Re: Looking for plans to make...or buy a six axis breakout board

The maxinum number of axes you'll easily control from one parallel
port is 5.

It may be easier to just add a 2nd and perhaps a 3rd parallel port
and then use the readily available 3-axis breakout boards.

Rab

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "procisionengineering"
<procisionengineering@y...> wrote:

> I am looking for breakout board plans or simply to buy an
> inexpensive one for six axes and maybe 4 or 5 digital i/o's the

more

> the merrier...but I realize there is only so much you can do with a
> parallel port!
>
> I will be hooking this up to my pc and using mach2 (hopefully)to
> control a rotary draw mandral tube bending machine that I made.
>
> This is the first CNC project I ever attempted, but I have tons of
> experience in mech design/CAD/CAM/CNC Programming and general
> metalforming and welding...and my dad is an electronics guru so he
> can take care of the electronic stuff.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated...thanks!
> Todd W.