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Saturday, 6 August 2016

Lathe DRO 

I've mounted the ARM based DRO on the wall and attached two gauges to the lathe. The Y axis isn't attached and the code mirrors the X axis, but apart from that it's working:


The gauges are here:


I've re-cased one PCB but left the other one with a display. I'm not sure what I'll do with the next ones, it depends on the space I have available. There's only two channels of gauge decoders plugged in at the moment, both decode the cheap Chinese gauge data streams (24 bit). For some reason I've not worked out I have a signal problem with the channel that attaches to the more expensive gauge that outputs the 2x24bit data stream. I need to build some more gauge channels and attach gauges to the mill and the third gauge to the lathe.

The TFT display isn't working at the moment, I have to get the SPI protocol working, I'm going to do that on a breadboard.

I'm going to try the DRO out as it is for a while and see how it goes.



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