Hi to all great minds:)
I want to make a low-cost Stitch Regulator for a quilting machine for my Wife... I will place the quilting machine on X and Y carriages and this will move the whole quilting machine in X/Y direction.. The X and Y carriages will be controlled by stepper motor by the computer...
Now I have search on the internet and found many cruise controller for sewing machine..The purpose of those controllers is to give the equal length of stitch at different speeds of carriages... they are using encoders at X and Y carriages that sense the motion and send the movement into the cruise controller circuit that then send command to the sewing machine to regulate the stitch..These controllers are normally plugged into the sewing machine Padle controll port..
Now the X/Y carriage can be controlled with the help of Mach3, but the problem is How to control the equal length of stitch?..
How can we control the stitch length with Mach3?..Any ideas and solutions will be highly appreciated...
You can see the professional cruise controller here
http://www.quilterscruisecontrol.com/BUT I NEED SIMPLE LOW COST controller for this purpose..Is thier anybody who can help me in this...Just give me an idea so that i can start..
(I also have an idea to attach a AC motor to the wheel of sewing machine to get the control of stitch via arduino only...)
Thanks
PS:
Many of us can make a low-cost open source open hardware quilting machine controler an d hardware and can gift it to relatives and especially the womens...