I was at the Midwest Reprap festival on Saturday and I all I have to say is that it was frickin awesome. (Kid in a candy store doesn't come close to describing it)
It's grown and now occupies two buildings. There where more than a 1000 people in attendance. Lots of new cleaver innovation that was new to me. In his Beaglebone presentation, Jason Kridner from TI talked about Machinekit among other things. Jason also had had a PocketNC running Machinekit which which is a very cool machine. I was chatting with Drew Fustini from Oshpark.com ( who is board member of the Beaglebone foundation) and he mentioned this multi-filmanent color mixing printer I needed to check out. I missed it on my first pass through the second building. It turns this awesome printer belonged to a sleep deprived Daren Schwenke (Arcus 3d) who runs machinekit on a Beaglebone/Cramps board and posts often on this group. (All I got to say is his color mixing printer is cool and I hope he brings his machine to the meetup) I introduced Daren to Jason Kridner and Elias Bakken from Replicate (who had the booth next to Jason) and we had a fun discussion about his machine. Prior to this, I was asking Drew and Jason about the jog delay I was experiencing in machinekit. This delay occurs when I'm running Axis and the bbb is hooked up to a monitor. If I understand this correctly is that X windows doesn't support the GPU on the BBB. The result is that this puts a huge load on the cpu since hardware graphics acceleration via X doesn't work on Jesse. The hope is that with Debian 9 Stretch and it's implementation of Wayland instead of X-windows will solve this issue. Silly question here... If Wayland hasn't been released yet but it's getting close, shouldn't we be testing it on machinekit on the BBB to see if Wayland works with the BBB Gpu. If there is something that could be tweaked would it be better to do it at this point rather than when Stretch is released? I'm out totally out of my league here as to fixing the gpu issue, but I thought I ask the question. I'm really getting into machinekit on a BBB. I just want to get rid of the jog delay and have the display to be a bit more zippy. I think fixing the GPU issue could be huge as far as promoting the use of machinekit. 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.
