Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?

2008-03-29 Thread Jesse Gordon
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

Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?

2008-03-29 Thread andrewm
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 > con

Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?

2008-03-29 Thread Stuart Brorson
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 t

Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?

2008-03-29 Thread Jesse Gordon
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,

Re: gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?

2008-03-29 Thread Steve Meier
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 d

gEDA-user: 3D Falcon feedback mouse?

2008-03-29 Thread Bob Paddock
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://ww