About how long would you say? A month? Two months?Just a heads up..........Mine took quite a long time to get after I received the shipping notification. It did finally come though.
Not specific to the TimSav kits, but I bought a vector network analyzer for antennas and it has been sitting at the Shanghai airport for over a month now. Talking to the company and others who bought one around the same time, they say 60 days is the earliest you'll see stuff showing up now thanks to the massive backlog. The company I bought from were starting to ship replacements out for anyone who had been waiting more than 60 days, but they started having to re-ship so many that they changed the policy and now it is just a wait it out sort of thing.About how long would you say? A month? Two months?
Yay! When did you place the order?My TimSav is in-country! I checked the tracking and it is in San Francisco and should be here by Thursday!
Sweet! I hope mine arrives soon.My neighbor just delivered my package!
I know that's confusing, but he happens to also be my mailman. Yes, it's weird and kind of Twilight Zone like.
It's a nice little package of goodies. I'm going to get to work!
Oh boy, you’re making me scared to start mine! It’s scheduled to arrive tomorrow though!I have it mechanically and electrically assembled but now I'm at the point where I knew things would go bad. I would be willing to pay another $89 to have had the thing flashed and the grbl installed. I have hours of messing around invested with trying to get it to work. I know it's probably just some simple thing I'm overlooking.
I've never done anything with Arduino stuff and Ed's instructions go really fast for someone trying to follow along and is totally new to the subject.
When it's time to adjust the settings in the grbl controller and try to open the com port I get this:
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I'm also not seeing the device in file explorer.
I'm pretty sure I have the correct com port selected.
Any ideas where I've gone off the rails?
Frustrated.
If you every get it figured out, maybe make a short video to post on how to get it done. I haven't started on mine, mainly because i am concerned about this part of the build.I have it mechanically and electrically assembled but now I'm at the point where I knew things would go bad. I would be willing to pay another $89 to have had the thing flashed and the grbl installed. I have hours of messing around invested with trying to get it to work. I know it's probably just some simple thing I'm overlooking.
I've never done anything with Arduino stuff and Ed's instructions go really fast for someone trying to follow along and is totally new to the subject. In video 5 he is talking about downloading from a web site and then seems to go off on a tangent about using the files from Thingiverse. This is where I get confused.
When it's time to adjust the settings in the grbl controller and try to open the com port I get this:
View attachment 170243
I'm also not seeing the device in file explorer.
I'm pretty sure I have the correct com port selected.
Any ideas where I've gone off the rails?
Frustrated.
The Arduino system can be daunting, considering things are constantly changing and becoming more complicated. I can understand your frustration. It is one of those things that is so popular and used by so many people of every skill level that googling answers is hard due to some information being outdated, incorrect but works in some weird cases, or just wrong.When it's time to adjust the settings in the grbl controller and try to open the com port I get this:
View attachment 170243
I'm also not seeing the device in file explorer.
I'm pretty sure I have the correct com port selected.
Any ideas where I've gone off the rails?
Oh boy, you’re making me scared to start mine! It’s scheduled to arrive tomorrow though!
Ordered a kit, should be a fun project.
Haha welp I just downloaded the latest Arduino 1.8.12 (I was on 1.8.10) and you're right it now just says Arduino Uno there.You hit on a little issue. The grbl Controller doesn't exactly show Arduino Genuine Uno. Just Arduino Uno. No genuine. Does this matter?
No need for 12V when programming it. The Uno will take power from whichever power source is higher. If there is 12V plugged in, it will use that with its own internal regulator to bring it down to 5V. If only the USB is plugged in, then it will just run on the 5V USB power. 12V isn't needed until you need to run the steppers.Here's a question that will indicate my level of ignorance. When should the 12V power be plugged in? Does the Arduino bot get it's power from the usb cable?