Introduction to Mach3 tutorial This is the first Mach3 tutorial in a series of tutorials which will help you to know PoKeys devices and how to use them with Mach 3 software for controlling your CNC machine. The tutorials will begin with simple configurations which will describe how to setup Mach3 and PoKeys plugin properly … Read more
USB oscilloscopes in general offers really low power consumption. Low power consumption is important factor when buying an oscilloscope for two main reasons. One is definitely saving the energy and the second reason is highly connected with the first one and it’s autonomy of measurement system. Measurement system usually represent a personal computer and USB … Read more
PC oscilloscope software represents a mandatory part in USB oscilloscope measurement package. Without it we cannot process and analyze data acquired by USB oscilloscope. In previous post we explained how we can use USB oscilloscope to acquire date, let’s do similar now for PC oscilloscope software. . . Figure 1 shows complete measurement package which … Read more
PoKeys I/O devices family There are multiple variations of PoKeys I/O and DAQ devices (digital acquisition devices) available. The PoKeys57 family consists of PoKeys57U, PoKeys57E and PoKeys57CNC, which is our latest addition to the PoKeys device family. PoKeys devices in general PoKeys devices are highly-customizable general purpose I/O devices that extend the I/O capabilities of … Read more
PoKeys library PoKeysLib is a free (open-source) cross-platform library for PoKeys devices that allows the communication with PoKeys devices on various operating systems (including Windows, Linux, UNIX etc.). It even allows the use of PoKeys devices on embedded systems (Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone etc.). The library is available at PoKeysLib repository at Bitbucket PoKeys library PoKeysLib … Read more
Preview in new tab(opens in a new tab) USB Oscilloscope is digital oscilloscope connected to computer via USB cable. Although this definition is pretty straight forward it has some background. Let’s start at the beginning. . Oscilloscope is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of constantly varying signal voltage and representing it … Read more
Nowadays, one cannot imagine production processes without the use of computer numerical control (CNC) machines. . These machines drive the production of complex and precisely dimensioned objects out of variety of materials. Let it be a mill, a lathe, EDM or a plasma cutter, the precise positioning of the work tool is controlled and supervised by … Read more