[Emc-users] UI options for small screen

2022-01-21 Thread Thaddeus Waldner
Hi, I’m working on a small cnc machine with a 124x600 display. I anticipate most of the use to be selecting a new file and adjusting work offsets. I’d be happy with the gmoccapy UI but it simply doesn’t fit on the screen. My plan for now is to edit it and remove some of the manual control

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread Chris Albertson
Arduino? Too slow to coune pulses if they happen every 0.0001 inch unless the table moves slow. Look at the new Raspberry Pi "Pico". First off it only costs $4.Next if you looks, it can be programmed in Python and here I the Key: In addition to the two CPU cores it has 8 "PIO" processors

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
day 2... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6Xuvo6zWs On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 9:12 AM Sam Sokolik wrote: > Remember - the excitation signal is 250hz I want to measure wave > form to wave form within that at a minimum of 1000 counts. Not much power > needed.. > > sam > > On Fri, Jan 21,

Re: [Emc-users] rotary table re-engineeering

2022-01-21 Thread fxkl47BF--- via Emc-users
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 15:15, fxkl47BF--- via Emc-users > wrote: > >> I recently acquired a Palmgren 800 rotary table for a faction of this cost. >> I would like to modify it to mount horizontally or vertically on a small >> mill. >> I'm open to

Re: [Emc-users] rotary table re-engineeering

2022-01-21 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 15:15, fxkl47BF--- via Emc-users wrote: > I recently acquired a Palmgren 800 rotary table for a faction of this cost. > I would like to modify it to mount horizontally or vertically on a small mill. > I'm open to suggestion before I start hacking. I think that I would

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
Remember - the excitation signal is 250hz I want to measure wave form to wave form within that at a minimum of 1000 counts. Not much power needed.. sam On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 9:09 AM Les Newell wrote: > The only issue on an Uno would be interrupt latency. If you disable all > other

[Emc-users] rotary table re-engineeering

2022-01-21 Thread fxkl47BF--- via Emc-users
https://lostcreekmachine.com/product/lathe-attachment-rotary-indexing-8-model-800-w-vertical-feed-palmgren/ I recently acquired a Palmgren 800 rotary table for a faction of this cost. I would like to modify it to mount horizontally or vertically on a small mill. I'm open to suggestion before I

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread Les Newell
The only issue on an Uno would be interrupt latency. If you disable all other interrupts, latency should be easily low enough. The only real advantage of going to ARM is interrupt priority. You could assign the sampling interrupt to maximum priority without having to disable other interrupts.

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread Ralph Stirling
I would suggest starting with a more capable microcontroller. I like the $15 Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 modules, which are programmable with the Arduino IDE, but have a 120MHz clock, 32 bit timers, floating point hardware, and two 1Mhz 12bit adc's. Their processor is an ATSAMD51 (Cortex M4). The

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
My plan is to use the 16 bit timer on the arduino to trigger on the input square wave rising edge and then count until it see's the return wave form rising edge. (the return waveform will get converted to a square wave) Atleast that is the plan... SO - I guess it comes down to how accurate the

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 08:54, andy pugh wrote: > You might be able to do a lot better than that if you can find a way > to have the Arduino set timers on interrupts. > (How fast does the Arduino run a polling loop?) I haven't watched the video yet (I am in a meeting :-) but I am not clear on

Re: [Emc-users] 60's vintage position feedback.. (GE Accupins)

2022-01-21 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 04:50, Sam Sokolik wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUdjX3zerY > > The plan is to use the arduino to count the phase difference between the > input and output. The original control used a 250khz clock frequency to > count You might be able to do a lot better