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  • Whew!  Dodged that bullet after much handwringing.  Dunno when I'll try Win 10 again, if ever. Anyway, here's a zip with the Cocoa Bird problem fixed, and - no big surprise - two additional fonts, both licensed under SIL OFL.  Cocoa Little Princess…
  • [EDIT: Please stand by - I've found a very odd problem with the Cocoa Bird face, but I'm in the middle of switching to Windows 10, so may be off-the-air for ??? period of time. In this latest version I've kept the font shapes all the same, but have…
  • [EDIT: Hopefully the last of these, but see next message] https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8l6x9uytysytln/hersheydata 03.zip?dl=0
  • Here's the files but with two additional fonts compared with May 26 version: [EDIT: Ho hum, added yet another, see next message for the link] https://www.dropbox.com/s/x37ayun6e08ec5j/hersheydata 02.zip?dl=0
  • In case you would like the new hershey-related files, I have zipped them and put them in dropbox.com  This is my first time using dropbox, so I'm not 100% confident that I've "got the hang of it".  8^) Yes, it is huge isn't it (and my own personal …
  • Something like this?  (I chose the word "sample" rather than "table", because I thought that perhaps to a non-technical person generating a "table" might sound more intimidating than generating a "sample".  No biggy.) I hope you had a good time at …
  • I'm thinking that with all the font choices, user may need some help choosing the "perfect" one.  So...I've suggested a bit of an expansion to the action dropdown in hershey.inx.  Below is an image to illustrate:
  • I've been fontifying quite a bit, as you can see.  I wish I had been more consistent in a number of my design decisions, but overall I'm pretty pleased.  Not really professional quality, but definitely usable for eggbot I would venture.  Your pointi…
  • Added another cuppla fonts - am running out of styles...could use some suggestions.  or not.
  • Glad you like them!  8^) 1.  Perhaps we could acknowledge the designer while making it clear that the designer is not responsible for this incarnation, by doing something like:  prepending "Like " or "Derived from " or "Not " or "Based on " or "Egg…
  • I added two more fonts since earlier post.
  • Oh, silly me!  I shoulda been able to figure that out.  Thanks much for the digging!!  8^)
  • I can't make my image show up inline.  I click the "Insert Image" icon, and fill in the URL - I've tried flickr and imgur, and all I get inline is an icon for no image.  I must be doing something really stupid, but I don't know what it is!!??
  • Well, are there any particular fonts you have been hankering for? I'd be glad to take a hack at it - my results would only be mediocre-to-fairly good, but I'd be happy for the practice.  Up to a small handful of fonts?  (There are plenty of free-to-…
  • I've been pondering this topic a bunch.  My inclination for the moment is to not attempt what is by all accounts the hugely complicated task of automating the process. Nonetheless, to try to educate myself about the snags involved, I tried manually…
  • Do you by any chance know where one might obtain the miniature motorized turntable?
  • I wonder if the problem is akin to the one I experienced with the servo:  The servo connector had been manufactured with _way_ too much slop in the sockets that engage the header pins on the EBB. This yielded a terminally intermittent servo.
  • I wonder if there might also be an element of not getting the pen arm horizontal when the pen tip touches the object. If the pen is not perpendicular to the sphere, the geometry will be off - and this is the sort of thing that might happen when cha…
  • How about if you made a "Gallery" category here in your forums - and place it high up in the Categories list.  That could also have a plus side to it, in that you might see a little additional traffic to your site?  Plus, it seems a kind of logical …
  • I didn't get around to looking at my 'scope because the serial timeout problem seemed to have magically gone away.  (Well, actually, the eggbot hadn't had much exercise since I first reported this problem - having too much fun programming.) BUT, it…
  • Hi Windell... Thanks for the info.  I had been thinking of using one of the slots as an index/hold-down method for an appastrapus I'm going to try to make, to help hold the pen orthogonal to the distal arm.  I actually bought the engraving tool from…
  • OK, I found the checkmark.
  • Hi Lenore... Wow, thanks for the prompt reply! I have the Deluxe Eggbot, purchased about a month or so ago (Santa got it for me, so I'm not sure of the exact date.)  I can't see any checkmark near the screw terminals.  The EBB is screened version 2…