Hi, I'm in the process of building my first CNC using the 'jgro' design on cnczone. While I'll use it for normal CNC router stuff, I also intend to use it as the base for a robotic art painting machine. This is what led me to emc2, so that I can modify it as needed for my application.
I've got a couple questions to help me move forward. First, I need to select a drive/motor system. I had been looking at the HobbyCNC kit, but noticed in the archives and on the wiki that it looks like some people have had issues with it. Is this still the case? Otherwise, I'm thinking about the Xylotex kit. From what I can tell that seems to work well for others. Should I be looking at any other setup? I'd like to keep costs down, but can spend more if it makes a difference. Second, down the road I'll need a system for picking up different brushes. I'm figuring I can write some code to generate g-code that makes all the movements I need, such as moving to where a brush gets dropped off, where another gets picked up, where it needs to get paint, etc. But I don't yet have any sense of the mechanism for grabbing the brush. I want something simple and inexpensive. Any suggestions? Also, when I get a drive/motor kit, should I get a 4-axis kit and use the 4th axis and 4th stepper for controlling the grabbing mechanism? Or would that be done some other way? Thanks! fg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
