Thanks guys definitely gave me sone ideas. I thought of the ir sensors but the target for it may be a bit difficult for it to determine. And while capturing measurement s every inch is the idea the accuracy needs to be in the 1/16" range. From the mechanical side of things the idea is to have the bo...

I am trying to work out a project to measure weight and distance at the same time. Load sensors are cheap and easy to find. An appropriate distance sensor is proving difficult fo me to locate. My thought is to have one attached to a string that measures distances from 0-one meter. In reality out to ...

I personally looked at this for a while and was confounded by the same issue you are facing. I finally just decided to dedicate an old full box pc to the garage and use it to control my cnc. I have seen people use the pi to control steppers, but it was so much easier for me just to use the pc plus I...

Okay crashed is not quite the word curropted some files is more like it...I did go in and resize my partitions it is a 16 GB card I gave the two roughly 8GB each. Spares going tothe other two partitions on the card for boot and something else that looked important...so i didn't mess with that. I am ...

Think I know the problem just want confirmation. I installed or tried to install libre office from the pi store...it failed pi was acting a bit odd so I logged out of x waited a few minutes and sudo reboot. Noticed a warning in the boot sequence about insufficent filesize on root. My thought is libr...

I put the eggplant in the aluminum container.

I'm from Texas so egg is pronounced with a long a sound at the beginning. You still keep the e sound too....yeah we don't talk correct at all.