We had a great meeting discussing motor control of all types. Thanks to all who attended.

Many people offered information on websites and products they have used. I wanted to capture some of them here in case anyone wants to check into them:

Motor drivers for hobby servos

• phidgets.com
• geckodrive.com
• seetron.com/ssc.htm (serial control of 8 hobby servos)
• parallax (serial controller that Michael used in his demo)
• servocity (good source for hobby servos and accessories)
• US Digital (optical rotary encoders)

National Instruments Tools

• Advanced Motion Using NI Compact RIO (video)
• Discover Virtual Prototyping with LabVIEW and SolidWorks (video)
• LabVIEW / NI support for Linux

Other Items

• Free LabVIEW training course
• Wine (run Windows applications under Linux)
• Old version of LabVIEW running under Linux with Wine (maybe?)
• Countertop template digitizer that I showed (with the really high count encoder)
• Museum animatronic project that I spoke about, which used hobby servos (that wore out way to quickly!)
• More Seneca5 projects (shameless plug I know, but some of them are very cool projects)

Any additions? Comment them here. This group works best when we share ideas!