Reference Image Function in TouchDRO Plus

One of the new functions in TouchDRO Plus is the Reference Image overlay in the Graphical View display. In essence, it allows you to set an arbitrary image as the background for a workspace and calibrate it to the machine coordinates. As a result, as you move the spindle/cursor, the features in the image will translate 1:1 to the physical part. There are a few different uses for this functionality. In this post, I will go over the three ways I've used the Image Overlay [so far], and then explain how to set it up on your tablet.

TouchDRO Plus Available for Beta Testing

A few hours ago I published the first build of TouchDRO Plus to the Google Play Store's Beta track. I've been working on it almost full time since March, and most of the core functionality has been in decent state for at least a month. A few of my friends and I have been using it in our shops for a bit over a month, and it seems to be stable enough to inflict on a few more people.

What's Next for TouchDRO

A couple of months ago, after several years of work, I released the new version of TouchDRO - TouchDRO V3. It took much more time than I expected, but overall I'm really happy with the result. The application is much easier to use, has a lot of new functionality, and overall is a big step up from the 7-years old V2.5. Now that the proverbial dust has settled, I'd like to chat about what is next for the project, at least for the foreseeable future.

TouchDRO V3 Finally Out

My first full-time software developer job was at a company called Sunstone Circuits. I was hired to work on various home-grown scripts and programs they used to process orders and manage inventory. At some point I decided that it would be prudent to write a service to import orders from the website into the internal database, so people wouldn't need to print sales orders from the ecommerce system and hand-type them into the scheduling program. When pitching the idea to the higher ups, I told them that I will have "a working proof of concept in less than two weeks". Long story short, it took almost a year and a half, and for at least 3 more years they called me "two weeks Yuriy"...