Stuart Stevenson wrote about his Dah-Lih EMC2 conversion on the emc-mailinglist, and has allowed me to publish these pictures of his mill. I’ve scaled the pictures to 1024 pixels wide – click the picture to see it in high-resolution. Machine after conversion. Machine before conversion. Pendant has original CRT and buttons. Control electronics. Jon Elson’s [...]

Since last Monday, I’ve been adding to the range of available pyVCP widgets: Spinbox: Jeff Epler suggested that my initial ‘jognumber’ would be better implemented with a Tkinter spinbox. It sets the value of a FLOAT by either pressing the up and down arrows, or using the mouse-wheel. Radiobutton: This widget creates a number of [...]

Maybe the most popular GUI for EMC is called AXIS. It shows a number of useful buttons, the 3D view, G-code file view etc. But depending on machine configuration and hardware, users might want to display different things on the screen and have customized controls. There’s been some previous work on virtual control panels, or [...]

One part of our continuing CNC-mill upgrade is to connect a jog-pendant to the mill which will enable jogging and some other manual controls in EMC2. Here are some pictures and notes of the present status.

By popular demand, here are the schematics and pcb layouts for the optoisolator cards I made for use with the Mesa Electronics 5i20 servocard.