On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: > 2012/11/9 Sven Wesley <[email protected]> > >> 2012/11/9 Bruce Layne <[email protected]> >> >>> >>> On 11/09/2012 02:59 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: >>> >>>> Looks like a good idea. The eBay versions seems more rugged though. >>> >>> I had the opposite impression. I thought the Jog It looked a bit home >>> made, but very rugged. In one of the videos, when the Jog It is placed >>> onto a table, it made a substantial WHACK that sounded like a solid >>> block. Another video shows one being run over by a car and presumably >>> surviving. It's reported to be coolant resistant, but it looks like it >>> wouldn't take much effort to make it coolant proof. >>> >>> I ordered a pair of them, even though I don't have a Tormach so I think >>> the pendant would look better in black instead of white. Partly, I just >>> wanted to support anyone who is marketing a plug-N-play device for >>> LinuxCNC. That it's an open source plug-N-play device for LinuxCNC is a >>> bonus. >>> >>> BTW - The Q&A on the KickStarter features the guy who is selling the Jog >>> It saying that part of the reason he developed it was because he found >>> the lower cost Chinese MPG pendants to be too fragile and, well, >>> basically cheap. Let go of the spring return jog wheel and the machine >>> motion continues. That sort of thing. >>> >>> >> I'm absolutely on your side when it comes to supporting such a device. >> And hey, it's open source. I can make it wireless. ;) >> >> > Hmm.., I digged a bit deeper in the text and vid's. It's a shame the button > text is moulded with the buttons. To me homing should be made once at > startup. It seems he's using homing when it should be a touch off. I'll ask > him about it.
Did he reply? I went ahead and ordered one too. I asked for the 3D models of the buttons so I can print them out with the text a different color than the button, along with color coding the buttons. If anyone wants some buttons printed, just let me know and I can do it for the cost of shipping them to you. The firmware is configurable, so being able to print new buttons we should be able to customize it away. How would you have the buttons instead? I haven't used homing and touch off yet, I usually just manually home like he did in the video, but I would love to do it the right way. Cheers, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated <http://3DTOPO.com> Phone: 208.462.4171 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
