[rescue] Motion controllers for robots?

[Robert Darlington]

G203V's for the win.  Can't kill em.  Heck, mine don't even get warm!

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net> wrote:

> Cheap is relative.  Affordable would include Gecko stuff.  Real easy to
>> work
>> with, too.  6 axis last time I bought one.
>> -Bob
>>
>
> It's being moved to Gecko drives, 2 axis at a time. Running two 203V's
> right now. Prob 4 soon.
>
> Using EMC2 right now. Probably going to run 2 LPT ports at first, but
> ghetto PC hax don't have enough I/O for encoders. Once thought is to do
> logic chips and pulse a pin. The other idea is some cheap NI cards from
> ebay.
>
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