John, > I'm sure it would not be a turnkey install.... but clever > enough people could certainly get it working. Things like > homing will be the "fun" > parts. Basic hexapod kinematics are in there, and were used > back in the NIST days. They'd need some porting effort to > interface with the newer motion controller, but the tough > math parts should be fine.
Do you have any idea of what and how involved porting of kinematics will be? And ported from where, EMC1 or the original NIST code? Do you know if anyone has actually tried to do a hexapod with EMC2? I am just trying to get a feel for what I may be getting myself into here. :) > I'm not entirely sure about the current driver, but I think > it will handle multiple cards. The new driver that I'm > (slowly) working on will definitely handle more than one > card. It will also allow for a wider variety of "stuff". > I'm sure a 6 axis servo configuration could be done with a > single board and two 7i33 breakouts. Depends on your time > frame though, I got sidetracked into a bunch of emc2.1 stuff, > and am only now getting back to the 5i20. (I have some docs > to write up tonight, then I hope to resume 5i20 work this evening.) Yea, I am really interested in that too, and if it is ready would probably be the way to go, because otherwise I think I there is sufficient I/O on a single m5i20. If I can give you a hand either with testing the driver, or if there is some part you would like to split off, please let me know. I currently have a system configured with an m5i20 available. I also have the Xilinx software loaded on another machine, although I have not gotten very far in playing with it. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
