Hi Lester, I have two different displays for my Beagles. Three if you count the one that I bought for the 3D printer Replicape but doesn't have good sensitivity near the edges so it's pretty well useless. As a result I'm not that fond of touch screens. Just too dangerous for any operations that could break something.
If, and it's a big if, I were to do something with a Beagle, first I'd have to work out how to use the PRUs for the spindle which apparently isn't supported in MachineKit yet. Not even 1PPR. I think I'd look more along the lines of the Shunatec 550 DRO which has extra capabilities (have two here not used). Perhaps via the SPI interface or serial interface from the Beagle it would be possible to create the equivalent of a DRO with CNC capabilities. The DRO information is already there. It just requires a screen interface that present position information. Perhaps some soft keys for non-realtime selections like mm/inch, FCN, Tool #. Etc. A matrix of hard keys and an MPG plus ESTOP has a hand held control. So it's only user interface that needs changing. It could still pull in files and run G-Code. But primarily to power feed an axis from BEGIN to END at n ipm with depth of cut z. The Begin End locations are pairs of XYZ. This is equivalent to jog X 0.1 or 1.0 or 10.0. But that's just a jog from current position in direction XBEGIN to position XEND. I suspect if I want this I'll end up programming again. (sigh) John > -----Original Message----- > From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] > Sent: October-08-17 2:17 AM > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black > > On 08/10/17 02:45, John Dammeyer wrote: > > The Machine Kit forums give the impression that for any LinuxCNC type > questions these forums are the place to ask and only Machine Kit specifics are > addressed on those forums. All very confusing. I was hoping there were > people on this forum who had experience with both. And maybe even Mach3/4 > > I'm still looking at the options for a super ELS ;) > Keeping the User Interface as a separate module, just what is the > difference between using BeagleBone Black as the motion control and one > of the other motion control options? Using something like the 13" tablet > I've just picked up as the graphics interface ... and the ELS keyboard > as a pendent ... > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
