<snip> Ahmed, In addition to the directions of Chris, Kim, Jeff, and Kirk, if you are looking at additional open source tools for this project - particularly driver boards, there are several open source board projects underway at CNCzone.org in the electronics forum. The projects include servo and stepper (uni and bi polar) drives with at least one project utilizing avoiding chips not readily found in certain regions of the world. You may find additional tools and or directions to take your research project. As others mentioned, get a computer set up with the live install, run down all of the latency issues for the computer, then start experimenting with the simulators included.
You might also consider dumpster diving for old printers or copiers and recover several small motors (steppers and or servos) and set up a mock mill. This will enable you to actually do a dry integration of a mill without worrying about destroying anything important. In the electronics forum at CNCZONE.org, there is a thread that talks about how and where you can scavenge old steppers and servo motors. Hope that helps. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
