Re: Re: Digitizers, Renishaw (for bill phillips)

Bill P wrote:

>As far as this discussion is concerned though (ie the need for a
>simple, cheap easy to make probe) I would suggest you forget the
>weird and wonderful sensors and concentrate on the simple switches.

Makes good sense.

<snip> significant electronic input to sort the noise, temp drift,

>ageing, etc. from the required trigger signal.

Keep it simple!


Bill,

Since you're here :-)
What are your thoughts re: "the piezio being used to 'wiggle the
probe', watch for freq. shift on contact" technique that roland
appears to use? I can see ways to easily overcome the issues noted
above. What am I missing?

Thank you in advance.

Ballendo