I am working on a design for a small custom 2-axis machine with 2 joints. Joint 
0 is linear and oriented in the Y direction. Joint 1 is rotary and mounted on 
Y.  See attached drawing.

My question is, would I be best off creating a new kinematics module for this 
machine, or can I simply reuse an existing one? I’ve never done any kinematics 
math but this setup seems to require no more than a few trig functions. Any 
pointers on where to start with this?

For control hardware I plan to use a Raspberry Pi with software stepping and 
something like a Trinamic Stepstick 
https://www.trinamic.com/support/eval-kits/details/silentstepstick/ 
<https://www.trinamic.com/support/eval-kits/details/silentstepstick/>
As I said the machine is small; Motors are NEMA 17 or maybe NEMA 23.

Since this is a headless machine with no more than a few controls (on/off, 
start, stop, reset, Emergency stop, etc) What is the best way to load G-code 
and run it when a button is pressed? I presume that I don’t need to load a GUI. 
I don’t want to load more than necessary to achieve a fast boot time.

I will have VNC running for configuration and testing. But no dedicated screen. 


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