Brothers and Sisters, We are a group of final year students in Cairo university, Egypt. Studying electrical power and machines, our graduation project will be the electrical control system of a 3-axis CNC mill. I have chosen EMC for computer machine control, over Mach3 and others, mainly because of the open source/GNU part, which is one of the aspects i have been working on in Egypt. Since we are getting financial support from a local factory to build this for them, it has to work.. and work with a reasonable accuracy.
So.. blah blah.. how i am what i do.. the point is: were to begin? We have a fair idea what programming should be, studied that but we have never did it for real. We don't have an actual machine in our hands yet, but we have stepper motors and some drive schemes. 1. What is the best way to communicate with the computer, and EMC? the parallel port seems (from reading the HAL manual) to be easy enough? 2. What else do we need to know or start reading about to do it? 3. Does EMC have a method of generating pulses and recieving inputs, in a customized way? (as we are essentially building a driver and control circuit, how can we send/receive from it?) 4. Is there anyone on this list in Egypt, or know of someone in the country? This is just the first month of this project, we have not progressed that long.. any suggestions or advice will be greatly appreciated. We seem have a lack of that here, thank you all. Peace, Ahmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
