Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/12/2013 10:47 PM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: Jon, It has what it calls a serial port, which in fact goes to a USB. There are then some drivers (Windows only) which apparently allow communicating with it as a serial device. OK, the Beagle Board has a real serial port, driven via some GPIO

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-12 Thread Michael Haberler
Hi Eric, Am 12.01.2013 um 05:49 schrieb Eric H. Johnson: Hi all, This is really a response to the LinuxCNC for DIY 3D Printing thread without hijacking that thread. After seeing the success of a few other people in getting lcnc running on an Arm / Beaglebone, I thought I would take a

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-12 Thread Anders Wallin
After seeing the success of a few other people in getting lcnc running on an Arm / Beaglebone, I thought I would take a shot at doing the same on the Olinuxino, with the intent of driving a 3D printer. I found the Olinuxino attractive because it has 512MB RAM and a 1Ghz processor and 3 I2C

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-12 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/11/2013 10:49 PM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: The board in fact just arrived today. Android built into the onboard NAND booted first time. While waiting for the board to arrive, I also built a custom kernel and a debian image and loaded that to a 4GB SD card. That, unfortunately was an

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/12/2013 9:05 AM, Anders Wallin wrote: After seeing the success of a few other people in getting lcnc running on an Arm / Beaglebone, I thought I would take a shot at doing the same on the Olinuxino, with the intent of driving a 3D printer. I

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-12 Thread Adrian Carter
Re getting the Olimex screen working... it looks like its just a vanilla LVDS panel.. so you just need one of the many LVDS-HDMI driver boards from ebay and the like.. basically look around and you'll find a few people on sites selling LVDS-HDMI controller boards or converters... basically you

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on the Olinuxino

2013-01-12 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Jon, It has what it calls a serial port, which in fact goes to a USB. There are then some drivers (Windows only) which apparently allow communicating with it as a serial device. Something is not working in my setup for these drivers. I got the drivers installed, and three external drives show up