[Emc-developers] New guy

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Kelly
Well, the signup mail said "Post a short bio" so... I've built a few small CNC machines over the years, some of these are documented on my hopelessly out of date site http://www.cncathome.com . I built the drives for some of those machines too. But that was in the days when commercial drives w

[Emc-developers] M67

2011-09-05 Thread andy pugh
Someone mentioned on the forum that M67 doesn't work (he wanted to use it for controlling laser power) This is undeniably true. Pavel found a set of IRC logs on the subject showing that many have tried, but none have succeeded in making it work. So, Pavel had a go (patch at the end). It seems to wo

Re: [Emc-developers] New guy

2011-09-05 Thread Jon Elson
Paul Kelly wrote: > > I have a requirement to automate the soldering of terminals and other > through hole components. At present, these get done by hand and its > fairly expensive. > > Initially, I was going to buy or build a gantry with an A axis and > maybe a pneumatic slide to feed an iron i