Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] wish list, case histories

Don't Stop tell me more???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Coghill" <billc@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] wish list, case histories


> I am interested in your DRO idea. I am an electronics hardware/software
> guy, who lurks here as I have an interest in building a CNC rig for
drilling
> cases and PCBs. If you were to fit each axis with a rotary shaft
encloder,
> and use the home switches to reset the count to zero initially then you
> could probably get a pretty accurate location. Modular is no prob, just
add
> another encoder. Fit the PIC with an LCD and there is all your
information.
> Or have three/four seperate LED displays for a bigger brighter / easier to
> read display.
>
> Hmm. Interesting project.. Let me think about it. Anyone else interested
?
>
>
> Bill.
>
> on 4/4/00 7:47 AM, james owens at wotisname@... wrote:
>
> > snip
> >
> > I wish I had more of an idea of what to do with the electronics bits I
keep
> > ordering, if it wasn't for a few people on this list they would just go
> > obselete before I learnt enough to use them.
> >
> > Wish list proper :-
> >
> > A PIC based DRO with output that can be put into a computer program,
built on
> > a modular princple so that one PIC monitors each axis and I can have as
little
> > as one axis or as many as I deem necessary. Probably stackable off a
common
> > power supply. This would enable me to DRO every axis of my Bridgeport
type
> > miller and give direct positional information to a CNC program with the
three
> > or four axis that I am moving at the time.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Terry.
> >
>
>
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