RE: Joystick and EMC.

I would add my vote to say encoder feedback would be a far more useful
feature than a joystick. I think that developing a manual pendent would
provide far more utility than a joystick and it does not require any
additional hardware in the computer or changes to the software.

I have started a web page on the pendent project as conceived by Mo. It has
a circuit diagram, brief explanation, and picture of the project to date.
You can check it out on my web site http://www.ktmarketing.com go to the
Home Machining page and select the link titled "Info and pictures of the
manual pendent I am building". It is the last one in the top group.

BTW, the same idea will work with any brand of PC based controller software.
The only change is to what keys control what function.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Falck [mailto:dfalck@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:59 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Joystick and EMC.
>
>
> From: Dan Falck <dfalck@...>
>
> Dancam had joystick control and I tried it for a short short time- it can
> be dangerous. Joysticks just aren't precise enough and if the stick
> springs back to the center- where are you going to end up? Please don't
> spend time on them, they are just a novelty to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
> >From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
> >
> >i think that adding a joystick would be a good novelty with EMC
> but having
> >had a joy stick control with one of my other systems I found it
> not all that
> >useful. My vote would be to add the stepper feedback before adding the
> >joystick because the feedback would really provide value for the time
> >expended to program it.
> >Dan