Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit and T-Rex S-1224

[schoone...@btinternet.com]

Although it seems like advertising for the 'opposition', it is 'horses for courses' and in the first instance you would probably be best to use the Linuxcnc DVD based distro installed on an x86 computer. It will give you a complete install 'out of the box' plus a rtai kernel, which is likely to work the best when software stepping on the parallel port and that method is the simplest for someone not conversant with it. If you are at a company, you should have a few computers to try and be able to get one with decent latency to use as the controller. John Thornton on their forum has a conversion script which should give a reasonable config, based upon a Mach 3 xml file. That should get you up and running. If you decide later to build in the controller, then obviously a BBB or similar comes into its own due to its size and Machinekit runs on that, whereas Linuxcnc does not (easily at least). If you later go to a FPGA card, with hardware stepping, encoders etc, then all options are open. regards On 09/07/16 13:24, vitor.agu...@m-iti.org wrote: Ok. I gonna try and see how it works. Thanks for your time On Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 1:19:37 PM UTC+1, Schooner wrote: Yes, you could use Machinekit to control it. It appears to be a stepper controlled gantry router and the spec says it can be controlled by Mach or Linuxcnc. http://www.cnc-step.co.za/t-rex-1224-cnc-gantry-router There are no configs available for it, for Machinekit or Linuxcnc, that I can find, so you will probably have to select the Mach config that is written for it and use that info to write your own. If you decide to take it on, my advice, do it on a x86 computer using the parallel port, at least initially. Going for a palm sized SoC ARM board just adds several layers of unnecessary complexity. regards On 09/07/16 12:29, vitor....@m-iti.org wrote: Hi Anyone knows if i can use machinekit to control a T-Rex S-1224?? Thanks for the time Vitor Aguiar -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.