"Hacking" and "Modding"

[magicniner]

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

[JAZZCNC]

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

Not sure the point of this post.! Maybe your on the wrong forum.? . . . This is a forum for CNC and term engineered or engineering is used in just about every build and aspect of the build.

Give us a clue to what your on about.

[magicniner]

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?

[magicniner]

Or not ;-)

[Ger21]

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.

[Robin Hewitt]

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.
-br
I changed all 3 and I would call the new firmware a hack and the new parts a mod
-br
Then I added flood coolant which I would call bling

[EddyCurrent]

And I thought it was Dave that got magicniner going with this thread

http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/new-me...html#post55575

[JAZZCNC]

My favorite quote about these people:

The Maker Movement - Re-inventing the wheel - the hard way.

Life's too short to go around in circles re-inventing or Re-making anything, I prefer to do it right first time or not to bother.

[Sven]

Life's too short to go around in circles re-inventing or Re-making anything, I prefer to do it right first time or not to bother.

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....

[magicniner]

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