Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-10 Thread Florian Rist
Hi Viesturs > Paused at 0:57 and I see 7 ropes. Right, I didn't notice this. Maybe the plan was to have 8 but one of the drives died. :-) > And at 3:17 I certainly do no understand, > what kind of g-code is that, it seems to use G01 and G02, but the axis > words seem strange. Indeed, looks st

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/12/9 Florian Rist > One more thing regarding ropes: This is the pro version (6 ropes): > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa8uDFzbsw Paused at 0:57 and I see 7 ropes. And at 3:17 I certainly do no understand, what kind of g-code is that, it seems to use G01 and G02, but the axis words s

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread Florian Rist
One more thing regarding ropes: This is the pro version (6 ropes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa8uDFzbsw Developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart: http://www.ipa.fraunhofer.de/Parallele_Seilroboter.597.0.html See you Flo --

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread Florian Rist
Hi > What is that machine doing? It's laying out a thin thread spooled from a large 1 m spool sitting next to the white base. The motor to do so sits in the head, supported by the three ropes. This head also carries a Raspberry Pi board, a WLAN bridge, a servo driver and USB camera. The camer

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 12/09/2013 12:02 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 9 December 2013 17:22, Spiderdab <77...@tiscali.it> wrote: > >> This is what I did with a four cable configuration and LCNC: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22XJMw-28DU > > Can it lift 80kg? That looks like fun. > the NIST robocrane and Spider can (fr

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 12/09/2013 12:03 PM, Florian Rist wrote: > Hi > >> I think it's only a matter of zeroing.. > > In deed, getting the kinematics right is the tricky part. > > Here's short presentation of the three rope system that I and two > colleges built recently - it's an art installation, a drawing machine.

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread Florian Rist
Hi > I think it's only a matter of zeroing.. In deed, getting the kinematics right is the tricky part. Here's short presentation of the three rope system that I and two colleges built recently - it's an art installation, a drawing machine. http://vimeo.com/72398393 See you Flo ---

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 December 2013 17:22, Spiderdab <77...@tiscali.it> wrote: > This is what I did with a four cable configuration and LCNC: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22XJMw-28DU Can it lift 80kg? That looks like fun. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---

Re: [Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-09 Thread Spiderdab
:) nice! I think it's only a matter of zeroing.. This is what I did with a four cable configuration and LCNC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22XJMw-28DU Davide. On dom, 2013-12-08 at 16:15 -0700, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > Here's just the thing for adding CNC to things like old pattern torches. >

[Emc-users] Four cable CNC with LCNC. Someone finally did it.

2013-12-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Here's just the thing for adding CNC to things like old pattern torches. http://hackaday.com/2013/12/08/four-cable-drawing-machine-pulls-our-strings What it needs now is optimized for X/Y and don't bother with Z, just keep all four cables tight. -