On 07/27/2013 11:48 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: > 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... > > /Sven ... snip
I would tend to use the serial port and Modbus/RTU, (or Ethernet and Modbus, but I have not tried it yet) http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AVR (See bottom of page) http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ModbusToHal http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ModIO (PIC example) I don't know enough about Mesa boards to be of much help. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
