Wow... If I had one of those I would probably need to keep it on the coffee table in the living room...
It looks almost too nice! :-) Dave On 7/7/2013 10:29 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am getting close to being able to put together one of the "delta" > style 3D printers, and I will need to put more thought into homing. > > The current state-of-the-art for this in the Arduino world is shown in > the following videos: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eNz1l56H5E > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuql1iJMAQ > > The process is as follows: > > * Each joint is homed to a switch at the top of the travel range (you > can barely see the belts moving for this at the beginning of the > video) which provides approximate homing > > * Then carriage is lowered and moved towards one of the joint arms in > a motion that releases a captured bed probe (an allen wrench with a > switch and some springs) > > * The bed height is probed using the allen wrench sensor and > automatically leveled via firmware > > * The carriage moves off the bed so it can push the allen wrench into > the retracted position > > * The machine is homed and ready to use > > Question: > How do I begin to hook in a homing procedure like this to LinuxCNC? > > - -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlHZe2MACgkQLywbqEHdNFxZXwCeIetMkeViW2js61W9Jpp/A0se > jxoAnj01o4xBtHIlM7hTT/idNGUf7lLa > =rh/x > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
