I know several people have started on it, but am wondering if anyone has successfully been able to integrate EMC to control a similar arm. How difficult is it to do? I'm looking at buying a PUMA arm would like to use it to carve up foam and maybe wood, will probably end up wanting to add a rail or a turntable. To do some larger works.
Can EMC run as a proper 6 axis controller - ie tilt the milling head to get under ledges? Can one assume it will be clever enough to not whack part of the robot arm through part of the machined block, or does it only know where the cutting head is? I know I dont ask much, but I would also like to incorperate an analog industrial laser distance meter to the end of the arm enable me to scan 3d object - maybe when it's sitting on a rotary table - is anyone able to shed any light on doing this also? This is my first intro to EMC so am excited to learn about it's functionality. Also if anyone can point me towards the best/cheapest (I know I might be contradicting myself there) controller to control the old +/- 10V analog servo drives would love to hear how much and where to get from. Will want possibly 7 Axis (to include rotary table) plus an AD convertor somewhere in there to read laser measurements and of course a couple inputs for stops etc. Many thanks to anyone who's able to help me get started with this. Brendon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
