Browsing Posts tagged Servo

I’m continuing to work on the 3rd installment of the EMC2 and Servo tutorial, but I realized that I hadn’t seen any great treatments out there for simple e-stop implementations with EMC2 or otherwise in the hobby CNC realms. This is the solution I’ll be using as part of the tutorial apparatus. Safety systems aren’t […]

Well I’d planned on spending the evening snapping pics and scratching out the next part in the inkjet and servo lab series, but when I pulled my trusty Olympus SP-350 out of the backpack, I discovered it made some odd grinding noises, extended and retracted the lens a couple times eventually displaying “Zoom Error” on the screen. ARGH!!!

Another concept for 3D printing on a re-purposed inkjet printer. [youtube id=”2nbtZOolSIY” w=”240″ h=”190″]   More Links: Servo and PID tutorials from Galil Motion Control Inc. Servo Tuning Tutorial (PDF)  from PMC Corp.

Some links that have turned up while doing research: Musings on the usefulness of inkjet printers for a variety of applications.  So ok, I’m not the only one who’s been thinking about this, but here I hope to actually do something about it! Anders is playing with EMC2 and RepRap functionality as well.  I’ve experimented […]