On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 9:00:08 AM UTC-6, Erik Green wrote: > > I am retrofitting a DC motor powered electronic height gauge. BBB > control will allow the system to remain fully self contained. > > Here is what I see as requirements: > Able to read quadrature signal from 20 micron scale at sufficient speed to > be usable (tbd). > > Read a analog signal from the lvdt or strain gauge touch probe for gauge > force set point. I already have suitable lvdt's but suspect a strain gauge > may be easier to implement. > > Servo drive the DC motor that positions the probe carriage. > > Please point me in the right direction to get started using BBB. > Any thoughts on PID control with dual feedback (linear scale as well as > touch probe). >
I see there is now A BeagleBone Blue Servo version. Searches here have been no real help. Can we put Machinekit on this new BBBlue servo edition and control its onboard hardware? Thanks for the info. Erik -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
