[rescue] Motion controllers for robots?

[Ian Finder]

I may be able to hook you up with an old NI card, a la 50xx series.

On 12/22/10, 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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