As part of my large laser build I’ve acquired this Fanuc enclosure. I’m looking for some creative ideas on what I can do with the buttons that will work with the smoothie. As you can see there are a series of buttons. Some are momentary and some are on/off type. I guess it does’t matter much what they actually do but it would be fun if I can make them work in some manner. Any ideas??
You could mimic the buttons like I put on my add on controller module. Although I set these manually I have it set up so that the controller could also control them.
Controllable:
… Air Assist (Switch/light)
… Vacuum (Switch/light)
Not controllable:
… Smoothie Reset(Switch/light)
… Interlock open (light)
You could include these if you had the right type of switches:
… Laser enable
… Laser fire