Re: [Emc-developers] New guy

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Kelly
EMC2 is much better at converting cartesian coordinates to joint positions than it is at doing "teach in" Yeah, I anticipate needing to write an app that plugs into EMC at some level to do the teaching. Slowly coming up to speed on the EMC2 architecture, promise to RTFM (got two weeks on the ro

Re: [Emc-developers] New guy

2011-09-06 Thread andy pugh
On 6 September 2011 01:10, Paul Kelly wrote: > Well, the signup mail said “Post a short bio” so... Hi, and welcome. > The PWM amps are easy, but I want PC-in-the-loop control so I can manually > teach positions. With a total of 7 axii, that pretty much means EMC so here > I am... EMC2 is much b

Re: [Emc-developers] New guy

2011-09-05 Thread Jon Elson
Paul Kelly wrote: > > I have a requirement to automate the soldering of terminals and other > through hole components. At present, these get done by hand and its > fairly expensive. > > Initially, I was going to buy or build a gantry with an A axis and > maybe a pneumatic slide to feed an iron i

[Emc-developers] New guy

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Kelly
Well, the signup mail said "Post a short bio" so... I've built a few small CNC machines over the years, some of these are documented on my hopelessly out of date site http://www.cncathome.com . I built the drives for some of those machines too. But that was in the days when commercial drives w