Version 2.298 online.

[ArtF]

Kirk:

    Sounds like all the updates worked. :)

Have fun
Art

[danmauch]

  I tried both cameras. One is RGB and the other is YUY2. They both work!
I really like the YUY2 because it has better focusing.
  Is there any plans to incorporate a external structured light source similar to the little one I emailed you off line?

Dan Mauch

Hi All:

  Version 2.2987 is online with both RGB, and YUY2 video types. I also found what Im pretty sure was the issue people
were having. This should now work with the majority of cameras I think.. Ive noticed most have both, or at least 1 o these formats.

Thx
Art

[ArtF]

Dan:
In the fall, Ill probably offer some sort of way to trigger an external light source.. or to load photos from any source you wish..

Or at least thats the plan.. I just wanted ot get it running for the summer so people coudl play with it, in the fall we'll have
a better of idea of what can be done.

Art

[KKirk]

OK. I'm pretty proud of this one finished with a 1/8 " ball.  It is sooooo Cool!

Karl

[ArtF]

Karl:

Congrats, that looks excellent. My workshop is only now getting ready so I can cut my own.
You guys are all beating me to the punch.. I gotta learn to hold code back till I get to cut. :)

Seriously , great work..

Art

[Ya-Nvr-No]

nice job Karl, fun to see isn't it?

Art... if you didn't live so close the the NorthPole and Santa ;D
or you could dig a tunnel to your workshop.

[ArtF]

:)

Coldest spring I think Ive ever seen.. .. :)

Art

[KKirk]

Thanks Ya-Nvr-No

  I just can't put it down.  I stare and stare and keep thinking to myself.  It just can't be done, I know it can't be done, but there it is.  Thanks again Art for not holding back the code.  I think, just maybe Art is thinking the same thing, "it just can't be done".  It's going to church with me tomorrow.  There will be some guys there that will be very impressed!  A couple of weeks ago I gave a short talk in which I quoted Art.  And said when was the last time you did something that impressed yourself?

[Mooselake]

Coldest spring I think Ive ever seen.. ..

Here, too, until just recently.  A good part of Feburary (I know, not spring...) was -20F at night, new outdoor wood boiler was eating a full cord a week.

Although we must just be imagining it, saw recently that so far 2015 is the hottest year on record.  :o

Kirk

[Mooselake]

The replacement laptop (Lenovo G50-80 with an i5-5200U) came yesterday, with 64 bit Windows 8.1 and a built in webcam (IDs as Lenovo EasyCamera).  Using that camera, and 2.2987, I tried a couple different shots, one at 320x240 YUV2. another at 640x480 YUV2, and created stl files from both with a bit under 80K vertices.  Both stl files had holes and gave very weird results (top surface all horizontal triangles) with slic3r 1.2.6.  Netfabb basic fixed them without any problem and slic3r seemed to work fine.  Netfabb's a pretty handy stl file checker and fixer and reorienter, and the basic version is free.

This is on a clean install of essentially everything, only the license file copied from another machine, fwiw.

Still haven't gotten it connected to the Printrbot, so nothing printed yet.

Kirk

[ArtF]

Hi Kirk:

  Weird, I cant think of why that error is reported, mine are clean. VCarve loaded mine to day and I cut 2 ..
They worked out the best for me yet, Ill post a video and photos soon..

Art

[ArtF]

Heres a few pictures...doesnt do them justice,..

Art

[ArtF]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJxXuz ... e=youtu.be

  Engraving heads on my mill

Art

[Mooselake]

Weird, I cant think of why that error is reported, mine are clean. VCarve loaded mine to day and I cut 2 ..
They worked out the best for me yet, Ill post a video and photos soon..

Slic3r's particularly picky about stl files with errors in them.

I suggest running a few files through netfabb basic; it's hard to beat for stl file checking.

I just tried a couple that I'd made on the quad core W7 desktop, with the LifeCam Cinema.  They were error free, so perhaps it's related to using the Lenovo cheap camera.  I did another one there, it had one hole.  I'll switch to that machine and attach it.

Kirk

[Mooselake]

And here it is.

Kirk