Fischertechnik Interface with XY Plotter

andypugh wrote:

Flo1K wrote:

Do you want to see pictures of the contruction as well?

Of course

Look at this. It has 17 by 30 cm² of working area and is manufactured by "Learnware" it came a magent and a styropor cutter.

I don't ecspect that much. But the frame looks ok and is probably much better than that one I had otherwise build out of wood

Hopefully the parts arrive today so I can solder up the controller at his weekend.

greets,
Flo

Hi People,

I've got that thing running with 3xLM298/297 (only 2 in use for X/Y) and a laser from a DVD burner which is running at about 180mA atm.

For ON/OFF control I use the M62/M65 P0 code for enabling and disabling Digital Out 0.

My problem is now, that the disabling of the port isn't working properly. It might have to deal with the cam postprocessing but even if I hit the emergency stop, the outputs stays enabled!

How can I debug any better? What might I do wrong?


regards,
Flo

I am talking about the soft buttons (F1, F2) .
It doesn't matter if I hit Stop, machine on/off or the e-stop button.

The attachment shows the HAL state after hitting the e-stop.

Hey Andy, thx for your suggestion.

I've a amp enable in the system, so it could work with that, but is it also possible to add a relation to the spindle enable bit?

So like: LASER ON = ((digital out 0 == true) AND (spindle on == true)) ELSE (LASER OFF)?