Late reply... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnwzv0GNTc8
2009/7/15 Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> > Brendon Tait wrote: > > 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. > > > It has been done, but I can't tell you who has a running SCARA robot > under EMC, but I'll bet there is somebody who has one. > > 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? > > > No, that is the job of the CAM program or programmer. The CNC control > moves the machine's axes as commanded by the G-code program. > This gets a bit more complicated with SCARA-style machines as there are > several configurations for getting the end effector to the same > position, and some of them may interfere with other structures. I don't > know how you instruct the CAM and/or CNC to deal with that. > > 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? > > > If the laser can provide a simulated quadrature encoder, this might be > fairly easy. If it provides some parallel, USB or other data format, > then the first problem is just interfacing it to the computer, then you > can worry about interfacing it to EMC. > > Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
