Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 October 2013 21:53:51 Steve Blackmore did opine: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:38:34 -0400, you wrote: > >A word to you folks who are lucky enough to have a "surplus" of white > >ash. It, to me is not firewood, but some of the most strikingly > >beautiful furniture wood extant. Its also v

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread andy pugh
On 28 October 2013 01:41, Steve Blackmore wrote: > BTW some of the nicest wood grains I've ever worked with have come from > diseased Elm and Sycamore ;) Spalted Beech is lovely. http://www.creative-woodturning.com/images/vases/spalted_beech_vase1.jpg -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:38:34 -0400, you wrote: >A word to you folks who are lucky enough to have a "surplus" of white ash. >It, to me is not firewood, but some of the most strikingly beautiful >furniture wood extant. Its also very strong & machines well in the wood >shop. Once dry, it seems

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC on Ubuntu and BeagleBone

2013-10-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 10/27/13 18:41, Condit Alan wrote: > I have grown accustomed to Ubuntu and find learning yet another GUI to be a > pain. > > (Says he who has never compiled linuxCNC from scratch) How much trouble is it > to compile > LinuxCNC for BeagleBone on Ubuntu rather than Debian Wheezy? Compiling Li

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC on Ubuntu and BeagleBone

2013-10-27 Thread Condit Alan
I have grown accustomed to Ubuntu and find learning yet another GUI to be a pain. (Says he who has never compiled linuxCNC from scratch) How much trouble is it to compile LinuxCNC for BeagleBone on Ubuntu rather than Debian Wheezy? Which version of Ubuntu would one use to be compatible with th

Re: [Emc-users] Fanuc 420F 6-axis robot

2013-10-27 Thread Duesentrieb Yahoo
thanks for the video. before I can home I have to move first. lol what drivers/controller board do you have on this? -- On Sun, 27 Oct, 2013 9:57 AM PDT Chris Radek wrote: >On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:36:48PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: >> LinuxCNC has a mechanism to h

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 October 2013 17:13:45 Dave Cole did opine: > On 10/27/2013 10:43 AM, dave wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 10:20 -0400, Dave Cole wrote: > >> On 10/19/2013 7:56 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > >>> It's the working poor that don't have health care. > >> > >> Exactly..And the number of wo

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread Dave Cole
On 10/27/2013 10:43 AM, dave wrote: > On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 10:20 -0400, Dave Cole wrote: >> On 10/19/2013 7:56 AM, Eric Keller wrote: >>> It's the working poor that don't have health care. >> Exactly..And the number of working poor in the US is climbing at a >> rapid rate..I know a bunch o

Re: [Emc-users] Fanuc 420F 6-axis robot

2013-10-27 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:36:48PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > LinuxCNC has a mechanism to home axes in sequence, and then move > to a particular position offset from the index pulse location. > So, this should allow the machine to be homed safely from most > positions. This is how we set up homin

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-27 Thread dave
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 19:27 +0100, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 October 2013 19:00, Tomaz T. wrote: > > Does anyone here have any experience with chinese motorized rotary stages, > > like this one: > > http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/615993083/LSDH_100WS_Worm_gear_motorized_rotary.html > > The max

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread dave
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 10:20 -0400, Dave Cole wrote: > On 10/19/2013 7:56 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > > It's the working poor that don't have health care. > > Exactly..And the number of working poor in the US is climbing at a > rapid rate..I know a bunch of them and before they lost their goo

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-27 Thread dave
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 13:06 -0400, Dave Cole wrote: > A few years ago my wife was in the ICU for 10 days and then a regular > room for about another 10 days, almost lost her. Since then she has > recovered nicely. :-) > > About a month later, we got a big envelope with from the hospital with

Re: [Emc-users] Fanuc 420F 6-axis robot

2013-10-27 Thread andy pugh
On 27 October 2013 03:48, Jon Elson wrote: > Possibly. To use my (Pico Systems) gear, you would need our encoder > converter > board, as the commutation signals from the encoder are not industry > standard. > They provide 4 signals that give a Gray code approximation of absolute rotor > position

Re: [Emc-users] Fanuc 420F 6-axis robot

2013-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 October 2013 05:45:34 Jon Elson did opine: > andy pugh wrote: > > On 26 October 2013 21:09, Jon Elson wrote: > >> The ABS encoders, if battery backup > >> is provided, apparently put out a burst of quadrature pulses to > >> revolve the apparent position to the offset from the index