Re: [Emc-developers] How closely do we need to adhere to the NIST standard?

. Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 9:04 AM andy pugh wrote: > > Apart from anything else, I am not sure that it is a standard. > > This is based on bug report #2956. Our current behaviour does not match the > NIST RS274 interpreter "report" from

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

based equipment, and the vendor for the windows variant went under, so the equipment was useless. Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Eye candy is important - Titan got a new German friend - want that reaction for a LinuxCNC controller

I would watch your demonstration of the Siemens control and I'm anxiously awaiting your implementation of a similar interface on linuxcnc. As long as the demonstration doesn't involve any screaming. Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 1:24 PM Feral Engineer wrote

Re: [Emc-developers] New Stuff

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:46 AM Kurt Jacobson wrote: > > I also think that jepler's Stretch ISO is ready for prime time and should > be put in the spot light as it deserves :) > Cheers, > Kurt > Has the issue that the Stretch ISO doesn't install without an internet connection been fixed? Eric

Re: [Emc-developers] Finest resolution of Lcnc

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > I am surprised about this. I am working as a meteorology application > engineer about 20 Years now, mostly in metal working industry. Niemand, I'm a part-time metrologist working in precision machining. I work in spindle

Re: [Emc-developers] Finest resolution of Lcnc

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > But if you speak about 0.1 µm it is useless to build a lathe on that > accuracy, as you will never be able to turn a part at that accuracy. Just a > few degrees temperature difference will destroy the repeatability. > The

Re: [Emc-developers] Finest resolution of Lcnc

I work with a machine that displays out to an angstrom iirc. It uses mm as the main units. That's a lot of digits. I don't think I would want to work in microns. I know people are trying to hold dimensions on the order of a nanometer with similar machines. Our machine isn't tuned quite that

Re: [Emc-developers] QTvcp 4/5 opinions wanted.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > So, I don't really begrudge a > minute to boot up. I can pump the lube handle and get a few > other things ready while Linux is booting. > Linux boots pretty fast from an SSD. We have an accurite machine from the '90s

Re: [Emc-developers] feedback in tp

feedback isn't handled in the TP, but it needs to know the current position so that it can plan where to go. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Jullian wrote: > Hi, > Recently i'm reading the code in emcmotcontroller() especially the TP. > There's always a doubt puzzling me

Re: [Emc-developers] sim gotchas in sim/axis/lathe

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I don't think it was quite all that encompassing before, Andy, and you are by pure common sense correct. So if I run in metric mode, I'll have to recall that F is in mm per min. That means a bunch of them. As in 15

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai build, sorta recent kernel

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.zawrote: Does that mean that linuxcnc should run on something better than 10.04 or am I reading this wrong. You can run linuxcnc on 12.04, that's what I am using

Re: [Emc-developers] More sig-figs in GUI's

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:17 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know if the request is from people running metric or imperial machines? 3 figures after the decimal point seems about right for metric, but i'd think 4 would be better for imperial. I think that both requests

Re: [Emc-developers] test

you might not see your own messages, so I'm posting a response On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Len Shelton l...@probotix.com wrote: testing again Len -- Android is increasing in popularity, but the open

Re: [Emc-developers] [DISCUSS] Proposal: Drop Hardy support

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote: IMHO, this becomes somewhat of an regrettable but no-brainer decision. unless we want to stop development of Linuxcnc... unless we have extra developers that will back port capabilities to 2.5... Chris M In

Re: [Emc-developers] experimental support for LinuxCNC on Precise with RTAI

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Schooner schoone...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Did anyone try this? I reported back direct to Seb, because there was an initial problem, which was resolved. I have Sebs 3.4.55-1-rtai kernel, plus my own 3.5.7-rtai kernel running on 12.04.2 using RTAI-3.9.1

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

doesn't it give you the chance to ignore that message? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: I want to install xenomai and linuxcnc on 12.04 and get the error below when doing apt-get update after adding the packages to /etc/apt/sources.list (at this link:

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai BB kernels : RT-PREEMPT opportunity arising (was linux-rt-users Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] 3.8.13-rt14)

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: now if somebody went around and outlined an RTAPI patch to pass the actual invocation time to RT threads as discussed in Wichita, we could go ahead and timebase-correct some of the code which relies on the assumed

Re: [Emc-developers] discuss: packaging HAL separately

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:26 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: Once you have Comedi support and a graphical net builder, you are very close to having an open-source LabView... Hush your mouth. Actually, it would be a useable alternative that isn't missing the zoom feature

Re: [Emc-developers] Discuss: Andy's tooltable work

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: fair enough. That would be extreme (the bit equivalent of the limbo -- how small can you go). As such I had not seriously thought that it would be designed to work with the Arduino, but it was an amusing image. BTW, I think the

Re: [Emc-developers] Discuss: Andy's tooltable work

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:48 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: inappropriate? Who's to judge appropriateness? If it works as intended then it works on that platform. I might consider it inappropriate if ... As you demonstrate, everyone feels qualified to judge appropriateness. Arduinos are

Re: [Emc-developers] Something else to possibly play with in Wichita.

is it possible for non-witchita attendees to get one of these boards? On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:16 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/sVUHBjKMHtNWN3LdpZOEj9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

Re: [Emc-developers] Something else to possibly play with in Wichita.

I'm in the U.S. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:05 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2013 11:46, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote: is it possible for non-witchita attendees to get one of these boards? Which continent are you on? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own

Re: [Emc-developers] Finally, A Proposal

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote: Over the last few days I've been writing stuff here and reading other people's stuff. tl;dr, all of it anyway. Didn't you put together a list of files with non-conforming licenses recently? If there is such a list and we

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAPI is broken

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Lars Segerlund lars.segerl...@gmail.com wrote: A short note, it seems we get pagefaults in rt context, latency-test says so. is this because we are using shared memory? Been a while since I looked under the hood.

Re: [Emc-developers] Some initial BBB GPIO code

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Ian McMahon imcma...@prototechnical.comwrote: I started a repository of test code here: https://bitbucket.org/imcmahon/beagleboneblack-gpio_driver Is there a concise discussion somewhere of how to get a development system for linuxcnc running for BBB?

Re: [Emc-developers] New BeagleBone

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.comwrote: It's curious how the current microelectronic economy works. First, they get under the price of the BeagleBoard by nearly 40 percent by throwing out features to create the BeagleBone. Then they add back features to the

Re: [Emc-developers] mkinitrd missing?

I think it uses a variant of google.com On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So what is Lucid using in place of mkinitrd? Thanks Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: [Emc-developers] Implementation of LCNC Copyright and licensing terms

the history probably would be good, but what's important is coming up with guidance for contributions in the future. I think most people just want to help and don't really care about any of these issues. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Kent Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Matt. Don't

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.atwrote: Would this then be the 'lazy lawyer' requirement? - licenses published with LinuxCNC must be compatible with all dependent packages 'prima facie', that is without studying further license arrangements not specifically

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

wouldn't de-Cornerizing have to happen regardless? He did contribute quite a bit before the schism. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:25:55PM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: The hal and rtapi commits need study but I feel

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: If one assumes this is only one of many obstacles that will turn out to make it impractical or impossible to ever relicense at all, then it's silly to worry about de-Cornerizing. Yes, that's a good point. Not sure how to

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:43 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: it runs a bit hotter.. That's what they were saying on the xenomai list. I guess if you aren't running it all the time on an inadequate power supply it should be ok. I assume this is what the busy loop that has been

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.atwrote: the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly It bugs me that in these days of high performance and energy aware computers that the hlt command apparently doesn't work properly on a lot of processors. This affects

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 February 2013 13:25, John Morris j...@zultron.com wrote: Please ask questions about anything still unclear, and I promise a short answer. This seems to be close to (or possibly already there) a situation where

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Now, is anyone working on a 'breakout' board? Cheers, Gene -- See my previous email in this thread. In general, search for beaglebone capes on your favorite search engine. The most promising cape is the bebopr for

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote:Actually, the BeagleBone is $89. I'm not sure what developer kit Gene it referring to. There is a $200 kit that comes with a touchscreen/LCD, and a variety of $1000 kits available for more targeted

Re: [Emc-developers] new RTOS status

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.atwrote: I have done no further work on the Raspberry, I do not consider that platform particularly useful to base work on. Is there any point to looking at the Beagleboard any further? Eric

Re: [Emc-developers] new RTOS status

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: The BeagleBoard, specifically, is somewhat obsolete, but the BeagleBone seems to be the most well supported variant. It also has a LOT more GPIO brought out. To be precise, I have a BeagleboardXM, which seems to be

Re: [Emc-developers] round #4: new i386 xenomai kernel packages available

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: I rebuilt the x86 3.2.21/xenomai kernel debian packages with a configuration based on the Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-35-generic-pae kernel and just merged in the Xenomai-specific options; the previous kernels had much of the

Re: [Emc-developers] PCI drivers: roundup of leftovers: hal_gn, hal_motenc, hal_vti, opto_ac5, pci_8255

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: You can buy new MBs (Ivy bridge etc) with ISA if you dont mind paying a premium. I think one of the first PC EMC I/O cards was the ISA Servo To Go 8 axis card (Still Available!) I think the last volume MBs with ISA

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: configure support for new RT options

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: On that note, I think it might also be good to be able to separate out building the GUI applications from the guts of LinuxCNC. --snip-- Seems like I should be able to build use LinuxCNC even if I

Re: [Emc-developers] Raspberry Pi aupercomputer

I tried to get to the element 14 support page and they want me to register just to see any documents. It requires such a strong password that I'm not going to remember it. I really don't think that's going to stop the spammers. The spammers I see on my forum moderation duties have incredibly

Re: [Emc-developers] Raspberry Pi aupercomputer

have one on order, hopefully I can figure out how to get it to run without buying the sd card. I have been programming my own SD cards for the BeagleboardXM, figured I'd do something similar for this On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote: I tried to get

Re: [Emc-developers] Raspberry Pi aupercomputer

September 2012 17:47:28 Eric Keller wrote: I have been programming my own SD cards for the BeagleboardXM, figured I'd do something similar for this RPi is simple for available images. Download a image file from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads or have a look to: http://elinux.org

Re: [Emc-developers] Raspberry Pi running EMC ???

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.comwrote: I will kick in the benchmarks I run on my BeagleBoardXM and ASUS AT5NM10-I while I wait. Have you set up a BeagleboardXM with a rt-preempt kernel? I have been using a stock kernel on our BeagleboardXM's, I'm a

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:17 AM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: Fair enough. I thought the current discussion concerned moving away from autoconf and friends. Personally I have a lot more experience and comfort with autoconf, automake, and libtools. I do too, at least they tell you what is

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: Attila Licensing: Re: LinuxCNC3, was: The Last Public Domain Version

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: Would you prefer we discuss other licenses such as MIT, BSD, CC? Unfortunately, I think we should be as open as possible with our licensing and purist on what we allow in the codebase. We should decide on a license and not allow code

Re: [Emc-developers] [ emc-Feature Requests-3558468 ] Tapping for floating holder and no spindle encoder

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: And, I have another one of my c programs that writes the code for that. It would have to be adapted for the particular gear ratios in your tapping head. I take it that this is for a procunier style tapping head.

Re: [Emc-developers] contributed programs to create G-code ?

I don't know that anyone answered you, but I don't think this is a problem. However, it does seem that some less restrictive license than copyright would be better if you can bring yourself to do that. Eric On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Just like we

Re: [Emc-developers] modbus discussion was: future plannig

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: a restart takes an hour or more after shutdown? Out of curiosity, what machine might that be, and why so long? We have a precision lathe that refused to make parts until it had been under pressure for more than 15 minutes. This

Re: [Emc-developers] modbus discussion was: future plannig

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: I could see thermal being an issue if you had coolant running through the machine to stabilize the temperature of all the pieces parts It has oil hydrostatic ways and if you don't let the oil warm up it will be change some critical

Re: [Emc-developers] future plannig was: LinuxCNC (EMC2) with RCS

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: Hi all, As a longtime user(1) I'm going to butt in here. My main worry is that this will break most of the GUI's. I use TkEmc and Mini most of the time. As a user I'm not going to complain as long as things just work. I hate

Re: [Emc-developers] future plannig was: LinuxCNC (EMC2) with RCS

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: folks, I guess you are hunting ghosts. I am not talking about a massive influx of changes to the existing LinuxCNC code base, and my god, X will break. I wasn't either, maybe I shouldn't have started out about the

Re: [Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

Have you tried isolcpu for the real-time? RTAI will reduce system responsiveness, but not by much if no real-time software is running. You should try booting into a generic kernel and seeing if the kmail problem persists. If you don't have a generic kernel, it's rather easy to build one with

Re: [Emc-developers] Cannot unhome while moving message ?

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Yes, I remembered there was some discussion of this, couldn't remember quite how far back. So, the situation is : if not homed, and moving, and you get an E-stop, it produces the message. If not homed, but not

Re: [Emc-developers] FSMLabs Showcases Breakthrough Fast Real-time Linux for AMD Dual-Core Processors... -- re BOSTON, Embedded Systems Conference, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ --

was running java code from a cdrom. I always wondered if working over the kernel a little might help some, but that's hard to beat Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC, RTAI, and Ubuntu long term support releases

activities, but the control performance is great. The Accurite control we have at work runs on a 486 (can see that as it is booting), and it is perfectly usable. Looking at all the nonsense that is running on a modern operating system, it's amazing you can get any performance at all out of them Eric

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC, RTAI, and Ubuntu long term support releases

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.comwrote: Gentle persons: The recent email discussions about ARM-based cpus on the one hand and about progress with the PREEMPT_RT patch on the other got me to wondering about RTAI and where it is going. Generally, the

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC, RTAI, and Ubuntu long term support releases

The advantage of long term support from Centos doesn't really help linuxCNC too much, because they will be updating the kernel too. So even though it may be an old kernel version, it will have security fixes in it that will make any RTAI patches fail. The thing that's driving me nuts at work is