I just wanted to say that I agree with this decision! EMC was always
too short, and such a common letter combination to make an effective
search term on the internet. LinuxCNC is also much more descriptive of
the software's purpose as Chris' message said.
It's sort of a milestone for this project
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:15:32 +0200
Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro wrote:
As of the lists, maybe it would be worth taking the opportunity to
move them to linuxcnc.org (and get rid of these pesky ads).
If nothing else, this. See? Yet another improvement to our collective
condition!
One other
I confess that I don't read the mailing lists, or IRC on a regular
basis. This morning I was searching the user's list for some information
when I came upon the thread about the name change. I had made some
early comments on this subject, then paid no more attention.
After reading some of the
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:22:35 -0700
Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
I've been looking at the Mesa 5i25 and wondered if Smart Serial is
compatible with Modbus?
AFAIK, they're two completely different things. Modbus is really a
protocol that can be used over different types of
and any reasons for your interest in this code, that would be very
helpful.
Please also speak up if you have an interest in studying the algorithms
in the existing Fortran with an eye towards reimplementing them in
another programming language.
Thanks,
Matt Shaver
On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:28:03 -0400
Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote:
Is APT 4 SSX 8 in similar bits and pieces?
I haven't seen much of it, but I suspect that it's a lot better and
AFAIK, all in Fortran. I had the same sort of reaction to the IBM360
version myself, not to disparage in
1. When executing the HAL command, loadrt motmod ... I can use the
arguments base_period_nsec=value, servo_period_nsec=value, and
traj_period_nsec=value, but I can't use num_joints=value,
num_dio=value, or num_aio=value (I get unknown symbol in
module in the error report). These module
The UPDATING page in the wiki says:
1.10. Classicladder
when loading classicladder user program, only load it once with or
without --nogui option. loading it twice will cause the symbols window
to not work properly, though the ladder program will run fine.
When I use --nogui it works as
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 16:07 -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
Matt Shaver wrote:
1. When executing the HAL command, loadrt motmod ... I can use the
arguments base_period_nsec=value, servo_period_nsec=value, and
traj_period_nsec=value, but I can't use num_joints=value,
num_dio=value
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 23:54 +0300, Alex Joni wrote:
Depending on the emc2 version you have it can be named max_joints.
(that was the old name before the 2.2.x release branch).
So if you still run a 2.1.x emc2 you'd get a problem.
But if you want to make sure just use modinfo
Does anyone (or non-human cyber-entity) build nightly .deb files based
on CVS? I'm mainly thinking of Dapper, but Hardy will likely be handy in
the future.
My purpose is to be able to have easy to install updates or hot fixes,
in between released versions if required, without
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 00:09 +, Chris Morley wrote:
Matt:
What version of EMC are you using? I think I fixed that problem in
version 2.2.
2.1.7 Sorry, I had thought it was 2.2.x... I've got a few problems with
third party software to solve so that I can upgrade the system I'm
working on to
I've been doing a lot of studying on EMC in the last few days (you can
tell from the stream of stupid questions flowing from my e-mail address)
and I see that every other part of the system has HAL pins except the
task planner. I've noticed that halui provides a HAL to NML bridge, but
if the task
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 09:46 -0400, John Kasunich wrote:
I don't see HAL and NML as doing the same thing, and I certainly
wouldn't propose HAL pins for the task planner.
I see your point. The HAL is what you said, not an IPC method, at least
not an intentional one. I guess I like it because
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:43 -0400, Matt Shaver wrote:
sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-rtai
I hope this is right, as I am about to reboot and try it, so if I'm
never heard from again...
OK, alive again! And on the RTAI kernel! After using the script to
install EMC2
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 23:23 +0300, Alex Joni wrote:
Therefor we made some meta packages which always depend on the latest
package names (linux-ubuntu-modules-hardy-rtai should always depend on the
latest lum package).
That's ideal! Except apt couldn't find linux-ubuntu-modules-hardy-rtai.
I
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 08:53 -0500, Ray Henry wrote:
I've still got a bunch of blank CDs that are printed with the BDI image
produced for us by Rab Gordon and printed at my expense. I don't use
them for public distribution any more but I still like the looks of that
disk.
I did some work for
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 20:16 +0100, Leslie Newell wrote:
As I cannot afford to support packages for every Linux distro, I am
using Autopackage which should install on most reasonably up to date
distros.
Any possibility of posting a tarball, or of compiling from source? My
problem here is that
I put this on the wiki page as well, but I thought I'd make this request
on-list as well. I'm looking for the following things:
1. Copies of ANSI, CENELEC, FM, IEC, ISO, OSHA, NFPA electrical and/or
machine tool safety standards, European [Economic] Community Directives
(EC or EEC), European
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:18 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
I don't think there is truly ONE way to do things. You pretty
much have to use safety-rated controls from Pilz, Crouzet,
Schaffner, Faulhaber, etc., and then set them up so they can
function correctly to stop motion, even after a component
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 11:50 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
John Kasunich wrote:
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
John Kasunich wrote:
What's a use case where it's valuable to read/write the modules separately?
If I get the drift of this conversation (and that's always questionable)
I think
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 20:50 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Nope, i'm off by 10. 5 us/step is 200K steps/second. The
stepgen.maxvel of 10 inches/second is too high but the trajectory
planner's MAX_VELOCITY of 4.8 inches/second should be fine.
Nevermind me,
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:32 -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Matt Shaver wrote:
Are you good now, or still getting following errors?
I think I'm OK now. I made the base period, servo period and trajectory
period all the same (like the book says) and things seem good now. This
week I should
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:06 -0400, Peter Boyer wrote:
1) Is there some other similar form of latency that would cause this
same problem?
4) What is ACPI and APM? (I have not attempted to turn it off yet.)
I don't know if this will help, but go into the BIOS setup and make sure
that USB
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 08:50 -0500, Chris Radek wrote:
I see from the log that Alex added STG1 (but not STG2) index support
in Jan 2007 so all 2.2.x versions of EMC2 will have this code. In
distant memory I think I remember a report that it worked - was it
Matt Shaver maybe? Alex's log
When is a user variable, such as the ones in JohnK's program here:
http://jmkasunich.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/shoptask/fusee-1.html
actually saved to the .var file? A fellow recently reported to me that
his variables weren't saved between runs of EMC2. I haven't tested this
myself yet, but I was
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:42 -0500, Chris Radek wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:16:21PM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
Any var that exists in the var file at startup will be saved, but I
don't think that new ones are created in the file. So if you set
#4327=1 in your G-code, but
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:13 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
Contact Matt Shaver about his puppy Linux with EMC. I think it fits
on a thumb drive from several years ago.
You can also just trim it yourself, with the apt-get remove command.
But, who cares, unless you need to run EMC2 from a 1 GB
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:54 +0200, Dave Houghton wrote:
There is a distro called Puppy Linux is this the same you are talking about?
Yes. It's a very unique distribution that was created from (I think)
Mandrake originally, but now bears no resemblance to any other
distribution. It has a lot of
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:27 +0200, Dave Houghton wrote:
Thanks for you're reply and help, I'll soon know what I'm talking about.
Well, that'll make one of us!
Thanks,
Matt
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On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:00 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
It can go to pci and post-pci internal busses using intelligent cards
like the mesa 5i20. (this is the path I personally favor)
I'm kind of hoping for pci express over cable:
http://www.onestopsystems.com/pcie_over_cable.html
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 23:13 -0500, John Kasunich wrote:
The Mach manual says In Absolute it will, of course usually be
necessary to use both I and J words unless by chance the arc's centre is
at the origin. So Mach is using zero if you don't specify I or J (or
K, depending on the plane).
I
I spoke with Steve Stallings today, and he pointed me to this thread on
the Sherline stepper drive problems some of you guys are having. I
worked on this problem in late June of 2003.
Right before Sherline started shipping machines they tested them for
repeatability using a 3d contouring program
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:45 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
Is it possible your STEP and DIR inputs have optocouplers returned to 5V?.
This is known problem with the 5I20 (or any of our FPGA cards) outputs since
they only swing 0 to 3.3V.
I think this is the problem based upon page 45 of the
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 11:08 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
So, does anyone know
it there is a dumbed-down network protocol stack for real time?
http://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2002-November/001446.html
http://aschauf.landshut.org/fh/linux/udp_vs_raw/index.html
Not a specific answer, but a lead
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 08:34 -0600, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Let me know what {and how :) }to do this.
Maybe start EMC from a terminal:
$ emc 11.txt 22.txt
This should redirect stdout and stderr to files. You can later look at
them in an editor, or view them as they are created in another
I have a lathe that has an automated tool turret, which I had working
with a version of TRUNK several months ago. I cvs updated my copy of
TRUNK and recompiled yesterday and I now have a problem in
Classicladder. I have one S32 input to Classicladder which is connected
to the tool prep number from
I've been using the 5i20 to generate step pulses for these drives:
http://www.mattshaver.com/kc6/DriveYKA2608MG-H.pdf
It works great, smooth as oiled Teflon on glass!
Relevant config files:
http://www.mattshaver.com/kc6/kc6.ini
http://www.mattshaver.com/kc6/kc6.hal
The problem is, I get
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:34 -0600, Chris Radek wrote:
Created new variables IW and QW to represent S32 in and out pins
instead of mapping them to W variables. Defaults to ten of each.
Aligns us with mainsteam Classicladder. ladder programs will need to
be updated, HAL files
So as not to let this thread die off with no outcome reported, I did get
the toolchanger running again by using %IW instead of %W for the tool
prep number.
One issue here is that the Vars button doesn't show these new
variables. Probably a third window is needed after bit vars and
internal word
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 22:14 +, Chris Morley wrote:
As for the vertical bar the way to erase it was to place it again. The eraser
didn't work on the vertical bar but is fixed now.
I almost didn't mention this because I was able to erase one of the
vertical connectors with the version in
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 15:51 -0800, John Figie wrote:
P5LP-LE
According to this manual:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/16022/Screenshots/leonite_manual.PDF
this board has integrated graphics that share main memory with the CPU.
My guess is that's your problem.
Thanks,
Matt
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 00:37 +, Leslie Newell wrote:
Does anyone know how the charge pump works in emc? I am using the
stepconf wizard and have set pin 1 as charge pump output. However when I
run emc, I never get any charge pump output.
Is the enable pin set TRUE? With emc running, start
I will say that I've posted messages that never showed up. I've always
just said, Oh well..., but I thought you guys should know. Also the
time from sending a message to when it shows up on the list can be
anywhere from a few minutes to more than a day.
Thanks,
Matt
Why do you want this?
If your idea is to incorporate some of the public domain code into a
closed source product, then I would _highly recommend_ that you obtain
this directly from NIST. Alternatively, I believe I still have some old
source files that I know are 100% the product of US government
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 21:38 -0800, Rafael Skodlar wrote:
No modern PC with water cooling, tons of LEDs, or shiny fans look as
good as PDP-8 or PDP-11/44 front panels. You could tell what system was
doing just by looking at LEDs.
I know what you mean, I started my computer career in 1981
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:42 -0600, sam sokolik wrote:
He came - he saw - he made hostmot2 a reality.
EMC is now even more flexible. (hard to believe - I know)
I'm with Sam! Sebastian would be a good board member!
Thanks,
Matt
Dale Grover, a friend of mine, is getting his mill up and running using
EMC2 and he wrote up a tutorial covering the whole job setup process in
AXIS and EMC2. He wasn't sure where to put it, so I stuck it in a new
wiki page:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?MillSetup
Thanks,
Matt
I can start gmoccapy in two different ways, either DISPLAY = gmoccapy,
or DISPLAY = gscreen -c gmoccapy. However these seem to be two somewhat
different programs, both called gmoccapy :)
My questions are:
1. Most of the docs I can find relate to the DISPLAY = gmoccapy version.
Is there
I'm working with gmoccapy and there is a _long_ number displayed in the
Tool information area of the screen. See: http://imagebin.org/304304
Anyone have an idea of what this could be? It doesn't happen when I run
sim/gmoccapy, so it must be something in my configuration, but I'd love
a clue :)
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:30:03 +0200
Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za wrote:
You have to look at the [TRAJ] section of the ini file and change the
entry MAX_LINEAR_VELOCITY = xxx to MAX_VELOCITY = xxx
THANKS! This fixed the screen artifact problem!
Did you have a look at the wiki for
I'm using the latest 2.6-pre version from the buildbot and when I
enable the aux acreen I get the following error the next time I start
linuxcnc:
http://www.mattshaver.com/error.png
Any ideas on this?
Also, are there any articles or online writeups on extending gmoccapy
with glade and the user
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:08:55 -0500
Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net wrote:
Second, once resolved that message will probably indicate that it's
the 'window2' attrbute that cannot be found. I guess this 'window2'
is expected to be somewhere in the glade file. Perhaps the main
widget in the
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:31:37 +0200
Niemand Sonst nie...@web.de wrote:
I just took a look and fixed the error.
THANKS!!! I'll try it out in a few minutes.
Is there documentation or a tutorial, or examples of aux screens for
gmoccapy? I am very familiar with pyvcp and want to be able to do
I've experienced some behavior that might be a bug. The relevant
information can be found at:
http://www.mattshaver.com/gas/
Running the CAP.TAP program results in the motion depicted in
Screenshot.png. Adding a G61 or G64 P0.005 to the program produces a
trajectory that closely follows the
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:58:55 -0400
Robert Ellenberg rwe...@gmail.com wrote:
As Sam ant Todd mentioned, the large deviations from the path are
expected given your settings.
Thanks you guys! I know what I need to do...
Matt
Steve Stallings and I are coming, and I figure Jon Elson will probably
show up as he's a vendor. I think Jeff Epler said he couldn't make it
this year on account of prior engagements. How about the rest of you?
Hoping to see you soon,
Matt
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:40:23 -0400
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Thanks, Steve, but I'm not so fond of those lng drives anymore.
Steve I share the driving, so it's not too bad. We drove back from
Stuart's place in Kansas back to Virginia (Steve) and Maryland (Me) a
few years back
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:50:37 -0700
Clint Washburn cl...@clintandheidi.com wrote:
Does this make sense to anyone? Has anyone used this type of
classic-ladder program for their tool-changer? Does anyone have
an .clp program that would illustrate how to go about this so I can
get an idea of
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:35:22 -0400
Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote:
Does anyone have any experience in testing for condensation issues?
I operate a couple of 802.11 wireless access points outdoors, year
round. They supply my internet service, so they are mission critical.
I'm in Maryland, so temps
I went to lunch the other day with Dale Grover and Bob Stack, both of
the A2 MechShop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dale asked me about this year's
CNC Workshop which he usually attends, and I told him of the situation
with Roland and Cardinal Engineering. I had also remarked that Ann Arbor
has a very
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 20:34 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
I'm pretty sure i'll make it to the Fest, at least the weekend days.
If Sebastian goes, I'll go. I could use some help though; I need to
convince Steve Stallings to go because then we can split the driving
hotel (it's 1200+
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 09:47 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Rob Jansen wrote:
Are there any 5i20 / stepper motor users out there? and are there any
sample HAL configurations to use as a start?
I googled around a bit but did not find what I was looking for.
Matt Shaver is using a 5i20
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:33 -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
I found a $39.95/night price. I may be able to find cheaper. There
are some for $150.00/wk. I will continue looking. I will go see some
of them. All are within 10 miles of here - most within 5 miles.
Now you're talking!
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:10 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
In the awesome future, the hm2 stepgen will have a mode where it blindly
follows the trajectory planner's command, trusting it to accelerate in a
reasonable way.
I eagerly await the awesome future!
I did get a chance to test the
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:38 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Are you running with the hm2 stepgen's maxvel and maxaccel 5% higher
than the TP's [AXIS_?]MAX*, and still getting following errors?
I just looked at the particular .ini and .hal files, and, I am sad to
report, no. I was in a big
of cvs?
Just curious.
I know s/w like winrunner (and the like) are pricey but they do automate
build testing. Maytbe someone from one of these companies could donate to
the emc cause?
Thanks,
Alan
-Original Message-
From: Matt Shaver [mailto:m...@mattshaver.com]
Sent
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 01:17 -0700, Michael Hendricks wrote:
I have to ask the gurus before I go insane...Is there a good open source
CAM SW package out there?
The avant-garde favor:
http://code.google.com/p/heekscnc/
To gain the maximum benefit you'll need to build this from the latest
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 08:53 -0400, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
The keys just don't have enough tactile resistance to them, or maybe
weight is the word. It just doesn't feel like I'm typing something,
rather I'm just pushing buttons.
What you want is a buckling spring keyboard. Buy one
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:27 +0100, Andy Pugh wrote:
Most of the dimensions for the general geometry were +/- 0.2mm except
for the flexural element, which was 0.2mm +/- 0.05mm dimensioned from
a face with a stacked-up positional tolerance of about 0.4mm.
The machinist set up his CNC mill to the
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 06:28 +0200, Haberler Michael wrote:
a suggestion (for lathe mode): how about indicating wether radius or
diameter mode is in effect by either displaying an icon next to radius
or diameter values in the DRO, or maybe different fonts/colors?
I was thinking that the
Dear EMC Users,
Here is some information from my vast network of informants!
Thanks,
Matt
Forwarded Message
From: Keith Mc
Subject: [GO-Tech] DM CNC Workshop AT WCC - 6/22/10-6.25/10
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:47:05 + (GMT)
The full CNC Workshop (like the one that
Whether this will mean anything for folks like us who need a high speed,
_low latency_ I/O connection will depend upon the details of the
controller:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/26/report-apple-pushed-intel-to-develop-light-peak-cabling/
So far, I haven't seen any in depth technical
1 The medical grade RFI filters have a much smaller capacitance between
line and ground, and usually have more series inductance. It can be
tough to find medical style line filters with high current ratings.
Plus, they're expensive...
2. I recently spoke with an engineer from North Shore Safety
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:27:27 -0600
Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote:
I have extensively used a (non-EMC) machine that requires a rehome
after estop. In at least one case I can remember, I had a crazy setup
that was in the way of homing. If I had estopped during that job, it
would have
You could try sending an e-mail to this gentleman:
Will Slota will.sl...@mastercam.com
He was helping a client of mine get an EMC lathe post processor going
for the latest version of Mastercam might be able to help you as
well. No promises here, but he's a nice guy and might welcome another
EMC
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:19:54 +0200
Roland Jollivet roland.jolli...@gmail.com wrote:
You re-coup money in the shavings.
This is the key to what's being said here. Let's say two manufacturers
make the same fitting starting with the same size brass blank.
1. They both sell it for the same wholesale
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:59:06 -0700
Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote:
The 5i2* series of cards do fine without DMA since they sit right on
the PCI bus, but the 3x20 would *really* benefit from DMA because it
sits behind an on-board PCIE-to-PCI bridge.
I just got the whole 3x20 setup
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:28:06 -0800
Neil Baylis neil.bay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk
wrote:
Do you know for sure that your current card does not work with EMC?
No. I'm just going by the dire warnings I've seen in the EMC wiki.
I
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:09:12 -0600
Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote:
Hi folks, I want to show off the new control panel i made for my mill!
Nice looking! I notice that you are using the jog knob from the old
Bridgeport E control panel. Are you also using the old panel mount
encoder?
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:09:30 -0700 (PDT)
Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote:
Pretty sure Pico Systems cards use EPP interface not ECP so I'd try
that. The BIOS should give you the base address. Dont think lspci
will list the parallel port as its not a PCI device on the D510 (it a
LPC
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:01:37 +
Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
The 7i47 might or might not be right for this job. I get lost in a
maze of product codes all alike.
The 7i47 is an RS422 board with 12 (always enabled) transmitters and 12
receivers. It will work, or I am likely to
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:51:51 -0800
Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
Here is my latest stab at an all analog charge pump:
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/chpmp-5a.png
I'm thinking the opto-isolator on the input might be a good thing, but
using an IC for one
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:19:20 -0400
Steve Stallings steve...@newsguy.com wrote:
The BeBoPr board looks interesting, but it seems
like it is not currently possible to purchase one.
This is what it looks like to me. I didn't do an exhaustive search, but
I couldn't buy one to take to Wichita.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:14:51 +0100
andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I don't see any real incentive to stop using generic PCs.
The incentives are:
1. Cost cutting - $25-$45 total for the host computer. Compare this to
a MiniITX board + RAM +CPU (if not soldered on) + power supply
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:55:17 -0500
Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote:
Is there a consensus about BeagleBone vs. Raspberry Pi?
I feel the need to defend the Pi, Cubie, Olimex, et al boards, since it
appears that no one else will :)
Several areas of concern are worthy of our attention,
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:05:41 +0200
Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
Am 29.04.2013 um 20:16 schrieb Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com:
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:55:17 -0500
Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote:
Is there a consensus about BeagleBone vs. Raspberry Pi?
I feel
On Thu, 02 May 2013 00:47:13 -0400
Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com wrote:
I'm looking for a robust method to connect a LinuxCNC device to a
WiFi network. I bought some inexpensive USB dongles that are
advertised as plug-and-play on Linux, but they didn't work with
LinuxCNC.
I don't
1. Does this machine have Trak sensors? These are devices that ride
along the table (X) and saddle area (Y) and have cables that attach to
the system. These are electronic Trav-a-dials.
2. These systems were very popular back in that time (late 80's early
90's). The motors are brushed DC servos.
On Wed, 8 May 2013 13:49:59 +0100
andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 May 2013 13:17, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote:
B. My best advise would be to see if you can adapt a standard
NEMA 34 (or 42) stepper motor to the mounting scheme on your
machine. If so, build a new
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:32:34 +0200
Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I would love to have a reason for southern Germany. :)
Any time frame on this? I live in the US and have never been overseas,
but this sounds like a good time to me ;) If you are thinking about
next week or next month,
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:05 +0200
Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
Mostly because we're a bunch of knuckleheads. Is this you?
https://www.facebook.com/sven.wesley I ask because if it is, you
probably don't live in the US (if you're
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:35:55 +0100
andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Should I CNC it?
By asking this question the way you did, it's obvious that you
understand the problem. That said, you may not be able to achieve the
very high level of tastefulness de rigueur in a project like this. It's
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:07:20 -0500
Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote:
Why do you use LinuxCNC and what are the features you like best?
...
Help me out with some talking points! :)
It's similar to the reason I use Linux (I guess, considering the reasons
I'm about to give, I
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:37:58 -0500
Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote:
I mostly agree with Matt except I have found thought investment is
usually pretty portable.
Linuxcnc is fun and flexible. That is the only 'reason' needed. :)
That's true for me too.
Most of the writing I've done
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:39:22 -0400
Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com wrote:
On 06/13/2013 07:07 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
Why do you use LinuxCNC and what are the features you like best?
One of my favorite features is the fact that LinuxCNC is Free Open
Source Software,
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:42:06 -0500
Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote:
My first reaction is how could this be necessary?
Are they not wanting/able to capture a file to feed to the control?
I am having trouble imagining a computer so small or a program so
large as to need drip feed.
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:00:57 -0400
Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com wrote:
On 06/26/2013 12:06 AM, Matt Shaver wrote:
When the 3D folks discover that they need offsets or homing, or any
of the other features of linuxcnc, we'll be there to help.
That's what I plan to demonstrate: get
I hope we announced this sufficiently in advance, but there's a meeting
on IRC now (Saturday the 29th of June, 2013 - 4:00pmGMT/9:00amEST).
Come help us argue! :)
Thanks,
Matt
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Jun 2013 09:01:00 -0400
Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote:
I hope we announced this sufficiently in advance, but there's a
meeting on IRC now (Saturday the 29th of June, 2013 -
4:00pmGMT/9:00amEST). Come help us argue! :)
Thanks,
Matt
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