ATC Project - Debug phase

Sorry, don't understand the question.  Where is it physically?  Or the hal connections?

EDIT - or the carousel.comp file?  It's located in linuxcnc-dev/src/hal/components/

And I double-checked by opening carousel.comp in that location and it's the modified version (i.e. line 396 changed to "old_index = ind;"

And carousel.c has a Date Modified = Today, so I'm fairly sure the new version is installed/compiled.

spumco wrote:

Sorry, don't understand the question.  Where is it physically? 

Where is it physically. Is it practicable for me to beat it into submission in person?

Depends on your location.  I'm in Ohio, USA, so it does not require space travel.

Or I can ship the pieces to you for a personal Advent Calendar of Industrial Aggression episode.  Your choice.

Seriously - have you just lost interest?  I can go back to beating my head against the ATC-as-axis option.

If you want a physical duplicate to test with, I'll be happy to buy a stepper, drive and cheapo gearbox and have them sent to you.  'Cause thats all it really is.

I foresee a "open source DIY CNC tool changer" in the making.
Now if that was 3D printed, i would have it working by tomorrow!
Thinking of it i never searched for something like that....
No go, turns back results for 3D printer tool changers!

I think I read an older post on this board to the effect of: "Building an ATC is easy.  Programming is the hard part."

They weren't kidding.  I guess the only hard part of the actual build was finding a good quality planetary reducer for cheap.  Everything else has been relatively uncomplicated.

If we can come up with a reliable control scheme that works reliably and doesn't require a geneva drive or encoder, that'd lower the bar for quite a few people.

And when I say "we", I mean "Andy & others" while I do what they tell me.

-Use "carousel" component as is
-Use a stepper motor or step/dir servo
-use an index and a pocket sensor
-3D printed almost everything???
-Use stepper for arm motion???
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Just some random thoughts ...
Anyone good with 3D design?