Originally Posted by Death Adder Please see:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12054
We've been discussing starting up a group of people to produce cad/cam products (free, probably open source) and educational programs. Basically we'd like to start producing useful cad/cam applications. Anyone else up for it? |
As Death Adder mentioned, the two of us have had some dialog about creating tools, interactive FAQs, calculators, simulators, unit converters, etc. for the CNCzone community. Not us per se, but a larger gathering of interested members both with and without programming skills.
We could, for example, runs some polls to determine what 'zonies would like to have made available.
There might be an "algorithm discussion" area. No specific projects there, but a sharing of code snippets and solutions to things so that others could use the info. in whatever language they prefer.
I can see non-programmers adding their input: "here is what you need to consider when writing loop-tuning software" and so on.
Then of course, a projects area. Perhaps broken down as it would relate to building a CNC machine: mechanical, power supplies, motors, and so on.
There are lots of possibilities. For now, I'm just curious to see how many are out there with/without programming skills having a desire to be a part of something fun.
Today I sent an email to cncadmin/Paul to see what his thoughts are. Who knows, maybe he wants to see this go in different direction. What are your thoughts?
Evodyne
