Andy, I live about 1.5 hours from Madison. I had to look up what a Faro arm is. It looks interesting and may be a better way to probe an object than with a touch probe in the milling machine. Why do think this is "quite a project"? It seems straightforward to me. I built my own touch probe a few years ago to copy a gun stock for a friend. Then milled some copies out of walnut. I am interested in finding what you want for it.
John Figie On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:07 AM Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > 2018-08-17 12:41 GMT+03:00 andy pugh: > > > My plan was to reverse-engineer the encoder data and then use trivkins > > for the kinematics. It was always going to be quite a project, so > > don't expect to be ever be actually _using_ the arm. > > > > I think that old Faro arms have incremental encoders. > Each joint has to find its index before it can be used. > https://youtu.be/de_Yqf-zOJI > > I was lucky to purchase a complete Gold arm off ebay for cheap a couple of > years back. It's pretty nice, but the latest Faro arms with laser scanners > are absolutely amazing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
