Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: digitizer arm

Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:

> Dave, Ballendo,
>
> You mentioned a dial indicator. If one could connect a dial indicator
> hand to a shaft encoder... or how about the little glass opto-sensors
> used to sense head position in some (old?) hard disks I've seen?

Yes, I also was thinking that this could be done. I have a couple of
HP codewheels and the optical reading head. They are quite small.
I could easily imagine building one of these onto a dial indicator.

Jon