Anyone heard any news on the future of the Carbide 3d probe for the Shapeoko 3?
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August 18th + 6 weeks = Sept 29.
Sept 29 to now = 15 additional weeks.
Going on 22 weeks since announcement without any info. This time next month and it’ll be half a year.
Did this project fail? Too expensive? Too unreliable? Too little interest? Too much else going on?
It doesn’t need to be complicated, just a quick update.
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Most likely they’re all hands on deck for GRBL 1.1 release. Small team, can’t R&D everything at once. Plus, you want to be stable at Carbide Motion 4.0 before investing time into programming all the probing routines into the program…
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Development ALWAYS takes longer than you think… and as Winston mentions, GRBL 1.1 is all encompassing with the large collection of infrastructure and tool-chain tweaks C3D has outlined in the 2017 post. I’m looking forward to active probing finally being integrated into Carbide Motion workflow, having been spoiled by Estlcam.
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Sure, I get that. None-the-less, I think 30 seconds to post, “Sorry, this is going to take longer than we though. We’ll update in Feb 2017” would not distract from the core mission at hand.
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