Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-07 Thread Erik Friesen
. Managing this with a pic32 would be a piece of cake, its just the dev time that holds me back. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:59 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2012 01:34, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: I feel like I'm fumbling a bit for information on the mesa cards

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-07 Thread Erik Friesen
, although not sure if it really is worth it. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:36 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2012 15:10, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: I'll have to think this over a bit. It is one thing to write a driver when you have complete docs, yet another when you

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-07 Thread Erik Friesen
I have the master, as of a couple weeks ago, but I don't see any of the hm2 stuff. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: I have also been mulling over the ft232h. I asked ftdi, but never received a reply, about the latency. I assume it is at least 125 usec

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-06 Thread Erik Friesen
Stepper Controller will take care of the encoders for you: http://pico-systems.com/univstep.html. Many devices including the very inexpensive Teensy board can manage the HID. From: Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-06 Thread Erik Friesen
I don't care about an analog measurement, I want the system to pause or park when amps are outside of a set range. How would you do the first scenario? On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Erik Friesen wrote: I have been looking pretty close at the pico

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-06 Thread Erik Friesen
to an external mcu of some sort. Also, how would emc2 handle encoders with steppers? On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: I don't care about an analog measurement, I want the system to pause or park when amps are outside of a set range. How would you do the first scenario

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-06 Thread Erik Friesen
is this handled? If this was handled with a accessible register, that would work pretty well. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.comwrote: On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 12:29 -0500, Erik Friesen wrote: I am not so sure about the parallel port and encoder idea though, the encoders

Re: [Emc-users] Control board

2012-02-06 Thread Erik Friesen
PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Erik Friesen wrote: Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:57:10 -0500 From: Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Workpiece is longer than the mill travel

2012-02-04 Thread Erik Friesen
Perhaps more experienced hands will have a better idea, but here is how I'd do it. Make two programs, with the second program zeroing on the last hole of the first. When you clamp the second phase down, zero on hole, and check square with program via one of previous holes. Use the g10L2 etc

Re: [Emc-users] Probing error?

2012-01-31 Thread Erik Friesen
Could there be any connection with this to the M66 problem I have listed herehttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=106744aid=3477158group_id=6744? I think its an error in communication between the top and bottom levels. If M66 is followed by an oname etc, the decoder sees this as two

Re: [Emc-users] File naming conventions in an oname call?

2012-01-30 Thread Erik Friesen
Another gotcha with this, upper and lowercase doesn't seem to work. Keep everything lowercase with both filename and subname. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:16 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Monday, January 30, 2012 11:40:25 AM John Thornton did opine: If your using 2.4

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-23 Thread Erik Friesen
Yes, C style. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Martin Dobbins tu...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes Martin Does anyone else indent their loops and subs in G-code? atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong.

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