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Comment on DIY Camera Controller – Part 1 by Louise

Louise — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:24 +0000

I have not done anything with this project for .. over two years at least.

However, Bambi has modified the code significantly for water drops and collisions, may be worth popping over to his site and having a look..

http://bambi.ws/

Comment on DIY Camera Controller – Part 1 by Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:34:11 +0000

Hi Louise, I have scoured the internet and your tutorial for building a water drop machine is the best and most detailed I have come across.

So I am going to have a go at it, but before I start I just wanted to check with you that there were no updates that I needed to be aware of.

Comment on DIY Camera Controller – The Program – Part 6 by Rick N

Rick N — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:59:12 +0000

Hi
Iam new to all this emailing (as a siver suffer) but love Photgraphy and came agross your site Lovvvvvvvvvve IT, Iam starting to Collecting all the parts and if it ago to plan it will be great . But reading the comments I should be ok and the instruction are very will written.

I have also been looking for the one on the veroboard with Arduino pro mini so you can put it all in a project case, but no luck in finding the website or have I missed it.

if someone gets this ! Can anyone let me know

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Marisol

Marisol — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:42:37 +0000

Thanks a lot Louise!!! I have contacted Dawn and she has answered. You 2 are great!!

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Louise

Louise — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:26:48 +0000

You will be able to use any of the Cougar machines to cut Shrink plastic.

As for drawing, that would depend on the design. You can use permanent marker pens in the cougar cutter to draw your design, however you would need to manually change pen colour if you needed more than one colour, providing the plastic is not removed from the machine this would be quite a simple matter of swapping pens and selecting the next colour to draw.

I would strongly encourage you to contact Dawn at http://www.thymegraphics.co.uk/contact.asp and ask her to grant you guest membership to the blackcat forum where there are hundreds of very helpful crafters who will answer any questions you may have regarding the cutters, software and how to draw and cut shrink plastic

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Marisol

Marisol — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:51:02 +0000

Hello and many thanks for your kindness and for the help you provide to all of us looking for info in these confusing matter. I’m writing you from México and I have cero experience with die cutting machines. Still, I need a machine that can cut and draw shrink plastic. Precisely what I need is to be able to make some pre-cut, pre-draw pieces of this material to make charms for necklaces and bracelets. So my machine will have to allow me to use my own designs, use files available in the web, cut shrink plastic, use ink that will be permanent on this material, out-line and draw, make many cuts and do it fast, and so on. (Sure hope I have explained myself). Could you please give me some advice as to what machine you consider proper for the job? My best regards, Marisol

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Louise

Louise — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:51:41 +0000

The Blackcat machines are incredible

As I say to everyone though, ask Dawn for guest membership of the forum before you purchase. Ask the members as many questions as you can think of, everyone will be happy to help. These machines are quite expensive so it is best to be absolutely sure it is what you need before investing.

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:31:39 +0000

Hi
like all of the above , and was thinking about a craft robo. I have a cricut imagine

But I saw the cougar on create and craft and was intrigued. Im so glad I found your blog
with so much informatiion im sold I think its got to be the cougar. and im glad I did not waste
my money because these are all substantial buys at one time or another. I have made templates
by cutting out card but need a machine to do the work. thanks
and I will add you to my crafting buddies

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Louise

Louise — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:10:20 +0000

You will not regret joining the blackcat family

Comment on Digital Craft Cutting by Helen

Helen — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:30:45 +0000

I just saw the Cougar machine on creatandcraft and it nudged me to look at available machines as I’ve been toying with getting, (or saving for) one and had only seen the cartridge based machines before, which don’t appeal to me as I think it mean you are forever having to buy more and more cartridges and I cannot afford to do that.

I count myself lucky to have found your site from my first ‘google’ as you have put so much helpful information on here. I must admit that the price of the cougar is rather daunting – I am partially disabled due to having M.E. for more years than I want to think about – so my finances are very restricted but I may ask for money for Christmas and birthday etc.

I am going to email Dawn and ask for a guest membership to the blackcat forum before I make any decision but I do feel drawn towards the Cougar and it’s lack of limitations. I use graphic packages to create elements of may of my cards, as I can’t afford to buy all the necessary dies and other items I would need to enable me to make the things I want. I mainly make cards but would like to be able to make boxes and other, more ambitious items.

I have a large family, including 10 grandchildren and numerous great nieces and nephews – all the children, nieces and nephews are adults now but I like to make things for them too and I try to make individual cards for all my family and friends. Christmas is a real challenge too as I made all my cards for that last year, for the first time – they weren’t ALL individual designs but a lot of them were. My illness is often the biggest limitation but I think I would find it all much easier with a cutter – You can see I am talking myself into this.

I’ve been far too long-winded already, so will cease and desist now, except to say a big THANK YOU, for all the information.