gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?
Maybe this would make a cool 3D mouse for gEDA/PCB/BRL-CAD? http://qdot.livejournal.com/236133.html http://www.nonpolynomial.com/libnifalcon/ http://home.novint.com/ I don't recommend that site if blinking things bother you. -- http://www.wearablesmartsensors.com/ http://www.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.designer-iii.com/ http://www.unusualresearch.com/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?
Looks like it might be good for use as the robotic arm of a pick and place machine. Steve M Bob Paddock wrote: Maybe this would make a cool 3D mouse for gEDA/PCB/BRL-CAD? http://qdot.livejournal.com/236133.html http://www.nonpolynomial.com/libnifalcon/ http://home.novint.com/ I don't recommend that site if blinking things bother you. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?
Steve Meier wrote: Looks like it might be good for use as the robotic arm of a pick and place machine. That's exactly what I was thinking! I recently outfitted an old XY pen plotter to work with a little vacuum pump as a pick and place machine for 0603 parts. It did work pretty well, but it's only got like 3/8 inch clearance. But it did save me from having to place about 2200 0603 resistors and caps by hand, on about 20 boards. (I'd be glad to share my code, but honestly it's sort of kludged together, mostly perl. It reads the Daumst and Zevantech pick and place files, and produced HPGL commands as well as toggled the bits on the printer port to control the automotive 12v vacuum solenoids(2) which controlled the suction and the lift functions. The source components were cut-tape and just double-stick taped down to the plotter surface, with the cellophane peeled off, so it could just pick them up as it needed them. A usb camera serves as an enlightenment aid.) I'm still looking for a good quality but small USB camera (low-res black and white or high-res color prefered) that works with Linux, that is not ov511 based, if anyone knows of such a thing. (The ov511 works great, but has a bug which causes the auto light gain control to get stuck with the brightness turned all the way up.) Also, does PCB produce any sort of pick and place files? Thanks, -Jesse ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?
Jesse -- (I'd be glad to share my code, but honestly it's sort of kludged together, mostly perl. It reads the Daumst and Zevantech pick and place files I hack gerbv on occasion. Gerbv has the ability to read Gerbers (natch), drill, and various pick-and-place files. I'd be interested to get a couple of your pick-place files just to read into gerbv to see if they are properly parsed and processed. That is, if your files aren't proprietary. Shoot me an e-mail off list if that's OK with you: sdb (AT) cloud9 (DOT) net. Also, does PCB produce any sort of pick and place files? Yes it does. Stuart ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?
Jesse Gordon wrote: I'm still looking for a good quality but small USB camera (low-res black and white or high-res color prefered) that works with Linux, that is not ov511 based, if anyone knows of such a thing. (The ov511 works great, but has a bug which causes the auto light gain control to get stuck with the brightness turned all the way up.) A good old BT848 and a CCIR black and white camera would be very linux freindly and then you have much choice in camera. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?
True, and I actually do have a good old bt848 card that I got years ago! But anyway, I use a laptop for controlling this thing, and I guess I always assumed that a pcmcia bt848 card would be sort of spendy, and besides, having the camera ADC right on the same board or chip as the CCD/CMOS image sensor, then being able to grab frames directly over the USB is so nice. And besides, if I use an NTSC composite camera and a capture card, then I'll be dealing with interlaced video, which means that the odd field is 1/60th of a second before or after the even field, which means if there is any motion, I'll get interlace artifacts, which aren't good for machine vision. So I really like the idea of a usb camera solution. THanks, though! -Jesse andrewm wrote: Jesse Gordon wrote: I'm still looking for a good quality but small USB camera (low-res black and white or high-res color prefered) that works with Linux, that is not ov511 based, if anyone knows of such a thing. (The ov511 works great, but has a bug which causes the auto light gain control to get stuck with the brightness turned all the way up.) A good old BT848 and a CCIR black and white camera would be very linux freindly and then you have much choice in camera. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
