LxCVision Handbox

The aim of this projekt is to create a remote pendant for jogging and setup, from scratch.
This is part of the LxCVision? projekt, the overal aim of witch is to create a new touch gui and provide a well documented way to controll Mill Turn and EDM machines using the EtherCAT bus.
Althoug it is a part of the LxCvision projekt the handbox can bee used with any LinuxCNC machine with a spare ethernet port.

The LxCVision Handbox can bee build with simple of the shelf componants and features a 3,5" touchscreen, 8 buttons and a Joggweel (quadrature encoder).
A arduino due is used as its brains and a 3,5" Nextion Touchscreen enables the user to easely coustomize the user interface.

Bill of materials:

• 1 Arduino Due (The Due or a similar arduino compatible board with an ARM processor is needed becaus of the reaction speed required from a CNC pendant)

• 1 Nextion 3,5" Touch display (Any Nextion Display from the Enhanced or Intelligent Series can be used)

• 1 EasyCAT shield for the Arduino