On 9 November 2017 at 04:54, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:

> It would be an interesting experiment. I at one point, and may finish it
> eventually, made what was going to be a 4 axis jog box using those teeny
> motors as the signal generators, but then realized I didn't have near
> enough i/o in a 5i25 to hook it up, so its all in a box in the basement
> waiting for more i/o to magically appear.

If you have a 5i25 then you have the option of lots of smart-serial
devices. You probably already have at least one smart-serial channel
on the expansion connector.
The serial GPIO cards only have 1kHz IO, but many also have onboard
mpg counters. The 7i73 has 4 encoder channels.

-- 
atp
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designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and
lunatics."
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