Well, the signup mail said "Post a short bio" so...
I've built a few small CNC machines over the years, some of these are
documented on my hopelessly out of date site http://www.cncathome.com .
I built the drives for some of those machines too. But that was in the days
when commercial drives were expensive and I was cheap!
My background is Comp Sci/IT and I now run an electronics manufacturing
business. I do a lot of PC and embedded programming.
I have a requirement to automate the soldering of terminals and other
through hole components. At present, these get done by hand and its fairly
expensive.
Initially, I was going to buy or build a gantry with an A axis and maybe a
pneumatic slide to feed an iron in at an angle. But yesterday I impulse
purchased a small 6DOF robot arm sans controller (google "PUMA 260")
The PWM amps are easy, but I want PC-in-the-loop control so I can manually
teach positions. With a total of 7 axii, that pretty much means EMC so here
I am...
Anyone done anything like this before?
Paul Kelly
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