Re: DRO card and future projects

>
> Speaking of that new project, I've been following the comments about
> the EMC software (gotta love the free stuff ;) with interest, and got
> to thinking about how I'd go about trying it out here at home. I was
> thinking that buying a motion control card is pretty pricey, and that
> my DRO card makes a great jumping-off point for bigger and better
> things. With a little extra work, and probably an extra 200 bucks, I
> could come up with a 3-axis servo controller card design. It's a
> little more involved, but using PWM for the output signal cleans it up
> nicely, bringing it into the 'definately doable' range, even for
> beginners.
>
> I think that this group could easily write plans to build the card,
> the servo amps, and the guidance you'd need to assemble the lot into
> a really good webpage. I can handle the card OK, but I need to know
> how the card interfaces with the EMC stuff, or if I could provide all
> the register-level programming info to somebody who could write a
> driver or whatever is needed to get things going. I don't yet have
> Linux here at home, so I can't really experiment much. If there's
> interest in this, I'll order Redhat next month.
>
> What do you say, guys? Sound like fun?
>
>Yes, it does sound very fun to me and I do want to keep in touch with all the people that will be working on this. I am very much in favor of your ideas there Tom, and thanks for the reply on Dan's card.

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