Jon McCoy

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March 2024

I've decided to make a concerted effort to update all of my web presences. It's difficult, as in spite of the minimal updates and apparent abandoned look to them all, there are actually countless draft articles - plus in my Notes.app, there's just...

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Mercury II Driver Issues

After many years of lusting after laser cutter, and lots of researching, I lucked out and picked up a GCC Laserpro Mercury II (M-40W). I spent the first few weeks going through the exciting fun of clunky driver issues. I’m Mac based, and being M1 based, can’t virtualise...

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OP-Z with Korg PadKontrol

I've been trying to get the Korg PadKontrol working with the OP-Z over USB for a week or two. Tested a few cables, and now tried a Kingston Nucleum USB hub. The manual is vague (and indeed a few folk on YouTube using them with the OP-Z and...

2020

I'm not quite sure when I last updated my site. The WayBackMachine is suggesting I launched the last incarnation sometime in early 2016, and there's been something like 12 updates. Epic. That site was supposed to be a landing page for the myriad range of social...

Internet of Things 2014 Forum

I got to spend yesterday at the IoT 2014 forum, in Cambridge, listening to some fantastic speakers and getting to meet lots of really interesting folk starting up, building businesses and engineering new technologies. Having made the epic move of developing a fresh business plan, and focusing solely on a...

3D Printing Server Parts

With some of the chassis we have in our datacentre, the majority of drive bays are designed for 3.5” HDD, so it’s a pain when we need to configure a lightweight server or appliance with an SSD. Whilst the chassis can be upgrade or modified to take 2....

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