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A while ago I started writing a web based 2D CAM package that would provide the sort of all in one functionality that things like Silhouette Studio provides for vinyl cutters. The idea was that it is...

sorry i haven't got any info on other machines.

if anyone is wondering how i am getting on whit the whole new software thing, I kinda got fed up of all the different ways of doing things in VB so...

Controller sent me the manuals which have the circuit diagrams in. send your address to me at binraker[at]engineeringscotland[dot]com and I will forward them to you. In the mean time i have attached...

If you are missing the power supply its not a complex thing to build. There is a 12VDC supply for the electronics, 100VDC for the spindle motor and a 24V supply for the lamp. Then just some relays to...

Here is the pic of the new controller board.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/binraker/2091844638/

Having whipped out the old controller and replaced it with a board with one PIC and a MAX232, I have managed to get the machine to be controlled by a usb to serial port and some VB software. so far i...

Mach 3 just crashes the win2k machine and now I am getting annoyed.

There for, throwing all concept of sanity to the four winds of the wilderness, I have started writing new software in VB, built...

Mach3 just crashes my machine so building a new controller and writing new code looks like the most interesting way to go.

x3UK, do you have any diagrams/pics of the controller board? If it is...

USB to parallel was a failure as one might imagine. Interestingly the chip it uses, Prolific PL2035, supports the full IEEE1284 specification but the drivers supplied only allow it to be used as a...

txcowdog, I'm not sure that ripping the guts out is the way to go yet. maybe if it continues to be annoying. You will still need a power supply for the spindle motor if you gut yours and since the...

had I looked a bit closer (and read a bit more carefully), i would have realised that BOTH serial and parallel communications are required. there was me thinking it was a serial OR parallel thing....

Thanks for the response.

Right, after some fiddling the thing is talking to my computer. one null modem adaptor made up and the boxford software will control spindle, detect the guard and E-stop...

I have just bought on of theses machines and downloaded the V6.03 software. it is not communicating though. I am probably being a bit silly in that I am using an XP laptop with a USB to serial...