On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 07:17:32 -0500, you wrote:
Leave it to Windoze to turn off important hardware. About the only time
that should apply is on a laptop when not plugged in or docked. If that's
a default setting,
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 21:19:06 -0500, you wrote:
I've had a number of problems when plugging into industrial devices that
have a USB interface. The lack of isolation is oftentimes a problem.
Othertimes my laptop will confuse the industrial device with another
common USB device like a stick
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote:
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:15:29 +0100, you wrote:
When I've learned something about hardware interfaces and reliability in
the past two or three years then it is to stay as far away from USB as
possible whenever
Hi Steve, hi everyone!
On 03/02/2014 12:41 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2014
18:15:29 +0100, you wrote:
When I've learned something about hardware interfaces and reliability
in the past two or three years then it is to stay as far away from USB
as possible whenever something else
I agree!
And this is why USB has issues! :-(
Dave
On 3/2/2014 8:37 AM, Philipp Burch wrote:
Hi Steve, hi everyone!
On 03/02/2014 12:41 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2014
18:15:29 +0100, you wrote:
When I've learned something about hardware interfaces and reliability
in the
On 3/2/2014 3:20 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 21:19:06 -0500, you wrote:
I've had a number of problems when plugging into industrial devices that
have a USB interface. The lack of isolation is oftentimes a problem.
Othertimes my laptop will confuse the industrial device
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 07:17:32 -0500, you wrote:
Leave it to Windoze to turn off important hardware. About the only time
that should apply is on a laptop when not plugged in or docked. If that's
a default setting, that's just stupid.
Yup
How do they implement wake-on-lan if they power down the
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:31:43 -0800, you wrote:
On 02/28/2014 04:10 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
... snip
There is virtually no limits to program lengths since tape died so
writing subs isn't necessary to save space and serves no other purpose
other than living in the 80's (or earlier :)
Steve
On 2/28/2014 12:24 PM, Eric Keller wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:41 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for this viewpoint, actually.
If G-code simply moved axes in absolute machine space and everything else
was done in the pre-processor
On 2/28/2014 7:20 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:47:45 -0500, you wrote:
The original Smooth Stepper also suffered from USB issues which seemed
to be related to grounding or isolation issues??
It had a design problem on the board with a built in ground loop. It
caused the
On 3/1/2014 4:52 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:31:43 -0800, you wrote:
On 02/28/2014 04:10 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
... snip
There is virtually no limits to program lengths since tape died so
writing subs isn't necessary to save space and serves no other purpose
other
Hi all!
- Original message -
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:47:45 -0500, you wrote:
The original Smooth Stepper also suffered from USB issues which seemed
to be related to grounding or isolation issues??
It had a design problem on the board with a built in ground loop. It
caused the
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 11:38:38 -0500, you wrote:
What control are you running your router with? It is not LinuxCNC or
Mach3, correct?
Are you happy with it?
Using an EdingCNC CPU5B, it works very well - on USB or ethernet ;)
Steve Blackmore
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On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:15:29 +0100, you wrote:
When I've learned something about hardware interfaces and reliability in the
past two or three years then it is to stay as far away from USB as possible
whenever something else than a classical HID (Mouse, keyboard, flash drive,
etc.) should be
I've had a number of problems when plugging into industrial devices that
have a USB interface. The lack of isolation is oftentimes a problem.
Othertimes my laptop will confuse the industrial device with another
common USB device like a stick drive, even if the driver for the
industrial device
Am 28.02.2014 um 03:35 schrieb John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com:
Ok - can anyone remind me *why* the Printrboard is not a good thing to
interface with LinuxCNC?
looks like a neat I/O octopus
I had a short (ie non-exhaustive) look at the firmware for this board
I have the
correction:
Am 28.02.2014 um 09:10 schrieb Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at:
I could imagine a firmware solution which does the link between LinuxCNC and
this board over SPI, like Gemi's picnc outboard - that would likely work a
lot better
I dont think an SPI-based firmware solution for
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK; now with USB input)
Related: What commands are sent over the USB
Am 28.02.2014 um 14:19 schrieb John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com:
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc
2014-02-28 15:19 GMT+02:00 John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com:
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade
On 2/28/2014 7:19 AM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK; now
On 28 February 2014 13:36, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK; now with USB input)
I have no idea about that API uses over USB, but I'd be curious
There is
Am 28.02.2014 um 14:39 schrieb Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com:
2014-02-28 15:19 GMT+02:00 John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com:
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can
Sightly hijacking my own thread,
In doing more reading, I found the following text of interest:
(ref: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Grbl)
It accepts standards-compliant G-code and has been tested with the output
of several CAM tools with no problems. Arcs, circles and helical motion
Andy;
There is a clue on page 26 here:
http://www.warp9td.com/documentation/SmoothStepperUserManualV1.0.pdf
Funny!
:-) John.
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Mach3 exposes a circular buffer of time - position movement data via the
Mach3 plug in interface.
There used to be some sample code on the Mach3 support website.
If you can't find it, I have it, and then some.
I did a motion plug in for Mach3 several years ago.
Using the buffered data, it is
)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Printrboard and LinuxCNC
On 28 February 2014 13:36, Michael Haberler
mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB
cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK;
now with USB input)
I have
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Printrboard and LinuxCNC
On 28 February 2014 13:36, Michael Haberler
mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB
cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK;
now
[mailto:linuxcncro...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 10:48 AM
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Printrboard and LinuxCNC
The original Smooth Stepper also suffered from USB issues
which seemed
to be related to grounding or isolation issues??
Steve probably
On Friday 28 February 2014 11:12:50 John Alexander Stewart did opine:
Sightly hijacking my own thread,
In doing more reading, I found the following text of interest:
(ref: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Grbl)
It accepts standards-compliant G-code and has been tested with the
On 28 February 2014 14:27, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.comwrote:
ut no support for tool offsets, functions or variables
as these are apocryphal and fell into disuse after humans left G-code
authoring to machines some time in the 80s.
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for
On 02/28/2014 07:19 AM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
Michael;
Ah - grbl-like input. Makes sense, and I can see how it would not work so
well for LinuxCNC.
The question, then, is how come Mach3 can have USB cabling, but LinuxCNC
can't? (see the KX* mills from Arc Eurotrade in the UK; now
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:41 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for this viewpoint, actually.
If G-code simply moved axes in absolute machine space and everything else
was done in the pre-processor then thing would be a great deal simpler.
I'm
2014-02-28 16:25 GMT+02:00 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at:
What needs to be done, and Yishin did, is push down the syncing operation
from the tp into the segment execution level, so it can be handled on such
an 'outboard'.
Thanks for the clarification!
So do I understand correctly that
Am 28.02.2014 um 19:01 schrieb Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com:
2014-02-28 16:25 GMT+02:00 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at:
What needs to be done, and Yishin did, is push down the syncing operation
from the tp into the segment execution level, so it can be handled on such
an
Andy;
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for this viewpoint, actually.
If G-code simply moved axes in absolute machine space and everything else
was done in the pre-processor then thing would be a great deal simpler.
I wonder what will happen when they get *two* extruders going
On 2/28/2014 12:49 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
Andy;
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for this viewpoint, actually.
If G-code simply moved axes in absolute machine space and everything else
was done in the pre-processor then thing would be a great deal simpler.
I wonder
On Friday 28 February 2014 15:55:57 Charles Steinkuehler did opine:
On 2/28/2014 12:49 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
Andy;
I could be persuaded to have some sympathy for this viewpoint,
actually.
If G-code simply moved axes in absolute machine space and everything
else was
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:21:49 -0500, you wrote:
IMO machine generated code CAN be useful, if you have memory resources
enough to handle it. But I often carve my own code, making liberal use of
subroutines. I've got one short proggy, maybe 90 LOC, that takes 2 days to
run.
I have yet to
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:47:45 -0500, you wrote:
The original Smooth Stepper also suffered from USB issues which seemed
to be related to grounding or isolation issues??
It had a design problem on the board with a built in ground loop. It
caused the USB to loose the link frequently for some. Twas
On 02/28/2014 04:10 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote:
... snip
There is virtually no limits to program lengths since tape died so
writing subs isn't necessary to save space and serves no other purpose
other than living in the 80's (or earlier :)
Steve Blackmore
I tend to agree. I have the loops in
On Friday 28 February 2014 19:50:11 Steve Blackmore did opine:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:21:49 -0500, you wrote:
IMO machine generated code CAN be useful, if you have memory resources
enough to handle it. But I often carve my own code, making liberal use
of subroutines. I've got one short
Ok - can anyone remind me *why* the Printrboard is not a good thing to
interface with LinuxCNC?
Background - I have a Printrbot Simple kit that I'm taking away on an
Internet-free weekend, to install. So, I have been installing the software
for slicing and dicing, and for controlling this board.
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