Good evening friends, Hope you're all well and safe...
This message aims to get opinions and ideas as I'm thinking about building a learning and dev rig for documentation. It should gather most of the main hardware configs usually found on users machines: * Open loop, closed loop stepper and servo linear axis, with and without scales, with all kinds of limit/home switches. * Same for rotary? * Liquid circuit with pump, valves, level, flow, and pressure sensors (for lubrication and coolant). * Same for air and vacuum. * Pneumatic actuators. .... Started thinking about this yesterday and, at the moment, the plan is: * Ideally to use an sff server and a raspberry pi to have both computer platforms covered * use Mesa boards. Plan is to use a 7i80HD or 7i93 at the heart, and daughter cards for function groups. This is for a clean design aswell as being able to upgrade/switch features when needed. I'd gladly give the 7C81 a shot too 😋 * build some kind of rack to hold everything in the most compact way possible. Bonus point if I can make it transportable as I'm beginning to think it could also become a nice demo and teaching rig... Maybe put IT in the base, electronics on the back, hardware on the front and KVM... Well, somewhere else 😅 may be a foldable arm? * Then start adding the systems one after the other to learn and improve and augment documentation and support contents (tutorials, videos,...) along the way. Of course the build of the rig itself would be documented! Would you please share what you think about the idea, if it good and worth the time and money, for the different purposes? How would you do somerhing like this? What features/functions would you build in? Thanks in advance for your answers TY Jérémie _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
