Re: [Emc-users] Writeup on the CNC4PC MPG6 & C22 pendant

[Rainer S. <lem...@gm...>]

several weekends later.... nah.. I stick with the 'of the shelve'
solution even if it's slightly on the ghetto side... I'll have it
running 15 minutes after I get it into my greedy mitts.
And then I can concentrate on cutting cool stuff instead of playing
with my hardware 8)
R

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Rob Jansen <ro...@my...> wrote:
> Rainer Schmidt wrote:
>> I just bought one from ebay for $15. A Logitech RumblePad... Probably
>> it gives force feedback when you run the bit into a fixture... lol
>> Rainer
>>
> But probably the fixture will be dented- much like the car is dented
> when you bang your head on the hood afterwards;-)
> Rather than fumble around with a joypad I would buy a keyboard and use
> those electronics together with some good keys.
> For almost the same price you then have an industrial looking keypad
> controller.
>
> Or ... use a USB numeric keypad - you may have to reprogram some of the
> keys.
>
> Rob
>