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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Picomite proves the "experts" wrong.
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| PhenixRising Guru  Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 857 |
Bridgeport Interact-4 CNC milling machine won't find it's home reference on the Z axis. Experts arrive and decide that the encoder inside the motor was bad and that they'd have to pull it out. No scope or anything to prove the theory and pulling the motor is quite a major operation. I wasn't having it and so I ran over with a PicoMite, programmed to read quadrature and the Index pulse (on interrupt). Motor is absolutely fine. Informed the experts that this little chip could out-perform the entire Heidenhain CNC controller, including the VDU   Edited 2024-10-24 01:36 by PhenixRising |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6783 |
And to top it all off, it's a YD-RP2040 (or other similar Chinese el cheapo relation) rather than a Pico! :) Such artistic wiring too. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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Marcel27 Regular Member  Joined: 13/08/2024 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 53 |
I love it!   If you use AI, you lose your mind. |
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| circuit Senior Member  Joined: 10/01/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 245 |
I am in awe! |
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