actually do their work. Here’s a look at mine, this is my catch-all outline of desired features (as of today) for warifuru. I keep this list in OmniGraffle but what I should do is start a bug/features tracking system. Sourceforge has […]
warifuru personas^h^h^h^h^h^h^h end users
(I know, I know, that leaves us with two spaces between “warifuru” and “end”, but “^hend ” is a little harder to read. Nobody under the age of Grampa Simpson even gets that joke in the first place.) So, one of my first questions when I was thinking up features for warifuru was, “who is […]
warifuru – a new interface for laser cutters
I started using laser cutters a decade ago and was a little surprised at the primitive controlling software. Our big-money, brand-name laser cutter came with a printer driver for Windows and nothing else. We did all our work in Illustrator, saved a copy to a flash drive, copied it to the PC in front of […]
Welcome to the -0001 version of my new site!
Finally found a WP theme I like and a couple of days to update my portfolio, enjoy!