Hi > What is that machine doing?
It's laying out a thin thread spooled from a large 10000 m spool sitting next to the white base. The motor to do so sits in the head, supported by the three ropes. This head also carries a Raspberry Pi board, a WLAN bridge, a servo driver and USB camera. The camera monitors what the thread is doing, especially how dark a particular area already is. The data is sent via WLAN to a other computer and feed into an algorithm calculating the next movement. The motion command is then sent to LinuxCNC via linuxcncrsh. The machine moves very slowly and creates the drawing over the course of a week. cu Flo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
