Thread: Hacking a Roland CAMM3 PNC-3000
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I've extended the table 2" forwards with a lip. Then I decided that driving my Warco mill using MSDOS was a right PITA after seeing what Windows 7 can do with this thing.
I have the new software about 80% complete so I'm going to do that before I cut the splashguards. It takes a DXF file, converts it to a cut and then drives the mill.
Back in a few weeks, if I don't get sidetracked again :whistling:
Robin
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14-11-2011 #2
i love this little machine..
What materials are you going to cut with this and what sort of things are you going to produce?
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14-11-2011 #4
Ah so i did.
Sounds very interesting. keep it up mate
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28-10-2015 #5
Hi Robin,
I have an old PNC3000 at home, used it few years ago but EPROMS seem to be dead now (25 years old...).
I understand you have reprogrammed yours, and I would like to give another life to my machine.
Do you know where I can find the original EPROM content?
On the longer run, I would like to replace all this venerable electronics with a Raspberry PI + some kind of controller board (the one used on 3D printers or a custom designed one, linux enabled if possible). Do you know about such initiatives?
Many thanks for your help
Kind Regards
Jean
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15-12-2019 #6
Hi Jean,
Are you looking into selling the machine? I would be interested in buying it.
Regards,
Alex
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25-09-2020 #7
Is there any more information on this?
I've just bought one and was reading through and then it stopped.............
Would love to hear more
Snowy
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I can run the motors so X,Y and Z all arrive at their target simultaneously, I can read all the buttons and quadrature encoders, I can light the lights and stuff. I can read a sequence of positions and speeds from a serial host then execute them as a tool path.Whether that is of any use to you rather depends on whether this next bit looks like something you could understand...
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; Home: Go to the limit switches then return
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Home:
ld hl,0 ; zero coords so we get the return offset
ld (Xcoord),hl
ld (Ycoord),hl
ld (Zcoord),hl
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ld a,4 ; Set the sequence so it starts
ld (hseq),a ; with a lift
ld hl,NmiHome ; Tune in to the Home service
ld (NMI),hl
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call NotIdleLoop; ; returns when stepping is complete
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ld hl,0 ; We started from zero so the position
ld de,(Xcoord) ; counters will have the distance moved
and a ; To get a return co-ordinate we need
sbc hl,de ; to reverse the counts.
ld (mX),hl ; subtract the position from zero
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ld hl,0 ; repeat for Y
ld de,(Ycoord)
and a
sbc hl,de
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26-09-2020 #9
Eh?, that looks like Z80 (if I can remember 40 years ago)
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I'd rather rather do Z80 Assembler than STM code using HAL, I like to get down and dirty
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