Today Granite Devices turns 11 years! Our Granite team thank all our community members for making this journey so awesome! Be sure not to miss miss a special announcement written exclusively on our Twitter channel: https://twitter.com/GraniteDevices.
Curious what’s going inside the embedded motor drive sector? Or do you have new needs for custom or special drives?
Welcome to get answers to both at SPS IPC DRIVES exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, at 28 – 30 November. We are pleased to shake hands with you you at booth 3A-310 in Hall 3A.
At this fair, we are demonstrating some of our latest servo motor control inventions, and custom solutions that haven’t been displayed in public before. At a glance, you will see:
- Latest IONI drive features & under development features, real demo
- All new ATOMI multi-axis single board drive, real demo
- Soon-to-be-released EtherCAT bridge, real demo
- Guide how to implement multiaxis interpolated motion with minimal hardware, real demo
Have some thoughts you’d like to share with us? We’re open for deeper discussions on the topic of your choice. To make meeting most convenient for you, let us know your arrival time and we’ll allocate private meeting time for you at our booth. To arrange meeting, just reply to this email or fill the meeting form online.
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Curious to learn what’s inside in the top-tier servo drives? Want to put your ideas in motion? Are you a natural born microcontroller hacker suited for the job?
In other words, we’re now hiring the best of the best hacker available to take a major role in servo drive firmware development. If your socks started spinning already, don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance and drop us your CV now!
We’re pleased to invite you to meet us at the world famous automation & robotics exhibition – SPS IPC Drives! The exhibition is worth visiting to see glimpses from the future.
SPS IPC Drives is held in Nurember, Germany on 28. – 30.11.2017. Granite Devices booth location is 3A-310. Herzlich Willkomen!
Granite Devices has opened an community forum to spark discussion about all motor control related topics, such as robotics, simulation and, of course, servo drives. The forum is also a meeting place to ask from us and share your ideas.
Join us at community.granitedevices.com!
Tampere, Finland – March, 30th, 2016, A Finnish Company, Granite Devices, has released a new kind of Direct Drive Force Feedback Controller for professional class motorsport simulator market.
Today’s high-end professional force feedback wheel simulators use direct drive technology. Direct drive means that the simulator steering wheel is directly attached to an electric motor’s shaft without any gears or belt transmission. With direct drive wheel, the driver can sense even tiniest bit of details from the road, such as gravel and temperature changes. In addition to direct drive technology, one major difference versus a commercial wheel is the extended range of wheel torque. SimuCUBE systems typically yield torque of 20 Nm while typical consumer products are limited to torque of 3-8 Nm. Extended wheel torque increases the realism to a level comparable to a real race car. Today’s market does not completely lack a product like SimuCUBE, however the existing products may lack in simplicity and are only available to high paying customers.
The purpose of developing the SimuCUBE is the simplification of the simulator construction and improvement of the simulation realism by the means of adding artificial physics effects such as wheel inertia and friction. In addition to wheel control, SimuCUBE also features input ports for pedals, shifters and buttons. By utilizing modern technologies and smart construction, Granite Devices has been able to push everything into a significantly lower price class compared to earlier and existing solutions. “Such technologies could make professional grade simulators finally affordable also to a casual hobbyists”, says Tero Kontkanen, the leader of the SimuCUBE team.
SimuCUBE product will be available for OEM & DIY customers from June 2016. The retail price of the controller board is 169€ excluding the other parts necessary for a working simulator system.
All new SimuCUBE force feedback controller board has been made available through Indiegogo today! Go get yours at igg.me/at/simucube.
We’re proud to release the details of the upcoming force feedback simulator controller – SimuCUBE! This device will change the way force feedback systems are built and operated. For more info, see granitedevices.com/simucube.
To celebrate the launch of the all new main web site, we are running a limited time discount campaign on the web shop. Use coupon code RELAUNCH to get 15% off from Argon and Ioni servo drives. The coupon is valid until 8th of Feb 2016.
Welcome to the all new main web site of Granite Devices! We hope you find it clearer and more usable than the previous site. If you find an error, or lack of information, please drop us a message. The old site can be found at granitedevices.com/oldsite.