On 14 February 2010 21:20, Florian Rist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> is it possible to connect an external input device to control the feed
> override factor during runtime?

Reading http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config_emc2hal.html indicates
that motion.adaptive-feed might do the trick.

> If so, what kind of signal could be evaluated? Would it be possible to uses 
> the quadruple encoder of a hand
> pulsar as an input device?

It needs a float input, and the HAL encoder block has a float output,
so you should be able to connect the two together simply enough. You
probably want to limit the output of the encoder before passing it to
the feed speed though.

-- 
atp

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