2013/7/28 Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> > > > <snip>.. > > After some testing, I decided I wanted to optionally use my MPG to > manually control the carousel, but I ran into some problems and that's > were the project has been for over a year now. > > Karl kept his changer alone and wrote a comp to get his to work with > LinuxCNC as-is. > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/qd_atc_hal_ov-1a.svg > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/qdtoolchange.comp > > Sweet Kirk! That's exactly what I was looking for! i only did a quick scan of the source code, it looks like he's moving the changer on step at the time until he comes to the right position. One idea I had was to let an Arduino board handle the mechanism (like Karl's ATC board) and then just tell it either how many steps to go or which tool position it should go to and let it handle that. Is it possible to make communication output sending textual commands with the Mesa boards? It's C after all, I could optionally send commands on the serial port...
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