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Another homebrew pendant...
In the process of building my own homebrew pendant to work with Mach3 on my small Sherline mill. It uses a PIC to simulate the quadrature signal normally associated with regular MPG... Tested the code last night and it works fine... no add-on required thus it will work with any version of Mach3...
It has 4 dedicated buttons for Axis +, Axis -, Axis Select and MPG Mode. A visual confirmation of selected axis (X, Y, Z) and mode (X1, X10, X100, continuous) via LEDs. The remaining 9 switches are wired but actual functions are configured in Mach3... Power is taken from USB port...
Will be working on suitable casing tonight (if I can find the time)... :rainfro:
I'll provide more photo and details at my blog
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It's done... I'm all too happy...
Did the label works last night... The label was printed on color laser printer and subsequently laminated on one side with laminating machine... Punched the LED holes with paper puncher... The button holes were cut using circle cutter... 3M spray adhesive complete the process... result below... :rainfro:
p/s: Just realized the X-Axis LED label is wrongly labeled as Z-Axis... dang, I'm just gonna let it be...
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And the files are here...
The zip file contains
- the PCB design and components placement
- sample label above (with the mistake corrected)
- the hex file to burn into the PIC16F628