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    Re: Considering the Centroid Acorn?

    I generally don't post to forums much at all, (here or elsewhere for that matter). I decided to respond with my experience as a counter point with the device and the support I have received. ...
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    Re: Considering the Centroid Acorn?

    Well I should also mention that it was more than "read the manual" he always pointed me to the area or pages where I needed to find the information. It was done in a much nicer tone than I really...
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    Re: Considering the Centroid Acorn?

    I got my Acorn board very early on and used it to convert a MicroKinetics machine. The MK software was primitive to say the least and was shy on features in a huge way.

    The Acorn conversion was...
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    Re: When will "acorn" release?

    Here is something else I did when doing the conversion: automatic tool setting!

    Here are a couple of tool set gauges I made to take advantage of the probe input that the Acorn has available.
    The...
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    Re: When will "acorn" release?

    I figured you would conjure up some shots.

    Beevo
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    Re: When will "acorn" release?

    It sure does and that makes the set up so easy. You fill out information or check a check box. So simple, even i can do it!....

    :)

    Beevo
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    Re: When will "acorn" release?

    Just shout out to us if you need help! This will be a fun project for you and the Acorn is quite flexible and reasonably easy to set up, more so now that they have the Wizard in the program. When I...
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    Re: When will "acorn" release?

    Look carefully, the software is included at no charge. The limitations that are likely to affect you the most on the free version are going to be:


    the number of tools (10 on basic, 200 on the...
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    Re: When will "acorn" release?

    A little about me, I got dragged kicking and fighting into the CNC hobby in November of '15 when I purchased a MicroKinetics CNC conversion of the ubiquitous RongFu/Grizzly/Jet/whoever bench mill. ...
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    Garbage on display

    A friend and I are building each one of the controllers. When we powered up the first one, we go many question marks. Garbage if you will. On power up, the display seems to change, pressing keys...
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