X-Pendant continued

[MechanicalGoose]

I’m creating a new topic for 2020 continuing the previous discussions for folks new to X-Carve and the forum.
http://www.mechanicalgoose.com/x-pendant.html
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X-Pendant v2

Continuing my adventure for an X-Carve Pendant. This is a very much overdue update to: Unfortunately the wireless circuit chip that I was using has been obsoleted and I couldn’t find one that worked as well as it did. Although I have used my wireless one for about a year and it has worked very well I wanted to simplify it, allow more flexibility, eliminate the lag and reduce the cost. Even though being wireless was a cool factor, I found that it actually didn’t add a huge amount of value si…

X-Carve Wireless Pendant

Fellow X-carvers, I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. I’ve used my share of simple interfaces including a USB numeric keyboard, wireless keyboard and USB Super Nintendo controller. Although they were simple, I felt it was too simple for what I wanted to be able to do. So I have created a wireless bluetooth pendant to perform the following features. Current: Jog all 3 axis at 4 level increments (1in, .1in, 1mm, .1mm) Run homing cycle and return to home at a…

[RobertCapraun]

Received my X-Pendant yesterday… WHY didn’t i get this thing sooner…???
It works right out of the box. I only had to change the Z-probe height value as I use the standard Inventables Z-probe. (thinking now that I need Charlie’s Triquetra Block)
I will likely use it mostly with UGCS Platform as I don’t do much with Easel and primarily design with Vectric software.
This is going to make things so much easier as I won’t have to rely on the keyboard when I’m manually jogging to the work piece.
THANKS SO MUCH to Jordan @MechanicalGoose