On Thursday 08 March 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>[snip] >> >>>If you rich and have three wheels, you can hook one to each axis >>>permanently. >> >>Yeah, rich we aren't. There is another product, whose link escapes me >>ATM, with similar definition, but it can be had for as little as $29 & >>ship, and has a USB output. No idea how to drag that in and hook it up >>to hal, but at that price it might be worth a look. Internally it is a >>quadrature system from the clues given. A solid looking milled alu >> knob of about 2" diameter, it seems like it would be suitable. I >> thought I had it bookmarked but cannot find it now. Me, goes off >> muttering about the old mans stupidity for not bookmarking it. I >> recall I found it with a google search though, and its available from >> several dealers who do business on the net at prices ranging up to >> $59.95 US. It didn't have the spinner, but that's fixable. After >> all, that is what we do isn't it? > >You're probably thinking of the Griffin PowerMate: ><http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/> >It used to be available in black as well, but it looks like it isn't any >more.
Yes, that's the one. Obligatory comment about old farts and short term memory can be inserted here :) >Although it's probably a quadrature encoder inside, I think it's only 32 >counts per rev (at 4x). I believe that X (Linux) gets events like a >keyboard, so it may work with the input driver, possibly after some >modifications. It has 5 basic operations: rotation CW or CCW, button >press (and release of course), and rotation CW/CCW while the button is >pressed. It's not RT in any case, so it could be used with halui or a >GUI, but not as a jogwheel as Andy was wanting. > Well, the usb would call it unreal time due to its lags, but I'd think it would be usable once one got used to the lag. It should be good for fine tuning a cut by that last .0002". >See you >- Steve > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVD >EV _______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The famous politician was trying to save both his faces. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
