Thanks everyone for the feedback. I'm hesitant to do a USB interface with an MPG wheel so I think I will stick to an LPT port interface for this machine and give that a go. That should be simple and reliable.
I ordered one of the CNC4PC "like" units off of Ebay. $92 including shipping. Dave On 6/2/2013 6:34 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 2 June 2013 22:51, Florian Rist<fr...@fs.tum.de> wrote: > > >> http://www.ebay.de/itm/170979265195 >> But I guess the USB dongles is >> a HID device, so it should not be too difficult. >> > Someone on the forum has one largely working with hal_input, but there > is as-yet no way to use the LCD. > > I asked one of the manufacturers if they wanted to lend me one to > write a HAL driver, but they weren't interested. > > The JogIt! is plug-and-play because it works entirely by keypress > emulation. This also means that you might not always be able to rely > on the key-up signal arriving when you expect. > > My preference would be for an all-realtime pendant. The Mesa 7i73 is > the ideal thing for the interfacing, but is just a bare PCB so isn't > what the OP was after. It shouldn't be particularly difficult to put > one in one of these though: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261182593565 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
