Propeller powered lathe tool changer

Brian_B

Hi,
I just finished up on my lathe tool changer, It uses and encoder to sense current tool position and displays it on a LCD . You input the new tool position with a 4X4 keypad and hit enter ,it then uses a Gecko stepper driver to advance the tool to it's next position. There is a couple of bells and whistels I am going to add later ,but seems to work good for now.

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Thank's Brian



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Dgswaner

that's pretty sweet! I've love to get a set up like that for my lathe. I haven't looked at your code, it adjust to give you the right cutting height for each tool or do you just secure it in the fixture at the correct height? I hate changing tools!!!

Nice work. did you make a fancy box for your electronics?

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DGSwaner

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