Hi, I've just bought a 6DOF robot arm that I intend to drive with EMC.
I have a reasonable background in small machine conversions and fabrication (My CNC Adventures), have done a lot with Mach3, and am comfortable building the PWM amplifiers.
This will, however be my first implementation using EMC so there are some things I'm unsure of.
Can anyone
A. Confirm that a Mesa 5i20 card can generate 6 pwm outputs, read 6 encoders and have some IO left over?
B. Suggest what level of PC processing power would be appropriate for closed loop control of 6 axii?
Many thanks in advance
PK