On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:32 -0500, joshua wojnas wrote: > what configuration options would best match EMC2 & Contraptor using > lead screws for a robtotic arm? I am interested in it from the cover > issue of natiional geographic with amanda kitts.
EMC2 is geared towards controlling machine motion relative to g-code programs. Direct human-machine interaction is much more interactive. For your interests, some of EMC2's motion control subsystems might be useful, but EMC2 as a whole, might not be. Using EMC2 to study how to connect machine systems to a PC may be a good start, but most likely, you will move on to something else later. What might help, is to download the EMC2 CD, get a PCI parallel port, a buffer card (break-out-board), LED's, resistors, and some broken printers. Printers have motors and sensors you can use to study how to get motion and use feedback to help control the motion. The drawback here though is, the motion commands will come from a g-code file or from a g-code command line, the sensor feedback will monitor how well the command is being completed, rather than senor data being used to derive motion commands. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
