I don't know how related this might be but I have been playing with robot controllers and X10 stuff for a while and also with Telescope software. Anyway, One thing I have found for any serial devices is that the key serial to usb issue is using the Kensington "High Speed" serial adapter. I tried all kinds of other adapters for serial to USB but that is the only one that works right. I also use Virtual PC and it recognizes the high speed serial adapter for my GPS etc....
The other adapters would work sometimes and others not and this lesson was hard come by for me. FWIW
I know if you are using an old mac that you are looking for ADB but I don't know where or what to look for for that. I did splice and rewire a few serial adapters and I think I remember splicing a 25 foot ADB once that 'they' said shouldn't work for my web cam, but it did.
I am going to research this as well. I want to do some metal etching and clay/cement/stone etching with at least an XY controller.
Thanks
Tom
On Jul 8, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Mark MacKenzie wrote:
I can't speak for Mark Weider but I "wish" to use some of my older Macs for this task. I remember looking into this a number of years ago and something about a stand alone adapter being required for Macs which I think would run from the ADB connnection. I will look into this in any case and if you like let you know. It may be best to put up a bit of web site for this rather than add to the list traffic but in any case email me from time to time for information if you wish.
On other fronts of this project I am acquiring a CNC X,Y table and X axis column set up. I will marry this to a bench top drill and custom designed toggle clamp holding table. Adding a controller board and then writing the software and debugging it are pretty much the rest of the project. So you can see that it might take a while.
I am actually aiming to use a Mac Plus I picked up a few weeks ago just to see if I can and what Rev is capable of doing when pushed or stretched on "marginal" platforms and operating systems. I think it would be kind of cute to see an old Mac all in one running this rig.
I have several other older computers as most must have and they are both Mac and Windows and if I have to Linux.
Mark MacKenzie
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Hello guys,
Is this possible on the Mac? I would love to 'find' a cnc and work on some ideas I have. Can you guys let me know what you are up to with this.
Thanks
Tom
On Jul 8, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Mark MacKenzie wrote:
Great!! I suspected as much. I expect I will have the same problems. However, I need to make this work and will put a fair bit of effort into it. As a "jackleg" tool and die machinist in an other life I might manage to triumph over the vagaries of inanimate objects such as CNC drills taking on a life of their own. Or maybe this will be the beginning of a bad science fiction novel gone real!
Can't wait to see your work. Thank you in advance.
Mark MacKenzie
Mark Wieder wrote:
Mark-
I started on a CNC controller some time last year. I'll dig out what
I've got and send it to you. The hard part isn't figuring out the CNC
protocol (the "G" commands and such) but getting the controller part
right so you don't snap off drill bits or have things flying across
the room.
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