Kirk Wallace wrote: > Okay, now I know. Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens > with this. > Don't hold your breath, I am still not too clear on whether this will work without massive modification of EMC2, and how it uses rtai. > I have been thinking, that it would be nice to move some of the encoder > intelligence out to the encoder itself. This could off-load some of the > computing from the PC, make it easier to have a real absolute encoder or > maybe simulate it, have velocity and acceleration available, maybe even > handle home, limit switches and local I/O. Ethernet could be pretty > handy for this, I would guess.
Ethernet-enabled microcontrollers are certainly coming down in cost, but I'm not sure putting one in each encoder is sensible (yet). Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
