Handheld Jog device

CNC Machines
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Electronics are my weakest field. I think it world take more work even if they have the hardware. Typically wheeled pendants on industrial machines send pulses to the motors themselves if I recall correctly. For it to work in GRBL and gcode senders like Carbide Motion use keyboard commands. Maybe there’s more in the implementation?

Again, I’d love a wheeled pendant.

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The pendant sends pulses to the controller (or to a module attached to the controller). Trying to drive motors directly would not end well.

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At one point in time the CNCjs folks added support for the Contour Design ShuttleXPress:

Not quite a wheeled pendant, but at least it’s round and has the single control for an axis thing happening.

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Yeah, a ShuttleXpress would be pretty good. Meanwhile I can’t even get gamepads to work.

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If memory serves, mine worked after a fashion once keyboard shortcuts were set up — the problem was I couldn’t find a keyboard macro program which would reconfigure the buttons based on pressing a button.

Note that there are two different sorts of devices:

  • game controllers such as the Logitech F310

which should work if the O.S. allows Carbide Motion to “see” the device.

  • game pads which require re-mapping the buttons as keyboard presses, see:
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