Re: 5th & 6th axis

["Matt Shaver" <mshaver-at-erols.com>]

> From: Till Franitza <xfa-at-isw.uni-stuttgart.de>
> I think if the 6 Axes of EMC work with "trivial" transformation, i will be
> able to get a hexa working with it.

There are "hexakins" in the distribution and a fellow named Brian Register
built a little hexapod model that was run with the EMC. His contact info is:

Brian Register
University of Florida
Graduate Student - Mechanical Engineering
register-at-ufl.edu

register76-at-yahoo.com

Let us know more about your project (Pictures!!!). I'm interested in building
one of these myself, although on a less impressive scale than yours or the
one at NIST.

Matt

P.S. I read an earlier post of yours:

> Is it possible that it has something to do with the control-lines of the
> lpt? Axis 1..4 are cabled with data-lines and they work. the rest is on
> control-lines and they are electrically different. They are open collector.

I think that you might need to have a second lpt port for the other two axes.
You need to talk to Fred Proctor about this as I know it's been done before,
so it can work for you too!