Mindblown: a blog about philosophy…not
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Welcome to My Ramblings!
You know what it’s like. You can spend hours sorting a problem and when it’s finished take a bow. Many moons later you say to yourself… ‘Now how did I do that’ Well no more, I’m documenting it all here. Of course it might help you too.
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Accessing files on a Win11 PC connected by Wi-Fi to a vlan subnet
Senario Symptoms Although PC ‘B’ has ‘File and Printer Sharing’ enabled, PC ‘A’ is unable to ping or access file shares on PC ‘B’. Cause Normally a Wi-Fi connection is made a ‘Public’ network with ‘File and Printer Sharing’ disabled. Even after setting the network type to ‘Private’ and enabling ‘File and Printer Sharing’ shares…
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Mach3: Missing Motor Tuning Menu
If your Mach3 Motor Tuning menu has suddenly disappeared, the cause is almost always the same — and the fix is simple. ✅ Why it happens Mach3 relies on a small component called ntgraph.ocx to draw the acceleration and speed graphs used in Motor Tuning. When Mach3 is first installed, this OCX file is registered…
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Mach3. Installing a USB controller (BSMCEO4U-PP)
After designing and building a new router, I initially used UGS (Universal GCode Sender) with an Arduino running GRBL. While it worked well most of the time, I occasionally encountered issues—UGS would lose keyboard control while the tool was moving, leading to botched jobs and even broken tools. That was enough frustration for me to…