Thread: "Hacking" and "Modding"
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01-03-2014 #1
Is the term Engineering avoided because it's not involved, not known or not understood?
And no, I don't like illuminated fans, transparent side panels or furry dice!
;-)
- Nick
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01-03-2014 #2
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01-03-2014 #3
Seeing this post -
http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/millin...html#post55711
I investigated and discovered that Hackaday is a site which promotes "Hacking" for some it's synonymous with "Engineering" - including CNC as in this case.
Perhaps we're all Hackers?
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01-03-2014 #4
Or not ;-)
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01-03-2014 #5
My vote is that while some of these "hackers" or "makers" are very good engineers, a lot of them are "hackers".
My favorite quote about these people:
The Maker Movement - Re-inventing the wheel - the hard way.Gerry
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I hacked and modded a CAMM-3 mill. It was quite beautiful but IMHO let down by it's crappy motor, crappy collets and crappy firmware.
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I changed all 3 and I would call the new firmware a hack and the new parts a mod
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Then I added flood coolant which I would call bling
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01-03-2014 #7
And I thought it was Dave that got magicniner going with this thread
http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/new-me...html#post55575Spelling mistakes are not intentional, I only seem to see them some time after I've posted
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02-03-2014 #8
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06-01-2015 #9
For that to work you have to know what "right" is.
If you are doing something new there is a lot of stuff going on where "right" is still to be determined.
I do a lot of development on manufacturing equipment that works on a smaller scale than the machines you can buy.
Sure, I can buy a lot of the parts off the shelf somewhere but that costs money and even worse, time.
That is why I hack towards a working system as quickly as I can with usually parts from just the workshop or local diy store.
All too often I found that doing it right the first time meant that I had to do it again anyway, because the underlying assumption did not work.
For me, hacking my way to a working result and then doing it again to improve what does not work is always quicker than doing everything right the first time....
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06-01-2015 #10
Engineers use an old technique often referred to as "Design Development".
Hacking sounds like blindly making your way in a jungle with a machete because your sat nav is broken and can no longer tell you the way, in this metaphor engineering is being properly equipped in the first place, climbing a hill and planning a route with a map & compass ;-)
- Nick
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