Hi all. Recently I have finally manufactured my CNC milling machine and I have proposed to handle it with a BBB and Machinekit which I already have (without any type of cape). After much reading and reading, I am still completely lost and I write here with the hope of receiving help, as I have seen that you have a lot of knowledge about it. I give you all my data and expectations to see if you can help me.
At the moment it is a three-axis milling machine with Nema23 motors and external drivers and in the future I would like to extend it to 5 axes and possibly to Nema34. On the other hand, I have a Chinese parallel port breakout board. I have managed to flash the BBB as well as run Machinekit following tutorials. And here all my doubts begin. Is it strictly necessary that I buy a cape to be able to operate the machine or would it be worth the breakout board that I already have and connect it pin to pin to the corresponding ones of the BBB? Should you need one which would be the easiest to acquire and configure? I tried to write an email for a BeBop ++ but it seems that the address does not exist. And on the other hand and already to finish, so I have read (and tried) once created and modified one of the configurations that well within the Machinekit itself I must compile it or run some kind of program to make it functional and activate the pins of the headers of the BBB, right? I have tried and executed some but I do not know how to check if I have done well 😔. I would appreciate any help, references, links to follow, etc. It is very hard to be self-taught. Thank you very much in advance even if only for the inconvenience and the time spent reading. Thank you!! -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/machinekit/a8118a04-c0f1-41b7-b627-a195ece4ed68%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
