Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Digitizing arms??

List,

Why not use a digitizing tablet? That's what we used in a medical
application (long time ago). It was a sonic digitizer, using long,
linear microphones along the X and Y axis, and a pen that sparked.

The arrival of the sound pulse after the spark was generated timed, and
gave the distance to the X and Y axis.

Modern digitizing pads use something like arrays of sense wires, and
pens or pads that generate an electromagnetic field.

Alan KM6VV


Jon Elson wrote:

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> doug98105 wrote:
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>>Group,
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>>Looking for some ideas on making a two axis digitizing arm.
>>
>>Back in the days of Apple II computers I saw a couple of crude
>>digitizing arms built using potentiometers and inputting through the
>>game controller input. Position was determined by the resistance
>>readings.
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>>With high resolution encoder devices it seems like a much more
>>accurate digitizer could be made.
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>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>
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> Yeah, look at Faro for how they did it. The problem with these things
> is that certain arm positions lead to poor accuracy, because a very small
> movement of one joint makes a big change in position.
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> No doubt a 1000 cycle/rev, or even 2500 cycle/rev encoder would be
> a HUGE improvement over the ancient Apple digitizer with pots.
> Unless they used special pots, you couldn't possibly get better than
> 1% angular accuracy, and that is 3.6 degrees! Yikes!
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> I worked for a medical computer company in the WAY distant past,
> and they made "Rho - Theta" and "Phi-Theta" digitizing arms using
> very expensive mil-spec rotary and linear pots, and had all sorts of
> trouble getting enough resolution with a 12-bit ADC to digitize
> the location of a patient's tumors, etc. Linearity was no problem, as
> the software had cal tables built for the individual digitizing arm.
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> Jon
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