Re: [Emc-users] new control panel
Nicely done, Seb! Mark On 08/27/2010 04:09 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Hi folks, I want to show off the new control panel i made for my mill! http://highlab.com/~seb/emc2/bp/2010.08-control-panel/ It's got: * e-stop * continuous jog buttons for all 3 axes * spindle speed control (emc2 drives a stepper that turns the varispeed control) * spindle on/off (and it uses the spindle speed knob to select clockwise or counter-clockwise) * incremental jog (using jog wheel) in all three axes, with an increment of 0.0001, 0.001, or 0.010 All the buttons and knobs go back to emc2 via a Mesa 7i37 and 5i20. The HAL code that glues it all together is here, look at control-panel.hal: http://git.highlab.com/?p=emc2-config-bp-r2e3.git;a=tree I made a small pyVCP to debug all the hardware connections, it's also in the git repo above. The panel is made from some scrap 0.040 thick steel shelving i dumpstered. The labels are engraved just deep enough to take off the black paint and expose the shiny metal underneath. All the wiring terminates in a connector in the control box on the front of the machine, so i can remove the panel pretty easily to work on it, without removing all the knobs and stuff. It's got a couple of bugs... Some of the labels are obscured by the buttons knobs they're supposed to describe. Some of the mounting holes are in the wrong place, hence the C-clamp helping hold it to the face of the machine... This was a fun project because it was a bunch of firsts for me: first time engraving text (yay ttt!), using multiple coordinate systems, using polar coordinates, and first time with pyVCP. And it makes the machine so much more convenient to use! And there's room for a touchy touch panel next to it... :-) -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] new control panel
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:09:12 -0600 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: Hi folks, I want to show off the new control panel i made for my mill! Nice looking! I notice that you are using the jog knob from the old Bridgeport E control panel. Are you also using the old panel mount encoder? The one that looks like a 1/2 Watt chassis mount pot? If so, have you found any data on that encoder? I have a couple, but I've never figured them out or been able to find their manufacturer. Encoding minds want know! Thanks, Matt -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] new control panel
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:26:01PM -0400, Matt Shaver wrote: Nice looking! I notice that you are using the jog knob from the old Bridgeport E control panel. Are you also using the old panel mount encoder? The one that looks like a 1/2 Watt chassis mount pot? If so, have you found any data on that encoder? I have a couple, but I've never figured them out or been able to find their manufacturer. Encoding minds want know! Hi Matt, I wired that up for Seb one evening at his place while he was playing with some very short humans who seemed to require a lot of attention. I don't really understand what was going on there, so I worked on the mill. The encoder is just unpowered mechanical switches giving quadrature. I had to add pull-up resistors (well I think I pulled up - I know I added resistors) to get it to work. If I remember right, the encoder gives 50 cycles per rev instead of the more usual 100. It is not the greatest jog wheel ever. I don't recall which of the three pins is the common... I bet one could wire it correctly in three or fewer tries though. Chris -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
