Re: [Emc-users] USB Pendant (XHC HB04)

2013-06-22 Thread f1oat
Pete Matos writes: > > Ooh that's pretty! Too bad its USB and probably won't work on linuxCNC...? > I'd love to have something like that on my Cincinatti Arrow retrofit. > > Pete > I have developed a HAL module for this kind of MPG pendant. Look at http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/f

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I am busy with mine at this very moment. What I did to overcome the quill issues was to remove the hand wheel and spring assembly and fit a motor with reduction directly to the shaft that turns the quill up and down. Mine has a very tight fit and no noticable backlash. The small hand wheel on t

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Oh and I used the spring to balance the quill. The calculated spec - with 4:1 ratio is 0.012mm. More than enough I think On 2013/06/21 11:02 PM, Tomaz T. wrote: > I'm thinking about converting my jet jmd-18 mill/drill with round column, but > thing that worries me the most right from the start i

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel card options for LinuxCNC

2013-06-22 Thread Lars Andersson
Try setting "legacy USB support" (or similar) in the bios setup. It might get the wireless kbd working right from start. > I tried the pcisetup program tonight in the hope of getting the > DB25-1205 breakout board inputs working on my CNC router with the D525MW > motherboard. No luck. I did the

[Emc-users] Image Burnt But CD Won't Boot

2013-06-22 Thread martinberry
Hello group. I'm new to this forum, CNC and Linux, so please excuse my relative ignorance on all fronts. I'm in need of some assistance as I've run out of ideas on how to resolve this problem: I've downloaded the live disc image (ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc.i386.iso) and done the checksum – everythi

Re: [Emc-users] Image Burnt But CD Won't Boot

2013-06-22 Thread jeremy youngs
i use infra recorder which is afree download and you have to burn the iso image not just burn the file . it has to be an iso to boot PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Fede

Re: [Emc-users] Image Burnt But CD Won't Boot

2013-06-22 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
*NOT* ok:) You do NOT want to burn the image to a CD so that its still one file. It sounds like thats what you did since the "checksum is the same". If you burn it to the CD correctly, the checksum ISN'T the same as there is no one file to even take a checksum on. It extracts into thousands of s

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Tomaz T .
You are saying that you are retrofitting same model of this machine? If there is a chance, I would rally appreciate to see design that you have.   I agree, I was also considering to mount gearing directly on pinion shaft that drives quill up and down, but I think there should be some decent amou

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Its not the exact same picture. Many machines have the exact same frame but has it own branding. Other things that might chance is the start / stop buttons the color of the machine and other small cosmetics. My machine is painted green but believe me, its the same machine. I have seen several v

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 June 2013 08:44:01 Marius Liebenberg did opine: > Its not the exact same picture. Many machines have the exact same frame > but has it own branding. Other things that might chance is the start / > stop buttons the color of the machine and other small cosmetics. My > machine is paint

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Yeah I know. Its a pain. Send me your PM then I will send the files to you directly. Just give me a little time to put something decent together for you. I am just busy with a Chinese conversion of a router box. I will look at it tonight. On 2013/06/22 02:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturda

Re: [Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 June 2013 09:13:28 Marius Liebenberg did opine: > Yeah I know. Its a pain. Send me your PM then I will send the files to > you directly. Just give me a little time to put something decent > together for you. I am just busy with a Chinese conversion of a router > box. I will look at

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel card options for LinuxCNC

2013-06-22 Thread Dave
>>I ended up abandoning the 90 degree shop to sit in the air conditioning and research CAM programs. Find a cheap window air conditioner and install it in your shop/garage. It will change how you work. I left it running last night. This morning after cooling off the shop all night, it was 65

[Emc-users] Round column mill/drill conversion

2013-06-22 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 21 June 2013 23:02, Tomaz T. wrote: > I'm thinking about converting my jet jmd-18 mill/drill with round column, > but thing that worries me the most right from the start is, if Z axis would > be accurate enough. > > There is one solution by reversing quill spring so it is forcing axis all > th

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel card options for LinuxCNC

2013-06-22 Thread andy pugh
On 21 June 2013 22:52, Bruce Layne wrote: > I tried the pcisetup program tonight in the hope of getting the > DB25-1205 breakout board inputs working on my CNC router with the D525MW > motherboard. Is there some confusion here? As far as I know you really do not need EPP for any breakout boards o

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel card options for LinuxCNC

2013-06-22 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/6/22 andy pugh > On 21 June 2013 22:52, Bruce Layne wrote: > > I tried the pcisetup program tonight in the hope of getting the > > DB25-1205 breakout board inputs working on my CNC router with the D525MW > > motherboard. > > Is there some confusion here? As far as I know you really do not n

[Emc-users] BeagleBone Black image not booting for me

2013-06-22 Thread Troy Jacobson
Hi, For the last week, I've been trying to boot the machinekit image with no success. The plain Debian image works fine, but all I get with the machinekit is two blue LEDs. Even though I've been looking over the relavent web pages and posts, I'm sure there is something fairly simple that I've mis

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black image not booting for me

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/22/2013 3:50 PM, Troy Jacobson wrote: > Hi, For the last week, I've been trying to boot the machinekit > image with no success. The plain Debian image works fine, but all > I get with the machinekit is two blue LEDs. > > Even though I've been lo

Re: [Emc-users] BeagleBone Black image not booting for me

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/22/2013 3:50 PM, Troy Jacobson wrote: > Hi, For the last week, I've been trying to boot the machinekit > image with no success. The plain Debian image works fine, but all > I get with the machinekit is two blue LEDs. Hmm...and two lit LEDs (D5 a

[Emc-users] Announce for curious types

2013-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just added another subdir to my web page, called lathe-stf, the base link is to various files, including some rockhopper stuff I can't print, and a subdir off that full of progress pix. Send flowers and/or insults. ;-) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defens

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel card options for LinuxCNC

2013-06-22 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: > > > EPP is not needed for any breakout board, because PPMC and 7i43 are not > just breakout boards, they have FPGA, so they do some more advanced tasks, > like hardware step generation, pwm generation, encoder pulse counting etc. > Actually, not quite true. The Gecko G250

[Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Bart Dring
Hi, I am working with a group of CNC builders at the Chicago HackerSpace Pumping Station One. We are building a "simple" 2D drawing machine. The machine uses 2 belt driven carriages on a single linear bearing. You can see the details of the machine at this link. http://pumpingstationone.org/2013

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 June 2013 19:19, Bart Dring wrote: > 4. Can everything be done in the mykin.c file or do I need to modify other > areas of the HAL. Try this kins file here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Koppi's_Toy -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/22/2013 7:19 PM, Bart Dring wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with a group of CNC builders at the Chicago > HackerSpace Pumping Station One. We are building a "simple" 2D > drawing machine. The machine uses 2 belt driven carriages on a > single linea

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Andrew
2013/6/23 Bart Dring https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=bdr...@buildlog.net> > > There is a link to our kinemantics file at the link above. (We just > modified trivkins.c). At this point I think it has been hacked beyond our > initial successes, to completely broken. > Hi, Fi

Re: [Emc-users] USB Pendant (XHC HB04)

2013-06-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 June 2013 02:36, f1oat wrote: > I have developed a HAL module for this kind of MPG pendant. > Look at > http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/24-hal-components/26679-xhc-hb04-wireless-mpg-pendant-hal-module Would you be interested in adding this to the LinuxCNC distribution? I th