Re: Lathe & Mill

[Jon Elson <elson-at-pico-systems.com>]

Richard wrote:

>Hello Ray,
>
>Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 5:46:01 PM, you wrote:
>
>RH> Your trade is also a good fit with the EMC because it is open source.  
>RH> When you see things that don't seem to work the way that you think they 
>RH> should, change them.  
>
>Yes, that part does sound appealing. What happens about driving
>hardware under Linux?. If I made my own card with encoder
>interface and DACs then I know I'm into EmcMot territory but is
>anything else needed, like a device driver of some kind?
>
>  
>
There are several routines needed.  Look in ../emc/src/emcmot/stg.c for 
a driver for the STG card.
it has routines to read encoders, write to velocity DACs, and read and 
write digital I/O for
limit and home switches, etc.

Jon