Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to build a DRO?

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:09:49 -0000, you wrote:

>I was hoping to build a digital readout for my milling machine. The
>Idea was to use a rotaty enoder with a stainless steel wire and an
>rotary spring to convert linear motion into rotary motion for the
>encoder, the pulses of which would be counted by a pic chip and
>displays the measurement on a 2 x 16 line LCD.
>
>Has anyone seen a project like this. Hope you can help.

There's a commercial DRO that does just that - see

http://www.bwelectronics.co.uk/systems/361-362.html

I've heard mixed reports on the accuracy.


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