Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Next step for hobby CNC

Joe;
some 4 years ago the Silicon Chip magazine run an article on a program called rboprject or
some thing like that, the software used to run a 5 stepper robot that used to have the boards
that were featured on the same magazine (if I remember correctly January 94) the software
was shareware ,I still got the disk somewhere, and it was written in Qbasic ,also I believe
that the source code was included, if you are interested I could try to email it to you
regards
mariano


jvicars@... wrote:

> What I would like to build is a home shop welding robot. The one
> thing missing is the ability to run a program by "teaching".
>
> All the MIG robots I have seen work this way. You switch the machine
> to "Teach Mode" and manually move the welding head around the work in
> whatever path you need. While you are doing this the computer records
> the motion and translates into G-code. You have simple record, pause,
> rewind, etc.
>
> I pictured building this with steppers with encoder feedback. The
> "recording" program and the control dont' even have to be related.
> There's no reason CNCpro (or other hobby controller) couldn't run a 3
> or 4 axis robot arm. The problem right now is on the software side.
> The Gecko G201's already have the free spooling feature built in which
> would make it very easy to switch back and fourth from teach to run
> modes.
>
> Does anyone know of any software (free or cheap) that will perform
> this "recording" function as I have described? Are there some details
> that I am missing?
>
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