<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://dawnintegrations.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://dawnintegrations.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-09-21T14:23:32-04:00</updated><id>https://dawnintegrations.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Dawn Integrations</title><subtitle>Build logs and technical notes from Russell Borton, mechanical project engineer in Anderson, SC. CNC, automation, home-lab servers, and embedded hardware.</subtitle><author><name>Russell Borton</name></author><entry><title type="html">Starting the log</title><link href="https://dawnintegrations.com/2026/09/starting-the-log/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Starting the log" /><published>2026-09-21T09:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-21T09:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://dawnintegrations.com/2026/09/starting-the-log</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://dawnintegrations.com/2026/09/starting-the-log/"><![CDATA[<p>I’ve spent a long time building things — parts, machines, cabinets, plant lines, and lately a growing pile of servers and embedded gadgets — and almost never written any of it down. This is me fixing that.</p>

<p>Dawn Integrations is going to be a build log. A running list of what I’m working on and, more usefully, how it actually went — the wiring that didn’t match the diagram, the config that took three tries, the fix that finally stuck.</p>

<p>What’s likely to show up first:</p>

<ul>
  <li><strong>LinuxCNC on the 4-axis gantry router</strong> — config, the ATC, probing, tool offsets.</li>
  <li><strong>The shop time-clock system</strong> — Flask and SQLite on the back end, an ESP32 RFID kiosk on the front.</li>
  <li><strong>Home-lab servers and NAS</strong> — the storage and compute this all runs on.</li>
  <li>Whatever else I’m elbow-deep in that week.</li>
</ul>

<p>First real post is coming. For now, the <a href="/about/">bio</a> has the background.</p>]]></content><author><name>Russell Borton</name></author><category term="meta" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why this site exists, and what's going to show up here.]]></summary></entry></feed>