This one isn't directly laser related, but this section of the forum is a little dead lately- so please let it slide.
Back in 2005/06 (before I started experimenting with the laser stuff), I was really getting into CNC. I bought an older benchtop CNC lathe at a university auction. I saw that it had a serial port, so I set about writing a VB6 app to generate toolpath files and pipe them to the machine. I got a little carried away, and ended up creating a rendering preview feature for it as well. It worked good, but I didn't really have a huge use for it, so I parked it and the source code out on a web page for anyone who wanted it.
By the way, looking at the rendering screen, can you tell how I would have gravitated to laser rendered vector games?
Nearly 3 years later, I get an email from a guy in the Netherlands named Henk Verschuren. He tells me that he is going to expand on the project- I thought it sounded like a great idea. Today I got an email from him, and get this- he created a page for the project called http://www.mikesfreeinterface.com/
What a trip! I was very humbled. It is sort of a natural high though, when you know that something you did made someone's day way around the world, and I had even forgotten about it! Isn't the web something else?
OK, so what's next? I think first up will be a port of LazyMame to the LD2000 SDK. After that, I'm still thinking- if anyone has one of those "you know what would be cool..." ideas, throw it out here!
-Mike