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by Vedor 5 days ago
It beings back memories, I was learning CNC machining mainly on Fanuc machines. They were old, reliable, but ultimately quiete crude machines. When for the first time I was working on a modern Sinumeric milling machine, I was amazed how user-friendly it was. Instead of writing g-code by hand, user could just use a menu to choose operation to perform, like machining an island or a pocket. You could say that Fanuc felt like C, and Sinumeric like Python. Well, not 1:1, but close enough for analogy.

The article though, it's an interesting read, but I hoped for more technical details. It ends abruptly too, so I hope for a continuation.

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Sorry for the weird ending, people pressured me into writing down exactly what I did to get it to receive data and I haven’t had the time to continue it haha

Didn’t expect it to land on HN too

Same here. "Old piece of junk"? They were all we had!

(Kids these days...).

It’s all we have nowadays too! Who can expect a 20 year old to have enough money to get anything better haha