Technology|May 31, 2011 5:33 am

CNC mill and Sixaxis controller make beautiful DIY music together (video)

Have we ever suspicion to yourself, “my CNC indent is flattering cool, though we unequivocally wish to have it some-more awesomer”? Well, first, “awesomer” all isn’t word, as well as second, have we got a penetrate for you! A reader wrote in to a DIY heart Adafruit to uncover off his CNC being operated by a PS3 Sixaxis controller — mimicking facilities found upon high-end machines that concede we to trigger jobs from a stretch as well as manually carry out a mill. Best of all, it’s a flattering elementary mod that uses a module called QtsixA to map a gamepad as a set of keys as well as mouse, permitting we to correlate with a Linux box using EMC2, that is used for determining a mill, lathe, plasma torch, or a series of alternative fun as well as dangerous tools. Check out a video after a break.

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