Industrial Propeller Application at the Assembly Technologies Trade Show in Chi
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I'm here at the Assembly Technologies show in Chicago this week. If anyone else is here, make sure you stop by a take a look at a few industrial apps powered by Propellers. I think our booth number is 1012, for Titan Tool Company. The main application is called the Tap-Assist. It's a PropStickUSB dropped onto a board I designed. The board basically makes the PropStick into a PLC with optically isolated I/O's. This board is used to moniter an encoder mounted to the Z axis of a Power tool support arm (The Arm supports the wait of the tool as well as the torque reaction). Using the encoder, the prop calculates how deep into the part the tool is. When it gets to a preset depth, it will either reverse the tool (for tapping) of stop the tool (for screw/stud driving or chamfering). The prop holds six different depth and action combnations, all set vai a usb link to a laptop. The user starts a GUI I wrote in python set the depths.
We tested it using several 0.5 inch think steel plates. We chamfered, Tapped, and drove screws into 180 holes per plate. We then measured the difference in height between all the screw heads. The maximum difference was 0.005 inches. I'll post a couple photos in this thread as soon as I can.
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We tested it using several 0.5 inch think steel plates. We chamfered, Tapped, and drove screws into 180 holes per plate. We then measured the difference in height between all the screw heads. The maximum difference was 0.005 inches. I'll post a couple photos in this thread as soon as I can.
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"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." -
"If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."
"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."
"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."
"Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue."