Re: Hexapod question

I was messing around with EMC the other night and found that it only let
me tilt the platform in one direction, and wouldn't tilt it back. Now
it's giving me an error, saying that I must be in "teleop mode" to move
the platform, whatever that is.

EMC seems to be functional, but it sure is a pain to use.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Ray Henry <rehenry@u...> wrote:
> Hi Jon, Simon
>
> As of a while ago, the EMC motion planner can tilt the hexapod's
platform.
> Till Franitza in Stuttgart has been doing this with his desktop models.
> You can see both stepper and servo version photos and a movie at
>
> http://www.isw.uni-stuttgart.de/personen/t_franit/modell/index.html
>
> There is some pretty novel work on platform geometry with Model 2 where
> three of the the struts interact with the three other struts rather than
> with the platform itself. This allows for a much larger angle of tilt
> before the system approaches a singularity.
>
> If your German conprehension is as poor as mine, there is a Queen's
> English version that can be reached by clicking on the Brit flag.
>
> Ray