TouchDRO 2.5 Release Notes
I'm really excited to finally say that after many months of "Beta" testing, version 2.5 of TouchDRO has been released to "Production". Even though it didn't earn a full digit reales number of 3.0, this...
View ArticleChoosing the Right TouchDRO Adapter for Your Scales
One of the main design goals for the TouchDRO project was to create a flexible modular do-it-yourself digital readout for hobbyists and makers alike. Since raw scale position decoding happens in the...
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Connecting iGaging Scales to TouchDRO Controller
If you read some of the earlier posts on this blog you will quickly see that the times were much simpler four years ago when it comes to iGaging scales: there was only one kind and red wire was "Vcc",...
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SIEG X2 Mini Mill CNC Build - Introduction
Some of you might remember that several years ago I used to own a Harbor Freight Mini Mill, AKA SIEG X2. At one point I upgraded the X-Y table to the LMS large table assembly and the old small table...
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SIEG X2 Mini Mill CNC Build - Component Selection
In the last post I outlined my plan for building a CNC mini mill from a set of SIEG X2 castings. As the first step I wanted to order the parts for the mill itself, ignoring the steppers, controllers,...
View ArticleSneak Peek of the New TouchDRO Version
It's been awhile since the last major TouchDRO version release and I'm getting an increasing number of emails asking if I'm still developing the app. The answer is "definitely yes", and the new version...
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Virtual Layout Feature Preview
In the last post I showed some of the updates coming to the next version of TouchDRO. The new version will include a lot of tweaks, UI changes and improvements aimed to make the DRO even more flexible...
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Blu-DRO Now Uses the TouchDRO iGaging DRO Adapter
UPDATE Sep. 7, 2020Al stopped selling Blu-DRO boxes earlier this year. As I've been getting a large number of inqueries about Blu-DRO or some other enclosure for the TouchDRO adapters, I decided to try...
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Shahe 5403 and 5204 Digital Linear DRO Scales Overview
For several years the so-called "remote DRO" capacitive scales, manufactured by Wenzhou Sanhe Measuring Instrument Co.,Ltd. have been the mainstay of budget do-it-yourself DRO setups. These scales...
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TouchDRO Supports new Chinese DRO Scales
TouchDRO "Black" Adapter Support All of The Shown Digital Readout Scales Now A few weeks ago, I finally found some time to experiment with the new Shahe Digital Linear Scales 5403-xxx and 5204-xxx....
View ArticleAdapter Board for Shahe and iGaging Capacitive DRO Scales
title="Capacitive Scale DRO Adapter" width="640">TouchDRO adapter for iGaging and Shahe scales is designed to work with several models of 3V capacitive linear DRO scales manufactured by Sanhe...
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Updated DRO Adapter for iGaging Scales
It's been almost two years since the release of last revision of TouchDRO Adapter for iGaging and Shahe scales. During that time I've learned a lot from the interaction with the customers and received...
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Grizzly G0720 Motor Power Supply Repair - Part 1
A couple of years ago, I sold my Grizzly G0463 milling machine and upgraded to the larger Grizzly G0720R (SIEG SX4). To this point, various SIEG machines I've owned have been pretty reliable but my...
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Grizzly G0720 Motor Power Supply Repair - Part 2
Right before Christmas, my three-year-old Grizzly G0720 (AKA SIEG SX4) milling machine's main controller board released some of it's magic smoke. In the previous post I went over the initial...
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Dedicated DRO Adapter for Shahe Scales
A few years ago, Shanhe Measurement Instrument Co. introduced a new line of capacitive scales called Shahe "Digital Linear Scale with Remote Square Display" (model numbers 5403-150A/200A, etc.)....
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Introducing the New DYI DRO Adapter Kit
From the start, my goal for TouchDRO was to create a do-it-yourself DRO project that would allow people to build a powerful digital readout as inexpensively as possible. To make the project more...
View ArticleNew TouchDRO Adapters Coming Soon
Since the pre-assembled TouchDRO Adapter for Glass DRO scales has been out of stock for over a month, I got a fair number of emails and Facebook messages asking when the board will be in stock. The...
View ArticleUpgraded Adapters for iGaging and Shahe Scales
title="New 32-Bit TouchDRO Adapters" width="640"> If you've been following my Facebook page, you probably know that for the last few months I've been working on redesigning the TouchDRO adapters...
View ArticleMore Info About New TouchDRO Adapter
After my last post I received a few dozen emails from people with follow-up questions. Some of them were covered in the last post, but I suspect that it was too long and most people mostly skimmed it...
View ArticleCommon iGaging EZ-View DRO Problems
One of the most common problems that TouchDRO users report is jumping of the position redout. There are a few different flavors of this problem, but the common factor is that the position jumps up or...
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