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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?
« on: August 14, 2009, 04:36:12 PM »
Ken.. i suppose it might be asking a bit much but the ultimate test would be to hook your mill up to the parallel port, load a big path and cut air.. monitor processor usage then do the same while running it through the SS.

Not that i would ask you to do such a thing of course....  ;)

Did you require a cable conversion as mentioned above?

At 155 dollars i suppose im not loosing much giving it a shot... but im not keen to start editting my code because of the issues you getting :(

thanks for feedback.

Regards
Chris

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?
« on: August 13, 2009, 11:15:09 PM »
Sounds good, im waiting on Ken to fill me in a little more on it, i believe there are still a few software issues to be resolved? Im quite keen to get one if it significantly reduces system overhead as i want to hook up two webcams, one over X and one over A so I can tip2tip at the same time while i am jogging with mach. Currently I can have a single webcam on with a large path but if i roll A everything goes to hell in a handbasket and i hit the ceiling with my processor.

i suppose i could go for a quad or dual core system and somehow try force the camera routines onto a different core than mach but seems like it should be simpler if something helps take the load off mach. in much the same way a graphics card takes the load off graphics routines on the processor.

what does it cost by the way?



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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?
« on: August 13, 2009, 04:01:17 PM »
thanks dude, but i suspect we both already know the answer.  how much was the smooth stepper and was it a  pita to install?

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Tangent Corner / Re: millers humour...
« on: August 13, 2009, 04:00:07 PM »
mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaahaha

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first time i ever cut metal... my nerves were shot.. even tho its only aluminum..

hogged out bulk on my lathe then wrote rest of path to trin and cut concentrically to my own mill. i made a startling discovery.. metal is not wax.. its noisy and its messy...

oh yeah its a new idea for a key for myself for flip+rotary parts.




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some back from setting and others out on their way.

im enjoying my mill.. makes life jsut that bit easier.


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yup will do. will be next week some time

:)

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here is something a little bit different..

from the cast to finished in logical order


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