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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Pendant LPT2

« on: October 26, 2012, 11:59:53 AM »

Excellent work Pasquale, my congratulations.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: SkyFall.

« on: October 26, 2012, 10:49:37 AM »

Hi Brett,

It's approx. 35mm diameter and a nice snug fit on the front of my webcam. 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / SkyFall.

« on: October 26, 2012, 05:53:54 AM »

Hi Guys,

I make no claims for originality but as ‘SkyFall’ was released this week it just had to be done. ‘M’ would not be amused. 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My first CNC project

« on: October 25, 2012, 01:43:07 AM »

Excellent work Todd, I look forward to seeing more.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor problem

« on: October 24, 2012, 07:11:46 AM »

Hi Saiz,

I understand what you are asking but you would need 'servo controllers' to drive your motors and 'encoders' to provide the feedback position of their shafts in order to control their movements and this would cost a lot of cash. 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Motor Encolsure

« on: October 23, 2012, 05:11:39 AM »

Nice work Sam.
It's about time you made something. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: pc crashes if all 3 axis rapid move simultaneously

« on: October 23, 2012, 03:52:33 AM »

Hi Dave,

My advice would be to try a different PC (Mach3 places a lot of strain on the Windows OS in creating the output pulse train and if the PC cannot cope it will crash). An alternative would be to use an external motion controller such as the Smooth Stepper.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 and Sheetcam under linux?

« on: October 23, 2012, 03:45:19 AM »

Mach3 is a Windows-based machine control system.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 Gear DC motor control.

« on: October 23, 2012, 02:57:37 AM »

Saiz,

Check reply in your other post.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor problem

« on: October 23, 2012, 02:55:53 AM »

Hi Saiz,

Stepper motor is the cheapest method of control.

Basically, if you cannot afford to buy stepper motors then you certainly will not be able to afford servo motor controllers, amplifiers, encoders etc. that will be necessary to control your dc motors.

Not much help really but, to my knowledge, there is no easy (cheap) solution to what you are proposing.

Tweakie.