Re: Black Box - USB version info - call it the UMCI

Thanks for the kind words Ron. The API (applications programming
interface) specification is finally in draft form. Plan to post it
Wednesday night after reading through it one more time from a cold
start.

In an attempt to keep our sanity about which "black/smart" box we
are working on, we have named ours the UMCI, or USB Motion Control
Interface.

While the people who are already committed to working with the UMCI
will have strongest influence, everyone will be welcome to critique
and make suggestions.

Regards,
Steve Stallings

>Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:21:18 -0400
> From: ron ginger <ronginger@...>
>Subject: Re: Black Box -
>
>At the NAMES show Steve Stallings arrived with a nice demo unit

running

>on a proto of his 'smart box'. We talked a lot about it, and that

caused

>me to get hot again on my Conversational program. I have made some

great

>progress, improving my interface a lot, making it easier to use. I

have

>greatly strengthened the 'learn mode' functions where the machine is
>used as a measuring machine to help define the part. This should be

real

>usefull in the home shop or repair shop kind of work, where we dont

even

>have a paper sketch, to say nothing of CAD.
>
>Steve posted a note here a month or so ago that he was working on

this,

>and would be opening a discussion here 'real soon now' to help define
>the command set. I know that at least a few guys are trading mail

over

>this, and have plans to build something around it when its ready.
>
>So, the smart box is moving along, but since we are approaching

summer

>vacations I suspect it may not be as fast as we might like.
>
>ron ginger
>
>