[Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread John Prentice
Chris If I was making a pendant I'd sure want a jogwheel instead of plus/minus buttons. It takes the same number of inputs and works much (much!) better. I have a real jogwheel but one of these days I'm going to try one of the little toy knob encoders from mouser etc - they're meant to be

Re: [Emc-users] adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Anders Wallin
Chris, I agree on the jogwheel. Because I currently don't have a jogwheel I am making due w/ the arrow keys on the AXIS GUI and it is working, my biggest problem is proximity to the work. I am still stuck at trying to figure out how to make a selection of the correct axis to jog w/o having

Re: [Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Mario .
Fantastic... but a support for more mouse interfaces would greater ;-) You shoul be able to set-up in settings if X or Y axis would be used, or be able to lock one axis still if a trackball would be used. Question is how to properly assign many mice at one computer? Maybe if you have one PS/2

[Emc-users] 3D printer project from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Fox
perhaps i was the only one here unaware of this project, but since it was slashdotted today, i thought i'd mention it here. a research team at cornell has come up with a DIY 3D printer project that you can build for $2400. article in new scientist:

Re: [Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 04:06, John Prentice wrote: Chris If I was making a pendant I'd sure want a jogwheel instead of plus/minus buttons. It takes the same number of inputs and works much (much!) better. I have a real jogwheel but one of these days I'm going to try one of the little

Re: [Emc-users] adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Cinquino
Anders, I was hoping I could do that. Do you have a link to a diagram that shows a match8. I understand that it is a 8 bit binary match detector but I am not sure how one of those work? Thanks, Mike On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 15:24 +0200, Anders Wallin wrote: Chris, I agree on the jogwheel.

Re: [Emc-users] adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Cinquino
Anders, Thanks... wow I some how missed that entire area of documentation. It looks like most of the things I am looking for are in that area. Thanks again, Mike On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:15 +0200, Anders Wallin wrote: Mike Cinquino wrote: Anders, I was hoping I could do that. Do you

[Emc-users] Using Program Filters with EMC2 and Axis.

2007-01-10 Thread Manfredi Leto
Hi, I would like to use the emc2 program filter feature... I've read the axis documentations here: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/axis/index.html In the program filter section there is an example with a script (holecircle.py) that should create g-code for drilling a series of holes along

Re: [Emc-users] Using Program Filters with EMC2 and Axis.

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Cinquino
Manfredi, From what I have read Axis needs to be installed. Use: sudo apt-get build-dep emc2-axis Here is the link to the wiki page that shows this. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2 Look under item 3.1 about in the middle between 3.1. and 3.2. Hope this helps.

Re: [Emc-users] 3D printer project from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-01-10 Thread Mario .
For 2400$, eh? I am sure that includes Core 2 Duo X6800 with Geforce 8800GTX cards in SLI and 42 LCD display... For 2400$ it would cost if you had someone do it... It is not like you cannot do some very good bank note copies with some personal printers on proper paper these days, so are the

Re: [Emc-users] Using Program Filters with EMC2 and Axis.

2007-01-10 Thread Manfredi Leto
Yes I thougt that, but when I type sudo apt-get build-dep emc2-axis in the terminal, I get the following message: E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/www.linuxcnc.org_emc2_dists_dapper_emc2_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory) (anyone knows why??) And I've got the same