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Joined: 22/02/2006
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1226
| Posted: 02:01am 20 Apr 2024 |
G'Day Guy's,
Well finally some shed time and got thinking about this project, now that old parallel port controller still worked from back in the day and years ago I did make a pcb breakout board to get access to all the pins.
Found all my data I recorded so got the old Mach3 info and the parallel port pin outs so connecting to the CMM2 will be easy.
I'm waiting on a PS2-usb dongle so I can get the mouse going, now I did have an old PS2/USB mouse a microsoft one and when trying to load that well the CMM2 reported the mouse didn't connect and went into error mode. Disabling the mouse fixed the problem and I do have an old PS2 mouse here.
Now the way I want to go is make a GUI file then each task can be done before moving on to the next one.
I did put 2 extra outlets on Z axis frame so the capture mode will be a good one to get going.
Regards Bryan