Somehow I think its sacrilege to use game pads on an industrial controller, but we have to what we have to do until Centroid finishes the MPG Pendant.
The idea is similar to yours. Use the arrow buttons on the left for X & Y axis. Then use the top and bottom buttons on the right for the Z axis. The buttons left and right could be used to select jog speed and select between continuous and incremental. Not sure about the buttons on the top right and left. But I am going to retrofit a router and will need something other than a touchscreen.
Parts should be here Monday. If it works I'll do a brief video.
Marty
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That really is good, excellent infact, because I think if i'm not wrong it means you can use an xbox or playstation contrller (which have 2 joysticks and lots of buttons) for free. Is that right???
midy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:24 pm
That really is good, excellent infact, because I think if i'm not wrong it means you can use an xbox or playstation contrller (which have 2 joysticks and lots of buttons) for free. Is that right???
Software is $7
Official page is here: https://joytokey.net/en/
And it does imply a USB game controller is programmable. Well see on Monday evening.....
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midy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:24 pm
That really is good, excellent infact, because I think if i'm not wrong it means you can use an xbox or playstation contrller (which have 2 joysticks and lots of buttons) for free. Is that right???
Software is $7
Official page is here: https://joytokey.net/en/
And it does imply a USB game controller is programmable. Well see on Monday evening.....
That's odd it's $7. When I did a Google search, it took me to their website, and I clicked a link that sent me to cnet, and it was free.
I’m using an Xbox 360 controller with Rewasd mapping software. For any useful functionality, Rewasd costs $14. It works well though, and there are more than enough joysticks available on the Xbox controller. It’s nice to have options though.
Somehow I think its sacrilege to use game pads on an industrial controller, but we have to what we have to do until Centroid finishes the MPG Pendant.
The idea is similar to yours. Use the arrow buttons on the left for X & Y axis. Then use the top and bottom buttons on the right for the Z axis. The buttons left and right could be used to select jog speed and select between continuous and incremental. Not sure about the buttons on the top right and left. But I am going to retrofit a router and will need something other than a touchscreen.
Parts should be here Monday. If it works I'll do a brief video.
Marty
I get what you mean. CNC Machining is actually my profession. I've been doing it for the past 15 years, and going from Haas, Fadal, Kitamura, and Akira Seiki machines with nice industrial controls and mpg, to a nice industrial like control/interface with an arcade joystick, kind of sucks, but like you said, we do what we have to do. Hopefully a solid mpg comes out soon enough, that'll make it feel a little less like a toy, and more like a machine. For the moment, I ended up getting one of these from Amazon:
It comes with 2 joysticks and 20 buttons. I'm going to attempt to make a homemade control board that has a little more options than just 9 useable buttons.
Somehow I think its sacrilege to use game pads on an industrial controller, but we have to what we have to do until Centroid finishes the MPG Pendant.
The idea is similar to yours. Use the arrow buttons on the left for X & Y axis. Then use the top and bottom buttons on the right for the Z axis. The buttons left and right could be used to select jog speed and select between continuous and incremental. Not sure about the buttons on the top right and left. But I am going to retrofit a router and will need something other than a touchscreen.
Parts should be here Monday. If it works I'll do a brief video.
Marty
I get what you mean. CNC Machining is actually my profession. I've been doing it for the past 15 years, and going from Haas, Fadal, Kitamura, and Akira Seiki machines with nice industrial controls and mpg, to a nice industrial like control/interface with an arcade joystick, kind of sucks, but like you said, we do what we have to do. Hopefully a solid mpg comes out soon enough, that'll make it feel a little less like a toy, and more like a machine. For the moment, I ended up getting one of these from Amazon:
It comes with 2 joysticks and 20 buttons. I'm going to attempt to make a homemade control board that has a little more options than just 9 useable buttons.
Cool. Keep us posted on the build. Pictures along the way.
Marty
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