{"id":1403,"date":"2011-06-18T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-06-18T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T12:45:23","slug":"openmoco-for-motion-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/openmoco-for-motion-control\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenMoCo for motion control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"OpenMoCo\" width=\"596\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco1.png 596w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco1-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/\">OpenMoCo<\/a> is short for &#8220;Open Motion Control&#8221;. The community is focussed on building rigs for moving cameras.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco4.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"OpenMoCo\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco4.png 600w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco4-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They have great, detailed, accessible articles on different topics including <a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/node\/243\">gearing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/node\/179\">motors<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/node\/11\">their own software and hardware<\/a>. They also list several good <a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/node\/221\">hardware sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is maybe not a replacement for pipette micromanipulators. However, for stages, microscope platforms, and motorized mechanisms in behavior rigs, this could be a great resource for a custom made solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The have <a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/forum\">forums<\/a> too. It&#8217;s not the most active community, but it seems to have a steady pace. And perhaps if they broadened their scope a bit, there would be an increase in activity. The infrastructure itself seems very general. Here&#8217;s a diagram:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco31.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"OpenMoCo\" width=\"501\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco31.png 501w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/openmoco31-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/06\/open-source-photo-motion-control-clearinghouse.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmoco.org\/\">OpenMoCo<\/a> is short for &#8220;Open Motion Control&#8221;. The community is focussed on building rigs for moving cameras.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/openmoco-for-motion-control\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,31,33],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-construction","tag-equipment","tag-openness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}