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SIEG X2 Mini Mill CNC Build - Component Selection
In the last post I outlined my plan for building a CNC mini mill from a set of SIEG X2 castings. As the first step I wanted to order the parts for the mill itself, ignoring the steppers, controllers,...
View ArticleSneak Peek of the New TouchDRO Version
It's been awhile since the last major TouchDRO version release and I'm getting an increasing number of emails asking if I'm still developing the app. The answer is "definitely yes", and the new version...
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Virtual Layout Feature Preview
In the last post I showed some of the updates coming to the next version of TouchDRO. The new version will include a lot of tweaks, UI changes and improvements aimed to make the DRO even more flexible...
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Blu-DRO Now Uses the TouchDRO iGaging DRO Adapter
I get a fair number of emails asking if I sell fully assemble board, in a box, ready to go. Although I have seriously thought about offering a fully turn-key version of the iGaging DRO controller, I...
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Shahe 5203 and 5204 Digital Linear DRO Scales Overview
For several years the so-called "remote DRO" capacitive scales, manufactured by Wenzhou Sanhe Measuring Instrument Co.,Ltd. have been the mainstay of budget do-it-yourself DRO setups. These scales...
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TouchDRO Supports new Chinese DRO Scales
TouchDRO "Black" Adapter Support All of The Shown Digital Readout Scales Now A few weeks ago, I finally found some time to experiment with the new Shahe Digital Linear Scales 5203-xxx and 5204-xxx....
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Adapter Board for Shahe and iGaging Capacitive DRO Scales
TouchDRO adapter for iGaging and Shahe scales is designed to work with several models of 3V capacitive linear DRO scales manufactured by Sanhe Measuring Instrument Co.,Ltd. and distributed under...
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Updated DRO Adapter for iGaging Scales
It's been almost two years since the release of last revision of TouchDRO Adapter for iGaging and Shahe scales. During that time I've learned a lot from the interaction with the customers and received...
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Grizzly G0720 Motor Power Supply Repair - Part 1
A couple of years ago, I sold my Grizzly G0463 milling machine and upgraded to the larger Grizzly G0720R (SIEG SX4). To this point, various SIEG machines I've owned have been pretty reliable but my...
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Grizzly G0720 Motor Power Supply Repair - Part 2
Right before Christmas, my three-year-old Grizzly G0720 (AKA SIEG SX4) milling machine's main controller board released some of it's magic smoke. In the previous post I went over the initial...
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Dedicated DRO Adapter for Shahe Scales
A few years ago, Shanhe Measurement Instrument Co. introduced a new line of capacitive scales called Shahe "Digital Linear Scale with Remote Square Display" (model numbers 5403-150A/200A, etc.)....
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Introducing the New TouchDRO Adapter DIY Kit
From the start, my goal for TouchDRO was to create a do-it-yourself DRO project that would allow people to build a powerful digital readout as inexpensively as possible. To make the project more...
View ArticleNew TouchDRO Adapters Coming Soon
Since the pre-assembled TouchDRO Adapter for Glass DRO scales has been out of stock for over a month, I got a fair number of emails and Facebook messages asking when the board will be in stock. The...
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Upgraded Adapters for iGaging and Shahe Scales
If you've been following my Facebook page, you probably know that for the last few months I've been working on redesigning the TouchDRO adapters for Shahe and iGaging scales to use the ESP32...
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More Info About New TouchDRO Adapter
After my last post I received a few dozen emails from people with follow-up questions. Some of them were covered in the last post, but I suspect that it was too long and most people mostly skimmed it...
View ArticleCommon iGaging EZ-View DRO Problems
One of the most common problems that TouchDRO users report is jumping of the position redout. There are a few different flavors of this problem, but the common factor is that the position jumps up or...
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State of The TouchDRO Project
I haven't posted much on the blog over the last year, so the number of emails asking if I'm still alive and/or if the TouchDRO project is dead has been steadily going up. One of the main complaints is...
View ArticleTouchDRO V3 Status Update
Last week, I got back to working on the next release of the TouchDRO Android application. There is still much work left before it's fully ready for public Beta testing but until then, the application...
View ArticleTouchDRO V3 Status Update - December 2021
It's been a while since the last TouchDRO V3 status update, so it's a good time for one. Over the last few months, I had a chance to spend a good amount of time working on the application and have...
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Tool Offset Memory in TouchDRO V3
Virtually, every modern DRO comes with some flavor of a persistent tool offset memory that lets the user enter offsets for some commonly used tools and recall them as needed. An obvious prerequisite...
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TouchDRO V3 Almost Ready
Over the last several months, I've been concentrating on getting V3 of the TouchDRO application out. Since the start of April, I've been testing it in my garage shop, and at this point, the application...
View ArticleTouchDRO V3 Finally Out
My first full-time software developer job was at a company called Sunstone Circuits. I was hired to work on various home-grown scripts and programs they used to process orders and manage inventory. At...
View ArticleWhat's Next for TouchDRO
A couple of months ago, after several years of work, I released the new version of TouchDRO - TouchDRO V3. It took much more time than I expected, but overall I'm really happy with the result. The...
View ArticleTouchDRO Plus Available for Beta Testing
A few hours ago I published the first build of TouchDRO Plus to the Google Play Store's Beta track. I've been working on it almost full time since March, and most of the core functionality has been in...
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Reference Image Function in TouchDRO Plus
One of the new functions in TouchDRO Plus is the Reference Image overlay in the Graphical View display. In essence, it allows you to set an arbitrary image as the background for a workspace and...
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