I've been plugging along on my home project of using MPCNC (mostly printed cnc on a cramps boards) and not quite at the end of the tunnel but I'm getting there.
The makerspace I belong to (workshop88) is starting up a CNC build club and we have a line on a nice small cnc that has drivers, encoders but is missing a controller. A member of our club was just telling us how he he visited the Dallas maker space and have this really cool RFID system where only members who are trained can operate the cnc equipment. All members have a RFID fob that allows them access to the space and enables machines for them if they have proper training. I plan to use machinekit for our cnc mill at the space. I was thinking it would be a fun learning experience to get a MTconnect client going to get usage metrics as well as integrating RFID reader of some sort to eventually do something like what the Dallas maker space has done. I'm thinking of using a beaglebone although I may need something other than a cramps board.. The trained user access is an issue that many makerspaces need to contend with that if there was a open source solution I think would make machinekit appealing to them. The more makerspaces that have and use machinekit will be good for machinekit. I'm getting the impression you can do anything with machinekit. A quick good search of machinekit RFID leads to very bad search results. Linuxcnc and RFID , I came up with this https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/message/34962950/ I know they have tool holders with RFID technology embedded in them that contain tool type and offset information in them. (Automatically feeding this info into a controller probably would probably have mistake proofing for the trained casual user from crashing the machine) The more I think about this, the more fun to be had.. If anyone has done anything like this, feel free to comment or point me to a link to look at. If it hasn't really been done, what would be the best path to take? At this point, I know enough about machinekit to be somewhat dangerous but have much further to go. I'm always open to learning something new. Tom -- 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 [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
