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PhenixRising
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Posted: 12:49pm 20 May 2024

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Something the Cap'n mentioned in another thread reminded me to post this stuff. It might be of use, who knows.

It's the code from a 5-axis articulated-arm measuring machine. I'm no-longer in that business so might as well post the code.

I haven't bothered going through the zip-file so there's prolly a bunch of junk in there as well.

TMCBAS.ZIP

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Posted: 08:42pm 20 May 2024

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The file is password protected.

"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"

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Posted: 09:30pm 20 May 2024

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palcal said The file is password protected.

Weird...it opens every time for me, both the original and the one that I just downloaded from here

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Posted: 10:04pm 20 May 2024

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I can list the files but each looks to be password protected.

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Posted: 10:07pm 20 May 2024

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In W10 File Explorer and 7Zip the file list can be viewed but all the individual files are locked.

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Posted: 05:46am 21 May 2024

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2nd attempt

Measuring center source.zip

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Posted: 06:35am 21 May 2024

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Hi Phenix,

Sounds like real professional stuff, when it includes a MIDI music player....

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Posted: 07:19am 21 May 2024

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Some (including .BAS files) have a lot of non-ASCII chars.

Not MMBasic I gather.

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Posted: 07:46am 21 May 2024

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JohnS said Some (including .BAS files) have a lot of non-ASCII chars.

Tokenised. QB (and lots of other Basics) had the facility to save either a straight ASCII or the tokenised source. Some defaulted to tokenized - the CPC had a ,A option in the save command to over-ride it.

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Posted: 08:26am 21 May 2024

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Volhout said Hi Phenix,

Sounds like real professional stuff, when it includes a MIDI music player....

Volhout

That was for speech prompts; the probe was a non-contact-laser and having to keep looking up at a screen was inconvenient.

"Professional": Based on recent reports, I figured that now was not a good time to mention that they were used by Boeing for quality control

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Posted: 08:29am 21 May 2024

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@Volhout

Since the PicoMite now has the ability to read high-resolution incremental encoders, maybe someone might want to create something similar

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Posted: 08:31am 21 May 2024

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JohnS said Some (including .BAS files) have a lot of non-ASCII chars.

Not MMBasic I gather.

John

Hi John,

It was MS PDS 7 (fancy QuickBASIC). I open with Notepad++ and all looks good.

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Posted: 12:13pm 21 May 2024

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No worries so long as not corrupted files.

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Posted: 09:32pm 21 May 2024

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would be interesting to see the device in action..

here's a simple 3-axis thing that I did with the micromite,
just O-level trigonometry, a very short video,
I can post code if anyone wants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s34UqWbSSDA

regs, Dave

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Posted: 11:11pm 21 May 2024

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DaveJacko said would be interesting to see the device in action..

The last one was delivered to Fiat Ferroviaria in 1993

I wish that I had even still-pics because it was a gorgeous piece of engineering.

I don't know if you have been following but @Volhout has provided the capability for the Pico to read high-speed/resolution incremental encoders, huge potential, here.

Do you fancy working on something like this?

The thing used to sell for US$80K which is just not possible today.

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Posted: 11:45pm 21 May 2024

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What would be really cool, would be to port Steve Annin's AR4 to the PicoMite.

He's done some amazing work but still uses steppers (albeit closed loop).
A real robot requires that its joints are compliant...impossible with steppers but not with true servos which are able to torque-limit.

Would do wonders for MMBasic exposure

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