Finally had some time this weekend to hook up a stepper drive, stepper motor, power supply, and a PC to see if EMC2 would move a motor. I’m pleased to report success! I just wired up a single axis for now, but it demonstrates that EMC2 is properly generating step and direction pulses out of an add-in PCI parallel port card.
Here’s quick little video showing it running the default program to cut out the EMC2 logo.
Final positions for the DIN rails and wire management have been nailed down. It’s much more tight than one should really wire a panel like this, but…
It seems to be a rule that no matter what size electronics enclosure you have, you will always have at least 10% more stuff that you need…
While I still haven’t gotten into the detail of squaring and tramming, I’ve been intensely curious to see if the new Z axis would be happier with…
Since 2009, I’ve been messing around with CNC machines. I started out with a small manual milling machine from Grizzly, and converted it to CNC using a…
Hauled the column back down to the shop and mounted it back on the machine. Sure is a lot heavier than it used to be! Muscling things…
Had some productive time in the shop during the holiday. First step was to make the counterbores for the M6 cap screws a bit deeper. Easy to…
so what does the purple lizard do, then?
Nice . . . looks like it’s starting to come together, well, in baby steps anyways.
Oh, and nice music. Kind of went well with the motor sounds in the background 🙂
Yup, it’s slowly coming together. With any luck the mechanical stuff will be here this week…
The purple lizard… Well, if you don’t know, I sure can’t tell you.