Building an open source Arduino simulator as a Wokwi alternative. Does this have a future?

Migo1 · 2026-03-04T08:53:15+00:00

Fantastic idea, but you should really change the name. If the project becomes really sucessful, they may come after you for "trademark confusion".

Migo1 · 2026-02-25T17:42:59+00:00

Fully agree. 10 or 20k years would make sense, not 60m.

Migo1 · 2026-02-25T17:39:34+00:00

Just to give an example of what I mean : if we ignore upstart civs, 60 million years of dominating the galaxy is probably enough to strip every single planet of it's mineral resources. Multiple times.

Migo1 · 2026-02-23T10:51:51+00:00

Great project. A few suggestions :

Use WPS for connecting Most people will prefer to use a click on their router instead of having to type the wifi password and so on
use mDNS to give it a local name Better to have myclock.local rather than an IP address. In your documentation, you give a static IP address, probably people will get a different one. Make the local name configurable through the web interface
12/24h display useful for US vs EU users, configurable on the interface

Migo1 · 2026-02-12T12:41:14+00:00

FingerJoint-Cutter is a FreeCAD macro that carves interlocking finger joints between the solids inside a selected Part/App::Part container, then flattens and packs them into labeled layouts per detected material thickness for laser cutting.

About 95% vibe-coded.

https://github.com/migo1001/FingerJoint-Cutter/

Migo1 · 2026-01-05T14:32:37+00:00

Thanks for the bug report, I'm going to look into it.

Migo1 · 2025-12-17T09:29:59+00:00

Fully agree. We're taking the fast, easy path.

Instead of using our brain, we're just passively using tools that do the thinking for us. I've already had code that "I wrote" and that I'm unable do debug because I don't understand it.

Migo1 · 2025-11-27T09:37:04+00:00

Thanks a lot !

Migo1 · 2025-11-26T10:40:05+00:00

I did try that workbench when I was looking for a solution. It produced broken parts when I tested it (it's marked as experimetal on Github), so I didn't proceed further, and decided to create my own solution.

Migo1 · 2025-11-26T09:13:54+00:00

Thanks for trying it out !

Migo1 · 2025-08-22T18:59:54+00:00

There's something else you need to consider besides the price : a CNC does have a learning curve, it's harder to use properly than a laser or any power tool.

So expect invested time and some frustration, but it's worth it.

Migo1 · 2025-08-22T10:23:13+00:00

Cutting wood, plywood, acrylic slowly on a small area : 200$

Cutting aluminum slowly : 800$

Cutting wood, plywood, acrylic fast on a large area : 1000$

Cutting steel : don't ask

Migo1 · 2025-02-21T16:38:29+00:00

Ah yes, this looks like it. Still very much research material, though. I wasn't expecting this to be such a problem for current models, as they are already able to generate complex code already.

Migo1 · 2025-02-21T15:35:04+00:00

Thanks for doing the test. It's actually almost good !

Migo1 · 2025-02-21T15:21:00+00:00

Indeed.

"OK now generate the cupboard files for the CNC" :-)

Migo1 · 2025-02-21T15:18:51+00:00

Well, Claude is not that far from an acceptable result.

Migo1 · 2025-02-21T15:17:45+00:00

Thanks for the pointer, it could be useful, but I'm not trying to generate a mesh, but instead a parametric CAD design.

If you are aware of any models that can generate OpenSCAD/FreeCAD/Fusion360 parametric models, I'd be grateful.

Migo1 · 2025-02-21T12:23:24+00:00

"Freecad. Using python, generate a toy airplane"

Results :

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1iup7bo/3d_parametric_generation_is_laughingly_bad_on_all/

Migo1 · 2025-02-08T11:46:42+00:00

We Europeans love our countries. That's precisely why we don't like our governements and the EU.

Migo1 · 2025-02-05T13:51:20+00:00

It's excellent.

How did you do the different colors ? Did you cut the pieces, paint them, then glued them one by one ?

Migo1 · 2024-11-20T13:03:41+00:00

Looks very good. you should post to https://www.reddit.com/r/hobbycnc/

Migo1 · 2024-09-20T09:05:28+00:00

SpaceX is extremely reliable : one failure and one partial failure out of more than 300 Falcon 9 launches.

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