Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC on Ubuntu and BeagleBone

2013-10-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 10/27/13 18:41, Condit Alan wrote: I have grown accustomed to Ubuntu and find learning yet another GUI to be a pain. (Says he who has never compiled linuxCNC from scratch) How much trouble is it to compile LinuxCNC for BeagleBone on Ubuntu rather than Debian Wheezy? Compiling

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry Machine HAL Configuration

2013-10-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 10/25/13 01:48, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2013/10/25 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com I ran a big Shopbot gantry machine with LinuxCNC 2.5 and gantrykins. It successfully made tons of parts, but it was a little rough around the edges... I still am running gantrykins on my router, it

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry Machine HAL Configuration

2013-10-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 10/25/13 01:48, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2013/10/25 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com I ran a big Shopbot gantry machine with LinuxCNC 2.5 and gantrykins. It successfully made tons of parts, but it was a little rough around the edges... I still am running gantrykins on my router, it

Re: [Emc-users] Got my second BBB booted, sort of

2013-10-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
that I can figure out exactly what is causing the errors. Ouch. It really shouldn't be that hard to make the SD image. I'll review the scripts and add getting them running w/o net access as a future goal. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net

[Emc-users] Gantry Machine HAL Configuration

2013-10-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
the motors doesn't keep them perfectly synced. So, what's the best practice for setting up a gantry-style machine in HAL? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free

Re: [Emc-users] Got my second BBB booted, sort of

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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Re: [Emc-users] Got my second BBB booted, sort of

2013-10-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
at the ./setup_sdcard.sh source, it's just a bash script. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can

Re: [Emc-users] problem with BBB + BeBoPr+

2013-10-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black LinuxCNC .img

2013-10-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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Re: [Emc-users] Configuring LinuxCNC on BeagleBone Black

2013-10-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
if you have a good hostmot2 setup, it's fairly straight-forward to convert it to the BBB with the PRU driver. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] Configuring LinuxCNC on BeagleBone Black

2013-10-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
generator component match up well with the hm2 driver. So if you have a good hostmot2 setup, it's fairly straight-forward to convert it to the BBB with the PRU driver. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net

[Emc-users] BeagleBone Capes for LinuxCNC

2013-10-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a bunch of leg-work tracking down info. I have pulled this list from publicly visible content (mostly the LinuxCNC lists, but other web sites and blogs too), but if you are making one of these boards and don't want it listed, now would be the time to let me know. -- Charles Steinkuehler char

Re: [Emc-users] Is LinuxCNC right for me? Basic questions.

2013-10-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
to make it easier to work on. IIRC restoring the separation between UI and real-time is still part of that refactoring, but I wouldn't look for any usable code in the short term (unless you want to write it yourself). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net

Re: [Emc-users] BBB LinuxCNC.

2013-10-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
out on the next batch. Very cool! Please let us all know when we can actually place orders! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you

Re: [Emc-users] BBB LinuxCNC.

2013-10-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
/cnc-translator-for-beaglebone/ For many uses, you could just replace this with jumper wires to the BBB headers, or directly solder wires to a prototype cape, but neither of these is attactive or at all like an appliance application. Stay tuned... -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net

Re: [Emc-users] BBB LinuxCNC.

2013-10-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 10/10/2013 10:03 AM, Eric Keller wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: The BeagleBone stuff is still developing. You basically needed a cape that at the time didn't exist, a BBB to parallel-port cape like this one: http

Re: [Emc-users] BBB LinuxCNC.

2013-10-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
about ten+ orders to make the batch). I'd like to get $16.00 for a board (without cape ID eeprom) or $18.00 for a board (with eeprom, but unprogrammed) More information can be found here: http://.beaglecnc.com/ Thanks, Jeff www.xylotex.com -- Charles Steinkuehler char

Re: [Emc-users] Perceived issues with LinuxCNC.

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
cycles) would be nice too! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] OSADL Project: Real Time Linux Workshops - conference paper on RTAPI/unified build

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
with your presentation! -- Charles Steinkuehler On 10/08/13 15:08, Michael Haberler wrote: this year's OSADL conference: https://www.osadl.org/RTLWS-2013.rtlws-2013.0.html has an entry from LinuxCNC: https://www.osadl.org/?id=1752 the final paper is here: http://static.mah.priv.at

Re: [Emc-users] Is this feasible: BBB running LinuxCNC to Gecko G540 stepper driver

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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Re: [Emc-users] RAMPS adapter for Beaglebone Black.

2013-09-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
to the current MachineKit.net images? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Breakout board

2013-09-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
attached to the 'bone. Holler with any other questions! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training

Re: [Emc-users] Making a BBB interface cape - was BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
each pass through the servo thread). Feel free to write some squelch code to get rid of this if you want, but it's not really any different than the minor hunting that goes on with real servo motors and encoders when at rest, so I haven't worried about it. -- Charles Steinkuehler char

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
number Long Answer: I really need to make a blog page about pin numbering. There's some data in Brandon Heller's post about home/limit switches: http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/2013/07/adding-homelimit-switches.html I'll try to get something posted tonight... -- Charles Steinkuehler char

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 22

2013-09-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 9/7/2013 3:03 PM, Bob Weiss wrote: I had the same question(s) and this pretty much cleared it up. If you are able to read through the source code you can see exactly what's going on. drat I obviously need to obfuscate my code more... :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net

Re: [Emc-users] BBB Laptop Screens?

2013-09-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
doesn't have specs you can find online. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more

Re: [Emc-users] config files for Slic3r and Kisslicer to use with LinuxCNC on the Beaglebone BeBoPr

2013-09-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
for bumping the temperature a bit up or down). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-04 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 9/4/2013 11:01 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 09/04/2013 08:44 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 9/4/2013 10:29 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 09/02/2013 05:24 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: ... snip My blog page with the image download should have enough to get you going if you have some Linux

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-04 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 9/4/2013 10:29 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 09/02/2013 05:24 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: ... snip My blog page with the image download should have enough to get you going if you have some Linux experience and can figure out the device representing your SD card reader: http://bb

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-04 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
with the BBB. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master

Re: [Emc-users] lineardeltakins and 'World mode' problems

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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[Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
and let me know how it works for you. It moves motors for me, but I have made enough changes I'd like as much testing as possible. Thanks! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Image Available

2013-09-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 9/2/2013 7:14 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 09/02/2013 03:38 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I have a new version of the MachineKit image for running LinuxCNC on a BeagleBone available: Image: http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/p/machinekit_16.html Announcement: http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/2013

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 5

2013-09-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-build-candidate, to the kernel-build scripts, etc). I will hopefully get my delta 'bot built soon and I will be able to add a known-good configuration to test with. In the mean time, this is the place to ask for help. Good luck!! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit network access

2013-08-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a remote windows share, but I'm not sure if you will get point and click network GUI goodness, since I mostly deal with network shares at the command line or in /etc/fstab. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] Capeless BBB

2013-08-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
, both of which could easily handle the encoder input rate, but code would need to be written. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Get 100% visibility

Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC Forum

2013-08-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
. Between the three different captcha's on one page, it seemed like I always got at least one of them wrong. I probably wouldn't pass a Turing test either. :-/ -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
press the 'A' key (which doesn't work)? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
as it might sound. Yes, I'd be throwing away a lot of fancy gcode interpretation, but the slicing programs only output G1 (and sometimes G0) moves anyway, with the occasional G92 reset of the extruder axis to keep the numbers small. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on Beaglebone for a small mill Proxxon MF70

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
, but if everything else is working well the error is safe to ignore. Also, IIRC the latency should have been reported in the error message. If it was 25.xx, you're seeing the same issue I'm referring to here. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Emc-users] Thermocouple to LinuxCNC

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
the Linux SPI drivers, so there's probably something on his blog about getting it working to get you started...yep, here you go: http://hipstercircuits.com/enable-spi-with-device-tree-on-beaglebone-black-copy-paste/ -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
numbers default to zero the way HAL shared memory gets initialized, you have to explicitly set a pin number before the PRU actually tries to twiddle something. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on Beaglebone for a small mill Proxxon MF70

2013-08-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a monitor or LCD later if you choose, or use the HDMI interface if you get a 'Black. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Get 100% visibility into Java

Re: [Emc-users] BBB pwm in standalone HAL

2013-07-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
at the end. Very cool! Remember to send a pull request when you've got it working! I've missed the auto PID calibration for hot-ends. :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] Parallela board

2013-07-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
peripherals, other than what you design and put into the FPGA). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- See everything from the browser to the database

Re: [Emc-users] Parallela board

2013-07-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
+ cores is a lot better than one, but 64 cores isn't really a lot better than 2 to 4 cores. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- See everything from

Re: [Emc-users] BBB pwm in standalone HAL

2013-07-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
or the BeBoPr-Bridge configuration. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end

Re: [Emc-users] query: how long was your longes G-Code program ever?

2013-07-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
got several over 10 Meg and many files are routinely over 5 Meg. For reference, the woman gcode I printed in Wichita is 7.4M and apx 244,000 lines. I assume the files for real machining are significantly larger, but perhaps not. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Emc-users] query: how long was your longes G-Code program ever?

2013-07-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a collection of 1G VOB files instead of a single large video file. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [Emc-users] Code Preview (Was: how long was your longes G-Code program ever?)

2013-07-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
take 6-10 minutes or more), but it's much faster than without the magic comment. I need a faster 'Bone, or easy-to-use profiling tools! :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone LinuxCNC starterkit - Beaglebone Black

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Heller has been doing some work with this but I don't think he's gotten to M109/M190. Check pull requests on the github repo and my blog, where Brandon has started writing some posts: http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/ - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone LinuxCNC starterkit - Beaglebone Black

2013-07-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
. :-/ -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone LinuxCNC starterkit - Beaglebone Black

2013-07-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 7/11/2013 11:06 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 7/11/13 06:41 , Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I'll try this out in a day or two when I'm back home. I have had several people think the system was broken because the LEDs were not blinking...I'm guessing not very many people monitor

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone LinuxCNC starterkit - Beaglebone Black

2013-07-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
could be wrong? A also tried to start the board with the sd card inserted and i noticed that the sd card was rewritten with some default beagle board documentation. Regards Klemen From: Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net To: Klemen

Re: [Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2013-07-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 7/10/2013 1:28 PM, Eric Keller wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: The ultimate goal of all this is to make a delta-arm 3D printer and use kinematics in LinuxCNC for the tricky math bits that are hard to do on the AVR micro

Re: [Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2013-07-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
on the code and copyright notice. Maybe I should just write the kins. Please do! ...that way I won't have to! :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- See everything from the browser to the database

Re: [Emc-users] mail list over forums?

2013-07-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone LinuxCNC starterkit - Beaglebone Black

2013-07-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
starterkit work on BeagleBone Black? Can i use the BeagleBone ready to run sd to flash the BeagleBone Black? That image is dated. You should start with the SD image from here: http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/p/machinekit_16.html ...it works fine with the White or the Black. -- Charles

[Emc-users] Automatic Homing Procedure with LinuxCNC

2013-07-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
into the retracted position * The machine is homed and ready to use Question: How do I begin to hook in a homing procedure like this to LinuxCNC? - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird

Re: [Emc-users] Automatic Homing Procedure with LinuxCNC

2013-07-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/7/2013 1:10 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am getting close to being able to put together one of the delta style 3D printers, and I will need to put more thought into homing

Re: [Emc-users] Automatic Homing Procedure with LinuxCNC

2013-07-07 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/7/2013 3:08 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Did I miss the manual section on setting up probing? Is this sort of probing possible with LinuxCNC? Thanks Stephen and Andy! I _did_ miss that section of the manual/wiki...I was looking around

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
at 9:23 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: Adding emc-users to cc: since this might help other folks, and direct email to Troy is being bounced. I noticed in several of my configurations I have I/O pins being driven by both the bb_gpio module and the PRU

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-07-04 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
. There was a post somewhere about a kernel bug that would show itself if reads of the ADCs overlapped. More after the holiday. Thanks, Troy On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: On 6/30/2013 11:26 AM, Troy Jacobson wrote: Hi Charles, and all

Re: [Emc-users] Retrofit Candidate Advice

2013-07-01 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
/3892182813.html Yeah, not much of a scam if they don't tell you where to send your deposit to hold the machine! :) ...unless they're just harvesting e-mail addresses, but I gave up trying to keep mine secret ages ago. :-/ - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Emc-users] Retrofit Candidate Advice

2013-06-30 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Besides my 3D printing endeavors, I am involved with trying to get a hackerspace going here in Topeka. Recently a CNC mill that might make a good LinuxCNC retrofit candidate popped up on the local

Re: [Emc-users] More progress with by BBB

2013-06-30 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
or problems setting up a configuration. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHQyqgACgkQLywbqEHdNFxNzQCeM/YaQFG+f6IB8xrvUM1b7zYo racAoJBlSOV1J

Re: [Emc-users] Meeting on IRC - NOW!!!

2013-06-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
/lists/listinfo/emc-users - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHO4BkACgkQLywbqEHdNFx/zgCgkezvt7BCwYAGMkPSnILFQZv

Re: [Emc-users] Meeting on IRC - NOW!!!

2013-06-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
is not 9:00 AM EST, or did they seriously mess with daylight savings offsets again?!? :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [Emc-users] Meeting on IRC - OOPS

2013-06-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
will be at 16:00 GMT on the #linuxcnc-meet channel of irc.freenode.net. You can use your favorite IRC client, or if you don't do IRC on a regular basis, the freenode web client is working well for me: http://webchat.freenode.net/ #linuxcnc-meet irc.freenode.net 16:00 GMT - -- Charles Steinkuehler char

[Emc-users] PID Best Practices

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
some of the knobs. Thanks! - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHMRJEACgkQLywbqEHdNFyrHgCgsyuk4DSU6LvRNFl3MjvrOzVr

Re: [Emc-users] PID Best Practices

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
. Are you trying I gains that small? See, it depends on the input/output scaling and time constants. Some sytems end up w/ HUGE gains, others can be TINY. Just depends on the controlled system and any scalings it might have. Stephen On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Charles Steinkuehler

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black image not booting for me

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
port disabled. I'm also looking at mod'ing my BeBoPr to work with HDMI output as well, although that's a lot of pins to relocate. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

Re: [Emc-users] Brain-Dead LinuxCNC G-Code Interface?

2013-06-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
of linuxcnc, we'll be there to help. Yes, trying to get everyone to switch to the LinuxCNC control model will take time and may not ever happen. There can be a lot of inertia in the way people think something is supposed to be done. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Emc-users] Brain-Dead LinuxCNC G-Code Interface?

2013-06-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
glue HAL to PRU step-gen on an ARM, but could really use help with the top-level config stuff. :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[Emc-users] Brain-Dead LinuxCNC G-Code Interface?

2013-06-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
on a serial port or network socket for gcode commands, or is everyone expected to load gcode from files these days? Or am I making this way to hard and I should just run linuxcncrsh for the interface and do something like open /dev/ttyS0? - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Emc-users] Brain-Dead LinuxCNC G-Code Interface?

2013-06-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
this seems to be running the rsh interface and just sending gcodes one at a time as MDI commands. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [Emc-users] Brain-Dead LinuxCNC G-Code Interface?

2013-06-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
question I get from most 3D printer folks is how to make LinuxCNC drop in to this setup which was only necessary because of the extreme resource constraints...which is what I switched to LinuxCNC to get away from. sigh Anyway, that's why the 3D printer crowd is doing drip feed. - -- Charles

[Emc-users] Retrofit Candidate Advice

2013-06-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
/3892182813.html Can anyone advise if this looks like it would be a good candidate for conversion to LinuxCNC, and what I should watch out for if I actually go to inspect and/or buy it? Thanks! - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black image not booting for me

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
partition. The first partition should be a small FAT partition with a uEnv.txt file. Can you see that on an SD card reader in another system? What do you see on the serial console when trying to boot with the MachineKit image? - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black image not booting for me

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
? Are you unable to ssh into the 'Bone? Is there not a login prompt on the serial terminal? - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
if you've previously setup a halscope file. That way you should be able to see the initial conditions that lead to the runaway motors. Good luck! - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/18/2013 3:34 PM, Eric Keller wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: I forgot the most important part: Select the BeBoPr configuration and watch the pins twiddle as the PRU does step

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black, ready to run a large 3 axis mill?

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
years, the 'Bone isn't there yet. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG+7uAACgkQLywbqEHdNFz/XgCeKU8vVh7sTU5mKL4NLeGWHKZ6 4FUAoPB

Re: [Emc-users] filament feed, was Re: Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
/106079792142766516843/posts/K5FBQmwN19v - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG90JQACgkQLywbqEHdNFwc7wCgutctwrZ9uFS0F733SBr6x+I2 YFkAoPvh8

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 5:47 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 15 June 2013 19:47, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: I've played with the various interfaces for LinuxCNC on the BeagleBone (tunneling X display data to a remote system), and touchy

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
on his delta printer recently: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113691016379554689926/posts/f5HViPF3dZT https://plus.google.com/u/0/113691016379554689926/posts/jVovBhdELka ...we need to get these folks switched over to LinuxCNC! - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP

[Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
because I can't press the start button that isn't there). So do I need real hardware or am I missing some detail of the touchy sim setup that would give me some virtual buttons (maybe as a stand-alone pop-up window)? - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 2:37 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I can run the touchy simulation configuration, but I have not been able to get the loaded gcode to run (presumably because I can't

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
generating step pulses with decent timing, so running the stepper in velocity mode and closing a servo feedback loop is probably asking a bit much. :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Initial Release

2013-06-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/2013 10:26 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I'm going to hold off posting outside the LinuxCNC community for a bit to get a bit better out-of-box experience. But I'm not going to wait too long, and I'm not really the guy you would assign

[Emc-users] Why is LinuxCNC Great?

2013-06-13 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
, but I'm sure there's a lot of features I don't even know about. Help me out with some talking points! :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
right in and help out if you're good with LinuxCNC integration! - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net [1] So you want to make your own image files? Grab my modified version of Robert C Nelson's build scripts from github: https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/omap-image-builder Make sure

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
for hardware motion control, but it probably wouldn't take much to turn the PRU into an EPP controller and talk to something like a 7I43 using hostmot2. Hmm - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/2013 10:26 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: STEP 4: Each Shell == Now you just have to setup LinuxCNC and run it. Make sure you have X11 forwarding enabled, or have set the DISPLAY variable to point to an open X server

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
LinuxCNC in a good light. ...and thanks for the link to the manuals! I've been crawling through the integrator and HAL docs, but I somehow forgot about the users guide! - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
as usual, writes are cheap and reads are expensive. Note the latency issues disappear if you're using PRU direct inputs, but that restricts the I/O allocations quite a bit. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/2013 7:27 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 11 June 2013 16:26, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot bone_dtb This appears to only work under Precise+ (no u-boot for Lucid, it seems

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Licensing Questionaire

2013-06-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a formal organization would help move things forward. But I'm new here and don't have a good feel for the project history or personalities involved. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone + BeBoPr 3D Printing

2013-06-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/1/2013 7:20 PM, Ed Nisley wrote: On 06/01/2013 12:39 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I particularly like the acceleration control in LinuxCNC. It seems smoother than the Arduino code. At least on the Marlin firmware branch of the RepRap

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