Re: [Emc-users] Looking to replace $4000 machine for $400 machine with same results in emc :) yes its a strange title...

2012-03-05 Thread Ben Jackson
that at work (embedded Linux device) and it works fine as long as you can ensure any access to the BARs is stopped during the reconfiguration. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Try before you buy = See

Re: [Emc-users] C Compiler

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Jackson
the same design space as the 8-bit PICs. An AVR is the basis of the popular Arduino development boards (which run C++ compiled with GCC). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Virtualization Cloud

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely sure why. Aha, that's why I added the laser-thread in my HAL: A base-period thread with FP allowed. On a modern CPU it's no big deal. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Jackson
. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Jackson
on). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Jackson
forgetting that I still do need it. Now that I know about the Mesa 5i25 I may end up redoing all that laser support for that card (with rastering support directly in the FPGA). Always another project. :) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread Ben Jackson
, it's telling them what will be accepted into the product. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-20 Thread Ben Jackson
how many axes are displayed in the GUI (looks like several are unused in the demo). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online

Re: [Emc-users] halui.axis.N.pos-relative

2012-01-07 Thread Ben Jackson
is origin.0 If you then find halui.axis.N.pos-commanded - origin.0 you should have the true pos-relative (I agree that the docs don't match the source) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Ridiculously easy

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Ben Jackson
heard of that, but it may exist. Sort of like mice that supported USB or PS/2 with an adapter -- that adapter didn't convert from USB to PS/2, it just electrically connected the pins and the mouse itself was capable of doing either. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Ben Jackson
also carry digital audio, and having one HDMI connector rather than DVI plus a digital audio connector is a few cents cheaper for the PC) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Ridiculously easy VDI

Re: [Emc-users] Riser for Intel Mini-ITX

2012-01-04 Thread Ben Jackson
the servo thread with onboard video? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless

Re: [Emc-users] Effect of isolcpus boot parameter with D510 cpu ( was Re: hal taking machine down)

2012-01-03 Thread Ben Jackson
candidate for: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?TroubleShooting -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-29 Thread Ben Jackson
as dots of missing material? You can import and scale an image. Put it on another layer and lock the layer (even make it partially transparent). If you have an Excellon drill file and some python programming expertise you could write a plugin to import them as circles. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

[Emc-users] Idea for homing a gantry

2011-11-03 Thread Ben Jackson
both sides are on their stops. Then V home will operate only on the V limit switch and remove the skew. After that you don't drive V. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread Ben Jackson
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Re: [Emc-users] creating logic with lut5.9

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Jackson
= 0xf0f0f0f0 i3 = 0xff00ff00 i4 = 0x and as long as you stick to bitwise operations (~ for not, |, , ^) you can simply evaluate your expression directly: print '0x%08x' % ((i2 i1) | (~i2 i0)) -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Jackson
flagged in the meantime. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security

Re: [Emc-users] Not homing A axis

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Jackson
automatically mark the axis as homed? I don't think you can force an axis to be homed. If you 'setp' the 'homed' pin it's read-only. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- All the data continuously

Re: [Emc-users] Debounce error

2011-10-10 Thread Ben Jackson
debounce.0.0.out stays false forever. What am I missing? Did you addf it to any threads? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry machine with motorised chuck

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Jackson
for supposing C is not at X0Y0Z0. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance

Re: [Emc-users] OT: 3D Surface Generation

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Jackson
on in later steps. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerryreg; mobile

[Emc-users] Parallel port pin 1 toggles at startup

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Jackson
because if I setp ... 1 it only clicks once and stays on. This might be happening with other outputs as well -- I always noticed a stepper clonk at startup which might be the drivers enabling briefly. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com

Re: [Emc-users] M67/68 and motion (was M3/M4 and M5)

2011-09-10 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:07:05AM +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: On 10 Sep 2011, at 01:22, Ben Jackson b...@ben.com wrote: The problem for engraving is that a sequence G1 X1; M67 ...; G1 X2 ; ... to make a sweep across X does not just accelerate to peak X speed and stay there. It stutters

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-09 Thread Ben Jackson
and is constant for the entire job (at least for a single engraving). Now that I know more HAL magic I could see setting up M3 Sxxx to drive the PWM instead. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Why Cloud-Based

Re: [Emc-users] M67/68 and motion (was M3/M4 and M5)

2011-09-09 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:58:56AM +0100, andy pugh wrote: On 9 September 2011 07:34, Ben Jackson b...@ben.com wrote: When I tried it (before I discovered M67 wasn't working in 2.4) what I found was that the motion planner slows down at each segment making it useless for engraving

Re: [Emc-users] Can external commands like M101 read or set #1 parameters?

2011-09-08 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:19:01PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: On 8 September 2011 02:11, Ben Jackson b...@ben.com wrote: Is it possible to make a M101 type script that reads or writes `#1' parameters? You might be able to do something with the Gcode analogue inputs (M67) which can be set

Re: [Emc-users] M3/M4 and M5

2011-09-08 Thread Ben Jackson
S1' is sufficient. Originally I used M62/63/65 alone but the spindle-on interacts nicely with job start/stop whereas a digital output will happily stay on. My HAL has several ways to turn the laser on now which go into a lut5 that uses motion.spindle-on as a master enable. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

[Emc-users] Order of function (comp, and, or, lut5, etc) evaluation

2011-09-07 Thread Ben Jackson
or should I just put everything at that interval into base-thread? -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com/ -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have

[Emc-users] Can external commands like M101 read or set #1 parameters?

2011-09-07 Thread Ben Jackson
a prompt for a size and then injects that back into the script). I have tried emc.command().mdi(...) but of course that is rejected in auto mode and I'm not sure what will happen if I change modes while the top .ngc is executing just so my M101 can evaluate some commands. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b

[Emc-users] Ways to get additional arguments (strings!) to M101 etc

2011-09-07 Thread Ben Jackson
in conjunction with the subroutine in the other file so it will be followed by `O- call'. I'd rather not put something in between (and some attempts with G4 dwell didn't help, either in the top .ngc or the 123.ngc sub file). -- Ben Jackson AD7GD b...@ben.com http://www.ben.com