Dear Machinekit Community, *tl;dr:* Machinekit uses HAL Pins for ROS bindings which is (or was?) nonstandard for Mesa cards (which uses params). Can I use any Mesa card with ROS and Machinekit for Step-dir control? (Looking at 7i92 + daughter cards). Trying to validate what I read online.
*Full message:* Impressed by the possibilities that Machinekit + ROS offer and your great work at: hal_ros_control <https://github.com/zultron/hal_ros_control>package (@Zultron @Luminize @Machinekoder), ros_hal_tests <https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/ros_hal_tests> (@Cdsteinkuehler) ros_hello_machinekit <https://github.com/luminize/ros_hello_machinekit> (@Luminize ) I would like to ask some compatibilty questions. As @Luminize stated in ros_hello_machinekit repository <https://github.com/luminize/ros_hello_machinekit> : *depending on the hardware you will need to use this machinekit branch (no support !!!) <https://github.com/luminize/machinekit/tree/hostmot-remove-params2> which uses pins instead of params for the mesa hardware stepgen. BEWARE only tested on a mesa 5i20 card. YMMV * I plan to buy 7i92 + daughter step/dir card just in case my parallel port is not good enough. Will it work with Machinekit + ROS without much modifications? Do I need to apply some custom branch or some other hacking? Thank you for your time devoted to this and making these meaningful contributions, which are a real game-changer for robotics researchers. Best regards, Jakub -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/machinekit/2ec3015f-ba35-458f-adb0-8de3cfc6891fn%40googlegroups.com.
