Re: [Emc-users] G2/G3 is eating my lunch again

Re: OSHPark and gEDA/PCB I have sent artwork from PCB to OSHPark and received exactly what I sent them. Problem being exactly what I sent was ... wrong. There were no circuits on the back side due to me not paying attention to the files I was renaming. As to OSHPark vs some of the Chinese fab

Re: [Emc-users] could Linux cnc control of unconventional mill design like this and general thoughts and comments.

Re: homing. Delta printers usually home at the top of their travel. When I asked my CNC instructor about a delta mill he said the lack of rigidity would kill accuracy. On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 7:38 PM linden wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to look at the pictures and read

Re: [Emc-users] Looping and axis

The piss poor programmer in me bristles at the thought of you wanting to break from an infinite loop. :P I would consider flag = 1 While (flag) if (we want to break free) flag = 0 On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:24 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 5 November 2015 at 01:57, Ralph

Re: [Emc-users] Desktops and OS's

Way back at the start of this email, someone was talking about different DEs. I personally have been running Bodhi linux, an Ubuntu derived distro, for a few years. The lead Dev recently posted a blog about installing moksha, an Enlightenment derivative, on Debian Jessie. Enlightenment does things

Re: [Emc-users] [emc-users] Building from source

Apologies for my reply. I was the stupid human posing the question. When I read you only wanted the simulator, I thought I would ask why not just run in a VM, but, I didn't ask in a text friendly way. On Sat, Sep 19, 2015, 10:38 PM Jeff Epler wrote: > It looks like you're

Re: [Emc-users] Porting LinuxCNC(EMC) to Windows was CAD/CAM for LinuxCNC

Maybe I don't understand what you are getting at. Why go through all the effort of breaking the software up between BBB and a Windows machine? Why not just remote in to the BBB and call it a day? On Sat, Sep 19, 2015, 11:59 AM John Dammeyer wrote: > > On 19/09/15 05:55,

Re: [Emc-users] [emc-users] Building from source

Stupid human question. Wouldn't running in a VM be quicker, easier, and less painful? On Sat, Sep 19, 2015, 9:08 PM Evan Foss wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Evan Foss wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > I am trying to build from source. I know this

Re: [Emc-users] CAD/CAM for LinuxCNC

I have no knowledge or connection with Weber systems, but, I have not seen their synergy CAD/CAM package mentioned. Any reason? http://www.webersys.com/ On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 10:07 PM Dave Cole wrote: > On 9/18/2015 8:52 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > I spent a day

Re: [Emc-users] Drag-chain cable

Tangential. Indiana and India somehow throws some people. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 2:40 PM Thomas Kaiser wrote: > On 09/15/2015 08:15 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 15 September 2015 at 18:31, Thomas Kaiser > wrote: > >> On 09/15/2015 05:35 PM, andy pugh

Re: [Emc-users] computing max acceleration for an actuator

Late to the party armed with nothing more than book smarts, may not be enough. If you can accurately measure time over distance, you should be able to find relatively close max accel. Once the time over distance is constant from point to point you go back and say 0 to 100 took 500mS and 14mm or

Re: [Emc-users] My crashomatic lathe box, update, sorta

A bit off topic, but, I noticed you, Gene, retyped the same command after sudo. I'm unsure when it was added, but, you might try sudo !! to rerun a command as root that you previously tried running as a normal user. On May 4, 2015 11:04 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Monday 04 May

Re: [Emc-users] New Debian install does not include Gedit

I noticed a couple of mentions that geany doesn't have nc highlighting. Adding it shouldn't be much of an issue. Heck, someone may already have the config available. On Apr 1, 2015 11:28 AM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: On 04/01/2015 06:33 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... snip

Re: [Emc-users] ot: voltage and steppers

You missed the part where Gene suggested you check motor temp not chip temp. :) On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:13 AM, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 28 March 2015 19:36:09 kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Bertho Stultiens wrote: On

Re: [Emc-users] InfraRecorder google Chrome download warning?

This doesn't answer your question about security certificates. You could try imgburn. http://www.imgburn.com/ On Mar 25, 2015 2:13 AM, Mark Johnsen m...@ijohnsen.com wrote: I needed a windows ISO burner and went to the LinuxCNC site because I had gotten one there before. I found infraRecorder

Re: [Emc-users] Debian Wheezy Monitor Blank

I warned you. I know enough to be dangerous. :D See if https://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/use-xrandr.html has any useful info for you. On Mar 25, 2015 2:52 PM, Mark Johnsen m...@ijohnsen.com wrote: I made some progress, but still struggling. The Ctrl-Alt-F1 opened a terminal, but maybe

Re: [Emc-users] Debian Wheezy Monitor Blank

I only know enough to be terribly dangerous. Ctrl+Alt+F1 might give access to a terminal and then maybe xrandr with the proper arguments to re-enable the GUI? On Mar 25, 2015 4:42 AM, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: On 25.03.15 08:48, Andreas Pettersson wrote: Easiest way is

Re: [Emc-users] Where's Gene?

He has posted on a debian forum thread as recently as yesterday. On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Quoth Belli Button. Haven't heard from him in a while, hope he's oOK. He seems to be busy on the trinity-kde users mailing list. -- Regards,

Re: [Emc-users] Best way to get Debian

I did a bit of reading about debian install media. It seems the first disc is the base install (according to a quick scan of an article). The remaining discs contain all the remaining packages for a full install. On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Marius Alksnys marius.alks...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] You-tube rejection [Was: Super-simple linear motor]

It is my understanding that Youtube has or is in the final(?) stages of converting everything to HTML5. It would also seem that others have a better clue as to what is going on than I do. On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Steve Stallings steve...@newsguy.com wrote: If indeed FlashBlock is

Re: [Emc-users] Address change, was I love Linux and pocket hole script

Re: wifi and WPA. I would at a stretch guess that the wireless card/drivers you have does not support WPA. That said your hardware must be, put nicely, dated. :) On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:54 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 February 2015 at 14:40, Chris Reynolds

Re: [Emc-users] I love linuxcnc

Wireless connections just require a bit of research. You may need to do a bit of incantations in the terminal, but, it is likely your wireless can be made to work. Worst case you find a wireless adapter known to work and go from there. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Gene Heskett

Re: [Emc-users] $64 question

Hey Gene, I just wanted to mention that inkscape has finally updated in the past week. It is now up to version .91. There is a very much reduced memory footprint now. The UI has changed a minor bit. You should probably at least look in to the update. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:31 AM,

Re: [Emc-users] Linux Program for Wiring Diagrams

I would like to throw 2 more cents in to the pot of info. Dia is a free tool to assemble diagrams. It is similar to visio for Windows. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:16 PM, linden l...@island.net wrote: thanks all for the suggestions as always a wealth of experience here. I have some experimenting

Re: [Emc-users] A round tuit generator

Try this on for size. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28951892/round-tuit.dxf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28951892/round-tuit.svg With a bit more work I could improve the file a bit. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.comwrote: On 04/15/2014 10:11

[Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

I see a number of posts on this list regarding VFDs that I thought I would share this bit of information in case it was not on your radar. http://hackaday.com/2012/01/19/building-a-variable-frequency-drive-for-a-three-phase-motor/

Re: [Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

I just wanted to apologize for the double post. I didn't realize there was a time lag between sending and appearing. And, it was posted from two different accounts. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow!

Re: [Emc-users] Default File Directory

You could always point EMC to the shared folder. -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn

Re: [Emc-users] Next distribution after Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is no longer supported?

I was going to comment on Lubuntu. I am not sure if there are LTS releases of it though. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application

Re: [Emc-users] CAM Program

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:33 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: Their web page was very coy on pricing. Roughly how much does it cost? They will willingly send you a pdf of the price breakdown if you ask. I can tell you it varies depending on the number of axis that you require. Kyle

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Cheap VFD

As I missed it the first time around, Happy Birthday Gene! On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:36 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 02:35:15 PM Dave did opine: [...] FWIW, I woke up this morning and realized that I had now completed 77 trips of this planet

Re: [Emc-users] tool changing question

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Alan Battersby alan.batter...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi, I understand that I can add an M6 code at some point in my gcode program to manually change a tool. But I want to be able to temporarily stop the program when necessary in order to sharpen a cutter.

Re: [Emc-users] D510 EPP problem

On 08/25/2011 04:59 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello, gentlemen! I am having difficulties with getting Mesa 7i43 card working on D510 board. I have set parport to EPP in BIOS. I have checked it at least 4 times. But dmesg shows: [    8.962720] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] I

Re: [Emc-users] interactive robotic painting machine, and thanks

Rather OT for this list, but, why have you not posted this to hackaday.com? You have constructed a very impressive piece of work. Kyle -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user

Re: [Emc-users] Emc vs modern lcd monitors

I will throw this out there and see what happens. Gene, have you ever been to phoronix.com? They cover open source drivers for video cards from time to time. Including more often than not the drivers for ATI cards. I wish I could say look at driver xxx.x, but I don't really know which one is

Re: [Emc-users] holes that aren't pefectly round

Rather than hole cutting to start with, maybe you could mount a pen and make sure everything 'prints' square/round? -- FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin

Re: [Emc-users] Debounce within Hal Component?

Is there any reason to not debounce the relay with something like a capacitor? -- FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy to use, easy to

Re: [Emc-users] OT: KVMs

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Peter Loron pet...@standingwave.org wrote: Synergy is very handy if you have a monitor for each box. -Pete I purchased long vga cables and a 4 port vga switch that gave me a connection to a single monitor.

Re: [Emc-users] OT: KVMs

Have you given any thought or looks at a program called Synergy(http://synergy-foss.org/)? -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with

Re: [Emc-users] Old ssh -Y problem is back

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:04 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Yes, I put up with gnome on ubuntu, usually long enough to find a konsole apt-get install kde.  Finding the konsole can be a chore though, gnome doesn't want its users to use a konsole, so every new release seems to hide

Re: [Emc-users] OT -- Ethernet thermometer?

For simple short distance wireless communication, use a small 8 pin uC, arduino is overkill, purchase a tx/rx 315MHz or 433MHz pair, a one wire thermometer and voila, data. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com wrote: Andy, I want to measure temperature in my chicken

Re: [Emc-users] OT -- Ethernet thermometer?

One suggestion based on automotive racing, orient the thermometer so that the preferred temp range is straight up. That way a quick glance will tell you whether it is warm enough or not. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: Look at the bright side... perhaps you can get

Re: [Emc-users] Jogging non-trivial kins with joypad

I would only ask, is there a concern with using a wireless device in a shop setting to control your welding arm? It would seem to me that dragging a cable around would bring more safety that worrying about a stray radio signal causing the robot to go nuts.

Re: [Emc-users] Newbie w/mobo question

Neil, you already have a system that functions. If you need a windows machine, would you not be well enough off to just utilize it for your windows based software? -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 LiveCD torrent?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Peter Loron pet...@standingwave.org wrote: No worries, man. Lemme know when the torrent is up and I'll help seed it. I wonder if this mailing list allows for attached files. If this doesn't work let me know and I will attempt something else.

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 LiveCD torrent?

It has been suggested in the IRC channel that I try a magnet link instead. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:021D79BDDE84BC272A9F714F74F822BC7C237800dn=ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.isotr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80/announce Maybe that will work?

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 LiveCD torrent?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Kyle Kerr ker...@gmail.com wrote: It has been suggested in the IRC channel that I try a magnet link instead. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:021D79BDDE84BC272A9F714F74F822BC7C237800dn=ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.isotr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80/announce Maybe

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 LiveCD torrent?

Please ignore the torrent file. Just use the most recently posted magnet link. I am very new to sharing files via bittorrent. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 LiveCD torrent?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Kim Kirwan k...@kimkirwan.com wrote: Hi Kyle, I was able to join your earlier (attached) torrent as a seeder, but the magnet link is not looking good for me, anyone else? Downloading From :magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eebd5ddae35ed3f9a0438efd0afbea467f456af1...

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 LiveCD torrent?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: I can't seem to find a torrent for downloading the EMC2 Live disk. Torrent is my preferred way, due to the bad network connection and torrent will 'survive' multiple outages. Thanks ... Jack If you are patient and will tell

Re: [Emc-users] estop switch question

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote: Simple answer is to make the on/off switch down there a toggle switch. Thats how ours is done, when the saw gets down there it flips the toggle switch off, when you want to turn it back on you flip the same switch to

Re: [Emc-users] Preview on a robot arm

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:38 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: It's mm, not inches, I expect. 39 inches/min is nothing to sneeze at. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men

Re: [Emc-users] Preview on a robot arm

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, andy pugh It's mm, not inches, I expect. 39 inches/min is nothing to sneeze at. 1mm/min is 390 in/min. Even less to sneeze at. DOH! damn decimal :P -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men

Re: [Emc-users] Vacuum table

Have you given any thought to peg board, a frame, and a shop vac? On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, R. van Twisk e...@rvt.dds.nl wrote: Viesturs, I know a number of people on the Mechmate forum do have experiences in that area including photo's and type of vacuum systems used. Ries On Apr

Re: [Emc-users] Vacuum table

Have you given any thought to peg board, a frame, and a shop vac? On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, R. van Twisk e...@rvt.dds.nl wrote: Viesturs, I know a number of people on the Mechmate forum do have experiences in that area including photo's and type of vacuum systems used. Ries On Apr

Re: [Emc-users] installing EMC in Ubuntu10.4

I have to second Brian's suggestion, especially on AMD systems. Do a little digging related to the system you have and installing Ubuntu 10.04 in stock configuration. I have a system or two that require NOAPIC and/or NOLAPIC(sp?). On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:52 PM, BRIAN GLACKIN

Re: [Emc-users] installing EMC in Ubuntu10.4

One other small suggestion would be to burn as slow as possible. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 17:00 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: Hi all,  I have a  a dell computer with XP in it.I downloaded EMC with Ubuntu 10.04 and

Re: [Emc-users] Android powered touch screen tablets

Yes, the G1 supports wifi, 802.11b. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Mark mpic...@gmail.com wrote: Once people start getting rid of their old android phones, you'll be able to pick up used ones pretty cheap.  I don't know if the G1 supports wifi, but I think just about every android device

Re: [Emc-users] DraftSight for linux, free beta

I think I need to start from square one.  But, before I put a lot of effort into this, is there such a thing as a .dwg to .ngc converter? If you can output dxf files, Inkscape may be able to read it in and output gcode for you. There is even a page in the linuxcnc wiki that shows how to get

Re: [Emc-users] Chips on Flash

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Brian Pitt b...@earthlink.net wrote: it does but its horribly slow because of the latency issues here's what I got using Hughes satellite service bash-3.1$ ping google.com PING google.com (74.125.227.17) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 74.125.227.17:

Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:16 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:14:12 pm Kyle Kerr did opine: Another option to look at/fool around with is Google sketchup. I am having no troubles running it in wine. There is even a plugin to output gcode called

Re: [Emc-users] Google sketchup 8 question

Sorry Gene, I failed to mention the point about after it crashing the first time you need to run 'wine regedit' and update a dword. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp8\GLConfig\Display] HW_OK=dword:0001 I am sorry I forgot to mention that. Kyle

Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:12 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:07:57 pm andy pugh did opine: On 1 March 2011 20:19, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in,

Re: [Emc-users] Scan to G-Code

pstoedit is a command line program that will convert postscript files to many other vector based graphic types. One of which is dxf. Kyle On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de wrote: I would like to find a program that would allow me to sketch a part on paper, run it

Re: [Emc-users] Multiplexers

After seeing that this thread was about a smoker, I remembered seeing a posting on hackaday.com that mentioned a smoker and followed the link to the guys site that built it. He is, I believe, using a DS18B20 temp sensor for his smoker.

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 and Ethernet [AT5NM10-I]

I know I have missed out on the list for a good long time, but, I thought I recalled that usb read/writes were the worst thing one could try to do while using EMC2. I realize that it was done as stress testing. I just thought those read/writes were pretty much suggested to be avoided as they