We ran an article in July that may be of some interest to the welders
(weldors?) here -- training welders with a virtual welding setup. It's
mostly of interest to commercial fabricators but it could be the
future of welding training for a lot of us.

Anyway, judge for yourself:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14

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Ed Huntress
Editor
FAB Shop Magaizine

On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:40:31 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:
We ran an article in July that may be of some interest to the welders

(weldors?) here -- training welders with a virtual welding setup. It's

mostly of interest to commercial fabricators but it could be the

future of welding training for a lot of us.



Anyway, judge for yourself:



http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14



--

Ed Huntress

Editor

FAB Shop Magaizine

Many (25 or so) years ago, I designed an O/A simulator for the College of Aeronautics at LaGuardia airport. We had am analog lightpen built into a torch with pots or the O & A valves, a touchscreen and a programmable videodisk player. All very cool stuff for its day. We built five prototypes, fully functional, and as far as I know, they did use them in the classroom.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:14:53 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck
wrote:

On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:40:31 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:
We ran an article in July that may be of some interest to the welders

(weldors?) here -- training welders with a virtual welding setup. It's

mostly of interest to commercial fabricators but it could be the

future of welding training for a lot of us.



Anyway, judge for yourself:



http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14



--

Ed Huntress

Editor

FAB Shop Magaizine

Many (25 or so) years ago, I designed an O/A simulator for the College of Aeronautics at LaGuardia airport. We had am analog lightpen built into a torch with pots or the O & A valves, a touchscreen and a programmable videodisk player. All very cool stuff for its day. We built five prototypes, fully functional, and as far as I know, they did use them in the classroom.

'Sounds cool. You should see the system Lincoln Eletric has now. Wow.

One slick thing about it is that it tells the student what he did
wrong.

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Ed Huntress

One slick thing about it is that it tells the student what he did
wrong.

I'm lucky, I've got a wife that does that

Karl

On Monday, August 25, 2014 6:37:32 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:14:53 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck

wrote:



On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:40:31 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:

We ran an article in July that may be of some interest to the welders



(weldors?) here -- training welders with a virtual welding setup. It's



mostly of interest to commercial fabricators but it could be the



future of welding training for a lot of us.







Anyway, judge for yourself:







http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14







--



Ed Huntress



Editor



FAB Shop Magaizine



Many (25 or so) years ago, I designed an O/A simulator for the College of Aeronautics at LaGuardia airport. We had am analog lightpen built into a torch with pots or the O & A valves, a touchscreen and a programmable videodisk player. All very cool stuff for its day. We built five prototypes, fully functional, and as far as I know, they did use them in the classroom.



'Sounds cool. You should see the system Lincoln Eletric has now. Wow.



One slick thing about it is that it tells the student what he did

wrong.



--

Ed Huntress

Our machine did too. I swear, some day I'm going to meet the voice-over actor face-to-face, he's gonna say, "you need to adjust the acetylene needle valve, not the oxygen needle valve" and I'm going to deck him.

Ed Huntress wrote in
:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14

I played with one at the Eastec show about a year & a half ago. I've never
done any welding except O/A about 50 years ago, and it was very
interesting. I did OK for my first weld, but clearly need a bit more
practice. It provides real-time feedback on what you are doing wrong, and
I was improving as I went.

Definitely a great gadget for a vocational school.

Doug White

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:16:13 GMT, Doug White
wrote:

Ed Huntress wrote in
:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14

I played with one at the Eastec show about a year & a half ago. I've never
done any welding except O/A about 50 years ago, and it was very
interesting. I did OK for my first weld, but clearly need a bit more
practice. It provides real-time feedback on what you are doing wrong, and
I was improving as I went.

That's what I like about the whole idea. Quick feedback has to get you
up to speed a lot faster.


Definitely a great gadget for a vocational school.

Doug White

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:16:13 GMT, Doug White
wrote:

Ed Huntress wrote in
:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fabs.../july2014/#/14

I played with one at the Eastec show about a year & a half ago. I've never
done any welding except O/A about 50 years ago, and it was very
interesting. I did OK for my first weld, but clearly need a bit more
practice. It provides real-time feedback on what you are doing wrong, and
I was improving as I went.

Definitely a great gadget for a vocational school.

Doug White

As a side note..I find the Guide Dog ad in a welding magazine to be
disconcerting and unfortunately all to predictive


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