Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-09 Thread Greg Bernard
rceforge.net Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends On Thursday 08 October 2015 16:04:42 Jim Craig wrote: > On 10/8/2015 2:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 08 October 2015 14:01:12 Valer

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 09 October 2015 11:12:13 Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2015-10-09 16:50 GMT+03:00 Jim Craig : > > Very nice! I like the Joinery. > > Oh yes, that chest looks really awesome, Gene! Corner joints are > beautiful! > > Viesturs > I do thumbhole gunstocks for myself too. But I don't advertise as th

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 09 October 2015 09:50:36 Jim Craig wrote: > On 10/9/2015 8:30 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 08 October 2015 16:04:42 Jim Craig wrote: > >> Gene, > >> > >> How about a pic of one of those blanket chests? > >> > >> Jim > > > > I did, but the server is holding it for the moderator

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-09 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2015-10-09 16:50 GMT+03:00 Jim Craig : > Very nice! I like the Joinery. Oh yes, that chest looks really awesome, Gene! Corner joints are beautiful! Viesturs -- ___ Emc-users ma

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-09 Thread Jim Craig
On 10/9/2015 8:30 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2015 16:04:42 Jim Craig wrote: > >> >> Gene, >> >> How about a pic of one of those blanket chests? >> >> Jim > I did, but the server is holding it for the moderator to clear as its not > quite 20k over the 360k size limit allowed.

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-08 Thread Jim Craig
On 10/8/2015 2:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2015 14:01:12 Valerio Bellizzomi wrote: > >> On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 03:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> I had one of those "colonoscopy" cameras you could buy on ebay for >>> about $22 USD on my toy mill, and

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 October 2015 14:01:12 Valerio Bellizzomi wrote: > On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 03:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I had one of those "colonoscopy" cameras you could buy on ebay for > > about $22 USD on my toy mill, and had it pretty well calibrated but > > hadn't p

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-08 Thread Valerio Bellizzomi
On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 03:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I had one of those "colonoscopy" cameras you could buy on ebay for about > $22 USD on my toy mill, and had it pretty well calibrated but hadn't put > it to any real use as yet when I knocked it loose with an errant hold

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 October 2015 10:25:25 Jerry Scharf wrote: > Gene, > > What's the depth of field with those? > > I bought one of the $20 amazon "endoscopes". I was really disappointed > in the depth of field. I have played with real endoscopes, and the > amazing thing about them is their depth of fi

Re: [Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-08 Thread Jerry Scharf
Gene, What's the depth of field with those? I bought one of the $20 amazon "endoscopes". I was really disappointed in the depth of field. I have played with real endoscopes, and the amazing thing about them is their depth of field is from .5" to infinity. This one had a focal distance of about 4

[Emc-users] Machine vision cameras for use with camview, align and friends

2015-10-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I had one of those "colonoscopy" cameras you could buy on ebay for about $22 USD on my toy mill, and had it pretty well calibrated but hadn't put it to any real use as yet when I knocked it loose with an errant hold down bolt on that furniture joint carving jig. I'd been meaning

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-20 Thread Charles Buckley
I saw a couple projects recently that might be of interest.. https://hackaday.io/project/1313-OpenMV and http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/fabscan On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:14 AM, craig wrote: > On 8/19/2014 8:28 PM, dave wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 13:46 -0400, Todd Zuercher wrote: > >> I've

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-20 Thread craig
On 8/19/2014 8:28 PM, dave wrote: > On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 13:46 -0400, Todd Zuercher wrote: >> I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? >> >> A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly >> on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread dave
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 13:46 -0400, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > > A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly > on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled in them. I > would like to aut

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread RogerN
>-Original Message- >From: Todd Zuercher >Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 12:46 PM >To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >Subject: [Emc-users] Machine Vision? > >I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > >A series of randomly sized

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 8/19/2014 8:35 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > The conveyor is slow. I thought of multiple jets (and this might still be > the best way) my only problem is that would be an awful lot of jets and the > solenoids to actuate them to cover the conveyor width. > > I think one or a small number of mobil

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 19 Aug 2014, at 01:14, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On 8/18/2014 11:46 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: >> I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? >> >> A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly >> on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small poc

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 18 Aug 2014, at 19:42, David Armstrong wrote: > a vacuum would be far better and safer , instead of blowing potential chips > into someones eyes etc > no matter how good you are at trying to keep small debris in check , > particles always get through . > I agree. I have seen several very nic

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Dave Cole
On 8/19/2014 10:38 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 19 August 2014 15:35, Todd Zuercher > wrote: >> The problem of multiple simultaneous pockets to be cleaned, I may be best >> addressed by telling the humans loading the conveyor to avoid it. > Why not give the humans a vacuum nozzl

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2014 15:35, Todd Zuercher wrote: > The problem of multiple simultaneous pockets to be cleaned, I may be best > addressed by telling the humans loading the conveyor to avoid it. Why not give the humans a vacuum nozzle? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Todd Zuercher
" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:16:02 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision? On 19 August 2014 15:02, Todd Zuercher wrote: > This is what we are trying now. And it isn't quite working. To get the > poc

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2014 15:02, Todd Zuercher wrote: > This is what we are trying now. And it isn't quite working. To get the > pockets clean pressures on the air curtain have to be so high that we have to > have roller hold downs on the pieces to keep them from flying off the ta

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Todd Zuercher
This sounds like the most promising idea. Yes there is vacuum for dust collection. - Original Message - From: "Gregg Eshelman" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:22:49 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision? On 8/18/2014

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Todd Zuercher
uot;Marius Liebenberg" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 2:45:10 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision? Why bother with detecting the pockets. Use a curtain of nozzles that will blow in various directions. Maybe repeated once or twice and then blow t

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-19 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2014-08-18 22:47 GMT+03:00 Marius Liebenberg : > > Will you be willing to share the script as it could be useful for a pick > > and place machine that I am looking at doing. > > I have 2 files - one is .cpp file (no idea, what it is), the o

[Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 18 August 2014 20:50, Dave Caroline wrote: > Tip them pocket down and vibrate them, get the dust to fall out (use a > roller conveyor) > > Dave > > Best advise !! But if you really want to use a camera, you'll have to contend with purging a pocket around the lens to keep it dust free. For vi

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Cole
I think the machine could be moved via a command to MDI or something similar. Here you go.. the python interface showing the MDI interface.. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/python-interface.html There are probably a number of ways to do this. I don't think you need to mess around with the

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 8/18/2014 12:05 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > > Vision systems can be very light sensitive, which is sometimes not > immediately obvious. Cast a shadow across the parts and the vision > system may get lost. Find someone who does a lot of vision and you > will find that they know a lot about lighting

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 8/18/2014 11:46 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > > A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly > on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled in them. I > would like to automate a method

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Sure I will look at them to see what we can make of it. On 2014-08-18 22:04, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2014-08-18 22:47 GMT+03:00 Marius Liebenberg : >> Will you be willing to share the script as it could be useful for a pick >> and place machine that I am looking at doing. > I have 2 files - one is

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-08-18 22:47 GMT+03:00 Marius Liebenberg : > Will you be willing to share the script as it could be useful for a pick > and place machine that I am looking at doing. I have 2 files - one is .cpp file (no idea, what it is), the other seems to be the script itself. AFAIK that guy was using Eclip

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Will you be willing to share the script as it could be useful for a pick and place machine that I am looking at doing. There are a number of people that has done just that what you are talking about for pick and place machines but they are mostly not open source sadly. On 2014-08-18 21:35, Vie

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-08-18 21:42 GMT+03:00 David Armstrong : > let me know what you need from opencv into linuxcnc etc Nothing specific, only a concept - I was thinking about automation of "put a workpiece in cnc lathe, take finished part out of cnc lathe and repeat" process. If there is a box with unaligned work

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Caroline
Tip them pocket down and vibrate them, get the dust to fall out (use a roller conveyor) Dave On 18/08/2014, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Why bother with detecting the pockets. Use a curtain of nozzles that > will blow in various directions. Maybe repeated once or twice and then > blow the lot clea

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Why bother with detecting the pockets. Use a curtain of nozzles that will blow in various directions. Maybe repeated once or twice and then blow the lot clean. A number of swirling nozzle will also work. On 2014-08-18 19:46, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread David Armstrong
a vacuum would be far better and safer , instead of blowing potential chips into someones eyes etc no matter how good you are at trying to keep small debris in check , particles always get through . viesturs let me know what you need from opencv into linuxcnc etc Dave On 18 August 2014 19:16, T

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread TJoseph Powderly
maybe vacuum is better ( dont blow chips into already cleaned pocket) maybe mechanical fingers could detect pockets simply imagine a row across conveyer of pivoting fingers drooping down to belt as wood passes it would raise lever finger to hi posn if it returned NOT to conveyer level , you got a p

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-08-18 20:59 GMT+03:00 Dave Caroline : > I imagine you can get co-ordinates from something like http://opencv.org/ > and then move the nozzle/s as required > Last year I had an intern that created a script, that used opencv to recognize a part and return its coordinates and orientation angle.

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Caroline
If you know the outer shapes you can then know where the pockets are, another way if they are likely to be low contrast/full of dust. Dave Caroline On 18/08/2014, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2014-08-18 20:56 GMT+03:00 andy pugh : >> On 18 August 2014 18:46, Todd Zuercher >> wro

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread John Thornton
We use cameras to check things on production lines, I'd assume from that experience you would need to traverse the conveyer and when a target is found blast some air. Is this just to save some air vs an air curtain? JT On 8/18/2014 12:46 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Cole
Vision systems can be very light sensitive, which is sometimes not immediately obvious. Cast a shadow across the parts and the vision system may get lost. Find someone who does a lot of vision and you will find that they know a lot about lighting and light sheilding. Vision works best in a

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-08-18 20:56 GMT+03:00 andy pugh : > On 18 August 2014 18:46, Todd Zuercher > wrote: > >> How hard would it be to detect the location of these pockets, position an >> air nozzle over the pocket and clean them with a short air blast as they are >> carried down the convey

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Caroline
I imagine you can get co-ordinates from something like http://opencv.org/ and then move the nozzle/s as required Dave Caroline On 18/08/2014, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > > A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uni

Re: [Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 August 2014 18:46, Todd Zuercher wrote: > How hard would it be to detect the location of these pockets, position an > air nozzle over the pocket and clean them with a short air blast as they are > carried down the conveyor. I think that would strongly depend on the

[Emc-users] Machine Vision?

2014-08-18 Thread Todd Zuercher
I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled in them. I would like to automate a method of blowing out the dust left from milling the pock