Re: Black Box again

Hi Ron,

Which simplestep board are you talking about? This site?

http://www.simplestep.com/simplestep2000/motion_control.html

Alan KM6VV


ron ginger wrote:

>
> I have just ordered a SimpleStep board. I expect to write a driver for
> my new CPNC program for it (as well as for the board Steve is doing) I
> had a long talk with a guy at SimpleStep (very helpfull) They are now
> looking at offering their logic board separate from the drivers- that
> would make it another candidate for the smart black box- damn, we go
> from none to a bunch all at once! He guessed it would sell for about
> $150.
>
> Their board is serial port, and only has one commnad of buffer. He
> described a lot of real world applications using it and claims the speed
> is fine.
>
> He mentioned one medical company with a bunch (100?) Sherline lathes
> fitted out as CNC glass blowing lathes to make some medical device.
>
> They do not do circular interp on the board. They also dont really do
> linear- you have to set the speed values for each axis to cause them to
> all get to the end of the move at the same time. The worst error will be
> a couple CPU clock cycles- in the 1 microsecond range.
>
> I have printed the API draft for the UMCI and will take it with me on a
> weeks vacation- wont be reading e-mail for a week, but will do some
> programming.
>
> ron ginger