Do I win the record for the slowest retrofit? I pulled out the Orac guts in 2007 and today I got it running

I'm interested to hear whether you got the ATC working with Mach. I'm currently upgrading an Orac with ATC, so I'll be getting on to the tool changer soon. I imagined using a PIC to control it, but I'm open to other ideas, especially easier ones...

er, seems like I forgot to reduce the image sizes- now I have to scroll horizontally on my 17" laptop to read the thread... Sorry about that!

Well, I got a chance to open the Orac up this week, and did a sketch of the wiring before starting to take bits out. I was a bit confused at first at the wiring of the emergency stop switch and what I thought were homing switches- seems a bit odd that these are connected together, and to the main po...

Last year I bought an Orac and a Triac off eBay with the intention of upgrading to modern controls. I have decided to go the mach3 route, re-using anything I can in the machines. They both have ATCs. I've been checking out this forum, and it looks like all the info I need is here, so I thought I'd k...