> On 28 Mar 2017, at 22:40, Daren Schwenke <darenschwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh yeah... Featured on hackaday: > http://hackaday.com/2017/03/26/mrrf-17-true-color-3d-printing/ > When I saw this I immediately tried to get him to correct some things. Not > mentioning Machinekit was one of them, getting all the names wrong was > another. He hasn't done it yet.
Congrats! Nice post and nice work! > >> On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 6:17:00 PM UTC-4, Tom M wrote: >> >> 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 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.
