Just watched the video Chris. It's awesome. Good job.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 2:38 PM Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote: > I shot an iPhone video of the first test with all three axes assembled. > Again, this CNC build is purposely the simplest and lowest cost build I > could do. I'm still using two 3D printed timing belts and all printed > parts. and the z-axis is held together with clamps. But as you can see it > can now "cut" the "LinuxCNC" splash screen. > > It will eventually have home and limit switches, Mesa card, and glass > linear encoders but I want to characterize and document a low-budget build > first. > > This is working out about as I wanted. The budget is still holding about > $350. It seems to perform well enough to be useful. My computer has > 37,000 ns of jitter so I've limited step rate to 8 kHz on all axes. Even > so, I get a very reliable 30 mm/second movement on both X and Y. I should > be able to be better because I have the drivers set to limit current to 2.0 > amps with 4.2 amp motors. I think I can improve the 35,000 number. > > I'm working on setting up a gamepad ( target.com/p/logitech-f310-gamepad > <https://www.target.com/p/logitech-f310-gamepad/-/A-13670128> ) as a > pendant. It is looking like I will be able to do jogs, toutch-offs, and > some manual milling operations with this $20 "pendant". > > https://youtu.be/wupYP2NNsXI > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
