Part 3 of the hamtools series: how the two bits I’m proudest of work — keying real CW over a jittery network without wrecking the timing, and keeping one logbook in sync across every machine with no server.
Part 2 of the hamtools series: a tour of the three components — cwsd, xlog2 and usb-paddles — what each does and how to install and configure it.
How a pile of annoyances — flaky contest tooling, an unmaintained logger, wanting to operate from the couch — grew into hamtools: cwsd, xlog2 and usb-paddles, a small suite that runs a whole ham station over the network. Part 1: the story.
After quite a lot of fiddling around with settings like spindle speed, feedrate, bits and what not, I have found the golden settings which allow me to mill PCBs suitable for smd work.
Last Friday I attended a Siemens event in Brasov, called Curious Minds. There I had the fortunate chance of meeting some of the programming gods.