Hello everyone, (First, I wonder how many British users of EMC saw the posts titled "home-mad cnc" and thought....mad?...THAT'S for sure! :-)
Anyway, here's what I'm wondering: if I wanted to get crazy and control, say, six (or more) steppers with EMC, what's the best way to go about that? I'm obviously not going to do it with a single parport. Right now I have X,Y,Z and A going (and I'm thrilled to death with that, believe me!) and that pretty much takes care of it. (To be specific, I'm thinking about using a couple of extra steppers and solenoids and such to make an automated tool changer.) Offhand I'm not even sure of how many axes EMC2 is willing to drive. That would be nice to know... My first thought was a second parallel port card. I know that over the years I have used (and, I think, fried) a couple of those guys...but I'm pretty sure that with the shaky status of a _single_ "old school" parport this is not a direction in which I want to be going. Then I thought of one of those generic multi-I/O deals with huge numbers of ins and outs, but that's probably (?) done by multiplexing fewer pins, which I guess might be a problem for software that's trying to twiddle bits in realtime for a particular effect. Any suggestions? Thanks! Pat .................... Patrick Ferrick Town of Webb School Main Street Old Forge, NY 13420 (315) 369-3222 (315) 369-6216 .................... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
