salü probably little off-tropic but as there are some tinkerers around maybe someone could give me a point of departure. I'm trying to figure out controlling a belt conveyer attached to my computer/pd. basically i thought about controlling a motors movement - passing parameters for some estades to turn back and forth. if someone has experience in this direction in his sewing box (f.e. with modules from http://www.ak-modul-bus.de) i appreciate it if he/she could share it. thanks in advance&greets olsen
The way I'd go about this is using a microcontroller of some sort. A BASIC STAMP may be the best and easiest if you're just doing this one thing. Alternatively you can use a PIC, in which case my tutorial at http://www.0x09.com/Marlboro/physcomp might be useful. Basically the microcontroller would give you an interface between a motor and your computer.
You might be able to do it without a microcontroller, depending on the motor and its interface. You might even be able to just plug it in to a serial port, perhaps via a relay. The serial port uses +/-5V DC, which can be triggered using the [comport] external. You output that to a relay, which triggers the motor on or off. That's entirely speculative, I just pulled it out of my ass, and I've never tried anything like it before.
Cheers, Ian
olsen wrote:
salü probably little off-tropic but as there are some tinkerers around maybe someone could give me a point of departure. I'm trying to figure out controlling a belt conveyer attached to my computer/pd. basically i thought about controlling a motors movement - passing parameters for some estades to turn back and forth. if someone has experience in this direction in his sewing box (f.e. with modules from http://www.ak-modul-bus.de) i appreciate it if he/she could share it. thanks in advance&greets olsen
I have done all sorts of this kind of thing in two ways: MIDI->relay boards, and connecting the parallel port directly to solid-state relays to control them. For the solid-state relays, we used opto22 boards, but I am sure there are others around. I used this patch for the parport stuff written by Frank Hausman:
.hc
On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
The way I'd go about this is using a microcontroller of some sort. A
BASIC STAMP may be the best and easiest if you're just doing this one
thing. Alternatively you can use a PIC, in which case my tutorial at
http://www.0x09.com/Marlboro/physcomp might be useful. Basically the
microcontroller would give you an interface between a motor and your
computer.You might be able to do it without a microcontroller, depending on the
motor and its interface. You might even be able to just plug it in to
a serial port, perhaps via a relay. The serial port uses +/-5V DC,
which can be triggered using the [comport] external. You output that
to a relay, which triggers the motor on or off. That's entirely
speculative, I just pulled it out of my ass, and I've never tried
anything like it before.Cheers, Ian
olsen wrote:
salü probably little off-tropic but as there are some tinkerers around
maybe someone could give me a point of departure. I'm trying to figure out controlling a belt conveyer attached to my
computer/pd. basically i thought about controlling a motors movement - passing
parameters for some estades to turn back and forth. if someone has experience in this direction in his sewing box (f.e.
with modules from http://www.ak-modul-bus.de) i appreciate it if
he/she could share it. thanks in advance&greets olsen--
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hi guys merci for the postings and tips - seems I'm getting a direction. unfortunately at present I'm only occasionally connected to the net and no parport-device around for investigation but I'll tune in next week! so i remain with thanks l8r olsen
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I have done all sorts of this kind of thing in two ways: MIDI->relay boards, and connecting the parallel port directly to solid-state relays to control them. For the solid-state relays, we used opto22 boards, but I am sure there are others around. I used this patch for the parport stuff written by Frank Hausman:
.hc
On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
The way I'd go about this is using a microcontroller of some sort. A
BASIC STAMP may be the best and easiest if you're just doing this one thing. Alternatively you can use a PIC, in which case my tutorial at http://www.0x09.com/Marlboro/physcomp might be useful. Basically the microcontroller would give you an interface between a motor and your computer.You might be able to do it without a microcontroller, depending on the motor and its interface. You might even be able to just plug it in to a serial port, perhaps via a relay. The serial port uses +/-5V DC, which can be triggered using the [comport] external. You output that to a relay, which triggers the motor on or off. That's entirely speculative, I just pulled it out of my ass, and I've never tried anything like it before.
Cheers, Ian
olsen wrote:
salü probably little off-tropic but as there are some tinkerers around
maybe someone could give me a point of departure. I'm trying to figure out controlling a belt conveyer attached to my
computer/pd. basically i thought about controlling a motors movement - passing
parameters for some estades to turn back and forth. if someone has experience in this direction in his sewing box (f.e.
with modules from http://www.ak-modul-bus.de) i appreciate it if
he/she could share it. thanks in advance&greets olsen-- Ian Smith-Heisters http://www.0x09.com
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