Re: DRO card and future projects

At 10:02 PM 5/21/99 -0700, you wrote:

>From: Tom Kulaga <tkulaga@...>


>
>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.

If there's

>interest in this, I'll order Redhat next month.
>
>What do you say, guys? Sound like fun?
>
>-Tom Kulaga
>

Tom,
I would be interested. The high price of the Servo-to-Go card is one thing
that killed my interest in the servos. If you can do it for $250-$300, it
would definitely kick it in gear for me.

Thanks,
Dan