PnP feeder

So I know SMD Pick and Place machines is kind of an oddity for Linuxcnc however one of the possible machines I want to try linuxcnc on is an old Mancorp Pick and Place machine the X,Y,Z, and A axis is pretty straight forward, advancing the feeders however is not. I am sure I can treat them as a rack style ATC but I would need to advance the feeder after a component is picked up. Fortunately the mechanism that advances the feeder is a pneumatic cylinder that is on a seperate
3 position slide so that one cylinder can advance 3 different feeders ( obviously not at the same time ). This machine has a total of
48 feeder slots ( 24 per side ).
16 feeder advancing cylinders ( 8 per side )
4 rack position cylinders ( 2 per side )
and I have to have 2 more air / vacuum control solenoids for the head to pickup and release of the components when placing them . Which means I need to control 22 separate pneumatic control solenoids

So I guess my question is are there any examples presumably rack style ATC setups that has to deal with multiple relays / solenoids?
That way I can figure out how to do it.
hopefully I have enough I/O pins to make it work ( 6i25 and 7i76 )

sorry I don't have more pics I hope to load up more soon.

thanks tommylight I will try looking into that route . As I said I know PnP is a bit of an oddity for LinuxCnC plus no ready made GUI's for it there's a program called OpenPnP that's mostly ready to go but it has 1 major flaw it relies on Windows .

EDIT - I later found out that it is compatible with Linux. Thank you Aciera for bringing that to my attention.

there is a very similar machine that is operational ( a few years newer ) I have to wait for them to run a job on it to get some video. for now though here are some pics I took while I was there today



those two cylinders are what moves the rack into 1 of 3 positions. position 1 both cylinders off . position 2 one cylinder is on. position 3 both cylinders are on



this one shows the advancer cylinders when 1 is activated the white cap extends about an inch to push the advancer arm. when off
an internal spring retracts it.



this is what the cylinders look like underneath



a top view with the feeders still in place



the new 6i25 with an additional DB25 connector above it



view of the plugs

I have seen the video's and the github code . He is also on this site, I am glad to see he also has a web site.

I got some video of a feeder and the rack actuators working. I decided to hot wire it instead of waiting
for the operational machine to run a job. I will be posting the video of it up later tonight.

I uploaded video to my channel on Youtube. I hope it answers everyone's questions thus far. If anyone needs video of something else on the machine let me know. I will see what I can do.

Youtube

on a side note why does it take over 30 minutes to upload a not even 2 minute video in standard definition on Youtube.

Aciera . Actually I want to mimic how OpenPnP works, but do it exclusively with LinuxCnC and as I said the biggest problem that I see with OpenPnP is the fact that it relies on Windows 10 and Windows has a very bad habit of taking your commands and saying " I will get to it if and when I feel like it". For me this project will be a very steep learning curve especially since I am not a computer programmer....yet. That said so was learning EFI, CAD/CAM, CNC machining, anodizing and PCB layout software , if I could learn how to do that, I can learn how to do this. If I get stuck that's what YouTube and the Forums are for.
I hope this didn't come across as argumentative that was in no way my intention.

EDIT- I later found out that OpenPnP also runs on Linux. Thank you Aciera for bringing that to my attention.