I’d Buy That For Five Dollars

March 18, 2020 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Stephen solves his VFD EMC problem and surfaces the spill board on the CNC machine. Parker starts working on Zebra Printers and learning ZPL and JS.

Parker

  • Python PDF
    • Looked at peoples suggestions and none really did what I needed
    • FPDF will do for now since I have made a template already
    • Most suggestions are building HTML then converting to PDF which is fine but not really a good solution
  • Zebra Printers
    • ZPL or Zebra Programming Language
      • ZT230 
      • ZD420
    • My process so far for making a ZPL webapp thingy
      • Zebra Designer 3 for Developers
        • Makes the Template
        • Push Template over to printer
        • Use Variables for fields you want to “input”
      • Zebra Setup Utilities
        • Allows talking to the printer easily 
      • Zebra Browser Print SDK
        • Makes a USB bridge to a local web server
      • Web Server for Chrome
        • Used to point to where your application is at
      • Application is written in Javascript

Stephen

  • CNC is fully functional!

    • Calibrated the three axis
      • Ran cable “tubes”
      • Set up spindle control
      • Table surfacing
        • 4 flute
        • 2&1/32 in diameter surfacing bit
        • 12,000 RPM
        • 100ipm
        • 0.005-0.01 DOC
  • VFD EMC

    • Pages 10-12
    • VFD cables are to have the shield (screen) connected at both ends
    • This is an impedance thing
    • Shield should be at least 80% coverage
    • Foil and braid is best but most expensive typically

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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!