{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-18T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-09-18T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T14:38:17","slug":"close-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Close Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opposite of remote control.<\/p>\n

So far, considerable time is being spent, finding the Zero position on the work.\u00a0 Part of the reason has been that the computer keyboard and the machine are about 10 feet apart and my back is to the machine while I am at the keyboard controlling it.\u00a0 This has led to some body contortions and running back and forth about 10 times to tweak the machine into the X0 Y0 position.<\/p>\n

The solution, a pendant!<\/p>\n

I found this el cheapo USB numeric keypad at Big Lots $6<\/p>\n

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With EMC I can use the keypad arrow keys to drive the machine X and Y axis.\u00a0 Also PgUp and PgDn control the Z axis.\u00a0 The Home key homes etc… very nice, did not have to change my setup files or anything, just plug and play.\u00a0 Fits in the hand pretty well too.<\/p>\n

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I attempeted to make a really long USB cable.\u00a0 For now, it doesn’t work, I think its the length, seems to work on USB 2.0 machines and not USB 1.0.\u00a0 The standard says 5 meters (16 feet 5 inches) for 2.0 and 3 meters (9 feet 10 inches) for 1.0.\u00a0 My cable ended up about 14 feet, can’t tell for sure if its flakey connections or the cable length.<\/p>\n

At any rate it works very well with a short USB cable and is a huge improvement over the keyboard, even at the shorter length.<\/p>\n

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The opposite of remote control. So far, considerable time is being spent, finding the Zero position on the work.\u00a0 Part of the reason has been that the computer keyboard and the machine are about 10 feet apart and my back is to the machine while I am at the keyboard controlling it.\u00a0 This has led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ozorebuild","tag-ozo-cnc-rebuild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}