Re: [Emc-users] Interesting GUI

er." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > ___ > Emc-users mailing

Re: [Emc-users] brushless sewing machine motors

Ralph, my sis in law has one of those on her old walking foot leather stitcher. The motor seems well made and has a surprising amount of torque, but the controller is a little disappointing. Its a bit laggy, even for a sowing machine, but that might due to the way my brother hooked it up (I think

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: shipping

Chris, that is a very clever way to get the cheap eBay rates for non eBay shipments! I'll have to keep that in mind for sure. Cheers, Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 12:28 AM Chris Albertson wrote: > Shipping price depends on from where it is shipped. Ev

Re: [Emc-users] Very low backlash ballscrews [Was: Re: How does this work?

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 1:29 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > Go to eBay and search for "SFU1605" That is a 16mm diameter by 5mm pitch > screw. These come with nuts that had best NEVER be removed I disagree! The nuts must ALWAYS be removed! :) In my experience all

Re: [Emc-users] callback from the python module

Maxime, I don't know what you needed the callback for, but since you are using the python interface I assume you just want to monitor the LCNC status. As part of hazzy I wrote a wrapper for the python interface that permits registering on-change callbacks for any of the LCNC stat attributes. For

Re: [Emc-users] TSC, grrrrr.

Gene, As far as I know ALL R8 collets have a 7/16"-20 UNF draw-bar thread, if it does not have that it is not an R8 collet! Your TSC does not stock UNF bolts? Pretty sure the ones around here stock both UNC and UNF in at least Grade 2. I know ACE stocks both UNF and UNC in Grade 2, 5 and 8 as

Re: [Emc-users] TSC, grrrrr.

David, I think USS is what in the unified system is called UNC. Likewise, SAE became UNF in the unified system. I don't know if there are any other differences in thread profiles etc. but they seem to be compatible in my experience. Cheers, Kurt On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:33 PM, David Berndt

Re: [Emc-users] USB wifi dongle

May I once again mentioned the ThinkPenguin WiFi dongles as possible candidates? https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-g-usb-adapter Based on the debian wiki the drivers for the Realtek RTL8187B chipset used in the above linked dongle are included in the Linux kernel, and should

Re: [Emc-users] USB wifi dongle

Sorry, I did not mean to link the page for that specific dongle, they have several others: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeremy, > > ThinkPenguin sells WiFi do

Re: [Emc-users] USB wifi dongle

Jeremy, ThinkPenguin sells WiFi dongles and cards that are designed to work out of the box with libre Linux. Every time I waste hours of my life finding and installing proprietary drivers for WiFi cards I promise I will get one so I don't have to mess with it again, but somehow once I get it

Re: [Emc-users] Getting a burned up polygroove belt out of a motor pulley. Need chemist expert

P.S. Maybe some epoxy/paint stripper might work to remove that stuff ... On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:34 PM, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gene, can your Sheldon swing the pulley? > I had a similar situation recently with belt residue build up on my PB > motor pu

Re: [Emc-users] Getting a burned up polygroove belt out of a motor pulley. Need chemist expert

Gene, can your Sheldon swing the pulley? I had a similar situation recently with belt residue build up on my PB motor pulley. I tried all sorts of chemicals, acetone being the most effective, but that was still not very promising, so I resorted to mechanical means. I chucked the pulley up in the

Re: [Emc-users] Help

be pushed to the very end of the wait list. Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 12:07 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 March 2018 at 15:44, Todd Zuercher <to...@pgrahamdunn.com> wrote: > > > I'm in Ohio, and the part I need is a

Re: [Emc-users] revers tool path.

> between 0.15" and 0.25" > > i try to get hold of people that creating software , but only manage to > talk to sale or technical support people. > aram > > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >

Re: [Emc-users] revers tool path.

Aram, it sounds like you are trying to do some additive manufacturering, so maybe you could use a slicer intended for 3d printing to create the program. Slic3r might be configurable enough for what you are trying to do. Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 10:57 PM

Re: [Emc-users] email failures.

spend some time playing with groups.io and even made a test list and it seems to be very well thought out and has some nice features, like topic tagging. I think it would be a good choice if we do ever need to find an alternative to SF. The free plan should be more than sufficient for this list. Kurt

Re: [Emc-users] CBN wheels.

! Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Jan 7, 2018 11:28 AM, "Gene Heskett" <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Greetings all; > > I appear to be learning that one can't use diamond on an HSS tool, as > I've managed to kill a 1200 grit diamond faced 6" disk.

Re: [Emc-users] posted some hal code for my 2 encoder spindle on the forum.

Gene, if you enter a Username and the name of our little mascot (no capital) as the "Administrators Password" and leave everything else as is you should be able to edit the Wikis. I just confirmed that it works for me. Cheers, Kurt Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Dec

Re: [Emc-users] default tool icon in z axis view mode

Gene, that is an interesting idea. What I normally do is simply load a tool with a very small Dia (.005in) so I have a small dot on the screen indicating where the tool is. Problem is it can be hard to see when zoomed out. Cheers, Kurt Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Dec 14, 2017

Re: [Emc-users] Avoiding probe crash

I like Cristian's idea of having a "stop on unexpected probe trip" HAL pin, defaulting to TRUE. That seems the most flexible, and then even a remap could set/unset it if needed for some reason. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Ken Strauss wrote: > Perhaps too much to ask

Re: [Emc-users] New $33 60GB SSD's from newegg

web hosting companies > are using SSD. But I can't find published data, > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Chris Albertson < > albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> > wrote: &

Re: [Emc-users] New $33 60GB SSD's from newegg

Interesting John. What ThinkPad do you have? I have had a couple of the 128gb SSDs in our T410s fail, some after less than a year. I have been replacing them with Samsung or Kingston SSDs. I have not had problems with either. The original were Intel, which I would think would be decent, but I

Re: [Emc-users] PC MB for Linux.

There are a bunch of utilities for creating bootable USBs out there. Probably the more reliable and easiest to use is Etcher. It runs on most platforms and just works, automagicaly. https://etcher.io/ I also like Rufus, but it only runs on windoze. https://rufus.akeo.ie Cheers, Kurt On Mon,

Re: [Emc-users] Path Pilot on LinuxCNC -- Was MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black

I would much prefer to edit a well thought out and documented config file than use pretty much any Grunt n' Click interface. People who come from Win and OSX are not used to that, so it seems crude to them at first, but they soon learn to wield the powerful text editor with the best of them. At

Re: [Emc-users] Path Pilot on LinuxCNC -- Was MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > Tormach says they don't support path pilot on 3rd party equipment. It > likely > depends on specialized hardware so it would not run without modification > and I don't think they have source code available. >

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:40 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > as far as screen editing - I never felt the need for it. Sure it would be > neat. I get buy adding side panels to the existing gui for extra things I > need. > Gscreen is a possiblilty also someone is working on a

Re: [Emc-users] Path Pilot on LinuxCNC -- Was MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black

As far as I can tell PathPilot is basically Linuxcnc 2.6 with some minor tweaks and a fancy (and SLOW to load) GUI. I set up PathPilot on my mill the the other day so see how difficult it actually was, and for S I even hooked up the onscreen override sliders so they would update appropriately

Re: [Emc-users] Project, anyone?

That is interesting Dave, I got in my Conestoga wagon (2010 sprinter) and headed west for the first time a few months ago. I ended up covering about 12000 mi over 28 days, so I was on the move most of the time, but I did get to spend some time in Oregon and Washington. I was surprised how lush it

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:27 PM, andy pugh wrote: > This is why I like the approach taken by the "Touchy" interface which > basically requires a jogwheel and a physical "start" button. > > You can still begin the homing sequence from the touch screen, and I > think I would

Re: [Emc-users] Project, anyone?

Shame it has been out standing in its field for so long. But it looks salvageable. Good thing it is on the other side of the country from me ... Cheers, -Kurt On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Andy Evans wrote: > https://portland.craigslist.org/grg/tls/d/huge-shoda-cnc-rou >

Re: [Emc-users] git requests

Maybe try: git pull origin master Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Aug 23, 2017 8:40 PM, "Gene Heskett" <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > If I an cd'd to a linuxcnx-git directory already containing a clone of > the 2.8.0-pre source tree, what is the pr

Re: [Emc-users] Can't install from livecd (usb stick)

I know that some older computers do not support booting from a USB. Have you been able to verify that it can? I am sorry I can't be of more help. I hope someone else chimes in who can help more. Good luck! Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Jul 1, 2017 4:50 PM, <tom-...@bgp

Re: [Emc-users] Can't install from livecd (usb stick)

Did you try disabling any CDROM drives listed in BIOS? Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Jul 1, 2017 4:17 PM, <tom-...@bgp.nu> wrote: > Still fighting with this. I’ve never had so much problem installing > Linuxcnc. I have tried everything, different USB stic

[Emc-users] Fwd: Reconfirm subscription to emc-users and emc-developers mailing lists

Was a consensus ever reached as to the validity of these "Reconfirm subscription" emails? This is the first time I have gotten one of them. Surly they are not going to actually end my subscription if I don't "reconfirm" by July 30th. And what if they do end my subscription, it is a simple mater of

Re: [Emc-users] Things are quiet

So you want to use polar coordinates? That is very easy with LinuxCNC, just use the @ symbol to specify the length and angle of the path. Ex: G1 @1^10 creates a line segment with length 1 at an angle of 10 deg from the x axis. See the docs here:

Re: [Emc-users] EMC traffic

I was thinking the same thing. It's very unusual for this list to be so quiet. Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Jun 19, 2017 5:47 PM, "hubert" <h...@hbahr.org> wrote: > Just checking, It seems unusual not to have any posts in this long a > period. My last

[Emc-users] CNC Plasma Tube Notcher

Hello all, Some of the videos linked in the "LCNC TED Talk style" thread reminded me of a CNC plasma tubing notcher I designed and built a few years ago while I was in school. I think some of you might be interested. As built the notcher has a capacity of 4". It consists of a rotating

Re: [Emc-users] LCNC TED Talk style

Here a couple of my favorite LCNC videos. High speed machining: https://youtu.be/-Xl3-GNnrCg Nice Hexapod: https://youtu.be/nebJ59TcYlQ https://youtu.be/hPE3Qr-ECtQ Variable Diameter/Pitch Threading: https://youtu.be/ACvRilmIKDQ Hobbing: https://youtu.be/ZhICrb0Tbn4?t=73 Ridged tapping

Re: [Emc-users] LCNC TED Talk style

Wow, there's been some pretty oddball stuff done with LCNC!! This is all I've got: https://youtu.be/SXHHHw69-NQ On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: > RUGBOT!!! :D That is so nerdy I must show it! > And of course Chris' jukebox for the finale. :) >

Re: [Emc-users] Forum down?

https://youtu.be/MH7KYmGnj40 On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:15 PM, giorgio foga wrote: > sorry Gene I'm not american what is means: Yup, its dead Jim??? > At least I can understand the trend he has developer views. > > > regards > > giorgio > > >

Re: [Emc-users] Forum down?

And I promise it was not my fualt this time. ;) Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Apr 29, 2017 4:44 PM, "andy pugh" <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 April 2017 at 21:24, Bengt Sjölund <beng...@tecno.se> wrote: > > unable to log sinc

Re: [Emc-users] Gui Feature Request

Todd, A job que is an interesting idea and I can see were it would be useful. I am working on a new GUI and I have been thinking of all the interesting things to eventually add to make it more useful, I will keep this in mind and start thinking about how to implement it. Another idea I have in

Re: [Emc-users] Forum down?

I have only posted on the forum twice, and each time it has gone down shortly thereafter. The only reasonable conclusion is that I break the forum ;) Cheers, Kurt On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:33 AM, giorgio foga wrote: > Some forum it has "donate" button .. In this way it

Re: [Emc-users] Way OT, Unexpected Result from Refrigerator

te the > premises quickly. I had an aunt and her family that did wake up, but > they couldn't really breath easy for several months afterwards. > > Now you know "the rest of the story" about camper fridges. If you can't > hear a compressor running, I'd never sleep in a camp

Re: [Emc-users] Way OT, Unexpected Result from Refrigerator

> > I am impressed that someone managed to come up with this cycle: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mnr/fridge.html We used to see quite a few ammonia cycle based refrigerators and central air conditioning units down here in the south (Georgia), but they are becoming scarce now. They were generally

Re: [Emc-users] joint-axis question

at actually selecting the axis index? I'll have to take a look at the widget code I guess. Thanks again and sorry for being a bother! Kurt On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am a bit bamboozled at the moment

[Emc-users] joint-axis question

Greetings all, I am a bit bamboozled at the moment, maybe one of you can help me out. I use a custom LCNC UI and I am trying to convert it over to support joint-axes so I can play with 2.8 pre. I just about got everything working last night for my basic XYZA config, but have hit a road block

Re: [Emc-users] Canonical killing Unity for Ubuntu Linux

> > Just an FYI, Canonical is giving up on the Unity interface for Ubuntu and > going back to Gnome. That is fantastic news! I have goten tired of having to uninstall all the Unity junk to replace it with something that actually works every time I do a new install. IMHO the only thing Unity does

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Title Bar?

Todd, It comes from [EMC] MACHINE in the ini file l am pretty sure. Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Apr 3, 2017 12:28 PM, "Todd Zuercher" <zuerc...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Where exactly is the text that is stuck in the title bare of the Axis > window har

Re: [Emc-users] Possible simplification of my code

> > sudo halcompile --install mux2s32.comp > worked a treat. Is there a man page? Excellent, I'm glad it worked. Here is the man page for the HAL comp generator: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/comp.html I just modified the code for the mux2, simply changed any instance of float to s32. It

Re: [Emc-users] Possible simplification of my code

Gene, Why don't you write your own component? I have several times found it easier to write a component that does just what need rather than cobbling something together with the existing HAL comps. Here is the code for a mux2 that handles s32. To install I would run: halcompile --install

Re: [Emc-users] I am gonna need more wire.

Gene, guess I'm kinda late here, but I paint just about every bit of iron I can get my hands on with Valspar Tractor and Implement Enamel, its great stuff but comes in limited colors. However, it is possible to mix the various stock colors to get just about any color imaginably. Its pretty cheap

Re: [Emc-users] gee, is list in anechoic chamber

I have several loose screws, but I have long since given up trying to tighten them! Boy, it is quite out there though, I have only gotten a few emails in total today and I am usually snowed under with them. Have a great evening Gene! Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Mar 3, 2017 5

Re: [Emc-users] MPG detents

There should be a flat rubber gasket with holes for the three mounting studs. If not I guess it would be a good idea to use some sort of "goop" to seal the interface and keep coolent from getting to the encoder. Kurt Jacobson 505-303-1933 Sent from Mobile On Mar 2, 2017 1:36 PM, &qu

Re: [Emc-users] MPG detents

l.com> wrote: > On 2 March 2017 at 03:08, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since there has been a significant amount of discussion about the cheap > > MPGs I decided to take mine apart and find out how they work. I took a > > bunch of pictures duri

Re: [Emc-users] MPG detents

l.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2017 22:08:50 Kurt Jacobson wrote: > > > Since there has been a significant amount of discussion about the > > cheap MPGs I decided to take mine apart and find out how they work. I > > took a bunch of pictures during the disassembly, you can fi

Re: [Emc-users] MPG detents

Since there has been a significant amount of discussion about the cheap MPGs I decided to take mine apart and find out how they work. I took a bunch of pictures during the disassembly, you can find them here: https://goo.gl/photos/w8fJaFLzzUsFzfmV7 It turns out that they use a simple flat spring

Re: [Emc-users] MPG detents

There is no "divide by 4", the machine just moves in increments that are one fourth the jog increment. For example if you have the increment set to .001 the machine will move .00025 four times per detent, which does result in 4 times smother moment. Kurt On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Roland

Re: [Emc-users] Problem installing Linuxcnc-dev on 2.5.0

in concictant. Now, back to playing with HAL. On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 27 February 2017 15:51:53 Kurt Jacobson wrote: > > > Gene, I just about fell over laughing and then I would have got hurt! > > > > Yo

Re: [Emc-users] Problem installing Linuxcnc-dev on 2.5.0

Monday 27 February 2017 15:12:03 Kurt Jacobson wrote: > > > OK, I got linuxcnc-dev installed on 2.5 and the hal comps compiled. > > > > All I needed to do was add the apt source "deb http://linuxcnc.org/ > > lucid base linuxcnc2.5" > > > > For some rea

[Emc-users] Problem installing Linuxcnc-dev on 2.5.0

Hello all, I am trying to compile some HAL components for PathPilot. I though the best thing to do would be to compile them on LCNC 2.5.0 running on Ubuntu 10.04 with 2.6.32-122-rtai since that appears to match what PathPilot is running on, and them transfer them over to PathPilot. I have

Re: [Emc-users] Those encoder dials have a gotcha

Gene, my MPG works great. Does not have any lag at all. The 400ppr did throw me off at first when the machine jogged four times the jog scale. I put a fix for that in the MPG comp I wrote, it just divides the jog scale by whatever the mpg-pulses parameter is set to, 4 in this case. I like the

Re: [Emc-users] MPG HAL component

;el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 02/23/2017 01:32 PM, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > > > > I tried to edit Jon's HAL file found here > > <http://pico-systems.com/codes/jebport/pendant.hal> to fit my needs but > I > > never did get it to work. I guess I don't un

Re: [Emc-users] Math Q

Gene, The bolt circle is right at 2" (50.8mm) diameter on the MPG I got. Funny it is not metric. A 43mm hole in the panel works perfect for letting it sit flush. Hope that helps! Kurt On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Thee MPJA

Re: [Emc-users] G41-42 and G64 Bug?q

with an abnormally high value of Q behaves. I am still mystified as to why blending seems to be disabled with G41/G42 though. I need to so some more experimenting but I took the mill apart again, so that will have to wait! Thanks, Kurt *Kurt Jacobson, CMfgT* Mechanical / Manufacturing Engineer

Re: [Emc-users] G41-42 and G64 Bug?q

Todd, I just got my machine running again and ran your code. The naive cam detector algorithm is clearly applied to the compensated path, not the programmed path. There does not seem to be any point in using the naive cam detector for hand written programs, though, and even so your part would

Re: [Emc-users] G41-42 and G64 Bug?

> Maybe I am reading the docs wrong. > > - Original Message - > From: "Kurt Jacobson" <kurtjacob...@bellsouth.net> > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 2:10:26 PM > Sub

Re: [Emc-users] G41-42 and G64 Bug?

I don't really know any thing about this, but I'd say that is the expected behavior based on the description of G64 Path Blending: "On G2/G3 moves in the G17 (XY) plane when the maximum deviation of an arc from a straight line is less than the G64 P- tolerance the arc is broken into two lines

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Need some guidance on high temp/pressure water circuit

, and the piping system would be greatly simplified by being able to use common low pressure fittings such as swivels, quick connects etc. which would likely an advantage given the application. Also corrosion would not be a concern. Anyway, my $0.02 Cheers, Kurt *Kurt Jacobson, CMfgT* Mechanical

Re: [Emc-users] OT, Vacuum Tubes Galore

Kirk, that looks like a good channel! Thanks for sending it along for all us kindred spirits. I have three Tektronix scopes, a 533A a 545A and a 547, and absolutely love them. I use some hi dollar modern scopes at the universities nuclear lab were I work, but I'd prefer my old analog scopes any

Re: [Emc-users] Leadshine closed loop steppers

Greg, I am using hybrid servos for my mill conversion, they work great, so far. They need to be tuned, otherwise they hum and their torque drops quickly. I am getting upwards of 270ipm on Y with 5mm screws and x25 microstepping. Don't have X yet. Can probably go higher still since I have not had

Re: [Emc-users] Forum Down?

It has been down for me all morning and is still down at 1:15pm eastern. I had about 30 tabs open with the forum in the wee hours, maybe I did it in! Kurt On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/16/2017 07:45 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > Did the

Re: [Emc-users] rtai on 12.04 Ubuntu

I found out the hard way that it is not a good idea to select the kernel numerically (e.g. GRUB_DEFAULT="2>3") since if another kernel is added (by an update?) the order might change. I now use the string method as below exclusively and have not had any surprises since. GRUB_DEFAULT="Previous

Re: [Emc-users] rtai on 12.04 Ubuntu

; > If you figure out a clear way to describe the changes needed to the GRUB > > config, an update to the docs would be much appreciated! > > > > > > > > -- > Check out the vibrant tech community