Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-28 Thread TJoseph Powderly
John hello I am sorry I did not specify which iso to use. see https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/ for scheduled expiration dates of Debians see http://www.linuxcnc.org/downloads/ for recommendations and caveats I understand that any search you may have tried likely sent you to the Wheezy version The

Re: [Emc-users] Rockpro64 arrived

2019-04-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
> > I just started it again with the -h option to produce a histogram, now the > max is 62 and the average is 4. > > Alan > > > > > From: TJoseph Powderly > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Rockpro64 arrived > > Date: April 25, 2019 at 9:07:16 PM PDT &g

Re: [Emc-users] ER ATC tool idea

2019-04-18 Thread TJoseph Powderly
about weldon shank https://tinyurl.com/yyxlreku On 04/19/2019 06:52 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: On 19 Apr 2019, at 00:47, Ken Strauss wrote: there is no obvious way that the threads would achieve that level of concentricity. You can still register on the taper. Solid “collets” and off-the-shelf

Re: [Emc-users] ER ATC tool idea

2019-04-18 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Greg thanks On 04/19/2019 08:36 AM, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: The Weldon style has a set screw flat that's angled toward the cutting end. Tighten the set screw on it and the tool is forced upwards until the deeper end of the flat contacts the side of the set screw. That makes

[Emc-users] Fwd: Re: ER ATC tool idea

2019-04-19 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Emc-users] ER ATC tool idea Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:15:50 +0700 From: TJoseph Powderly To: Andy Pugh Gene, On 04/19/2019 06:52 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: On 19 Apr 2019, at 00:47, Ken Strauss wrote: there is no obvious way

Re: [Emc-users] Something to think about re the hack-a-day tool changer

2019-04-18 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Something to think about re the hack-a-day tool changer Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:22:19 +0700 From: TJoseph Powderly To: Gene Heskett Hi Gene On 04/18/2019 10:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 18 April 2019 11

Re: [Emc-users] web site error

2019-05-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On Thu, May 2, 2019, 4:32 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 06:49, Valerio Bellizzomi > wrote: > > > > at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/ > > > Can't locate object method "startform" via package "CGI" at wiki.pl line > > 1501. > > Where does the Wiki live? > > Much of it is so outdated and

[Emc-users] bluing scraping

2019-04-27 Thread TJoseph Powderly
I'm in the boonies and need to scrape somethings flat. Permatex prussian blue is hard to get. But when googling,I always hit upon Winsor Newton Winton Oil 1414538 Prussian Blue 37ml It's an oil paint in a tube (think Van Gogh's Starry Night ) I found some at a local book store that has art

Re: [Emc-users] debian 9 ext4 wont mount on debian 7

2019-04-28 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello reinstalling with ext3 'fixes' it Forwarded Message Subject:debian 9 ext4 wont mount on debian 7 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:24:58 +0700 From: TJoseph Powderly To: emc-users Hello I just installed http://www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt

[Emc-users] debian 9 ext4 wont mount on debian 7

2019-04-28 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello I just installed http://www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/linuxcnc-stretch-uspace-amd64-r13.iso I reformatted a partition as ext4 to hold this installation. Then I made a screenshot of latency-histogram and rebooted to my workhorse debian 7 to compare latencies. I found I could

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC did this too.

2019-07-07 Thread TJoseph Powderly
cool, thank you. was this Linuxcnc ( gcode) or Hal ? I think Hal can do a lot for animatronics and multimedia. TomP On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 9:10 PM Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > Bravissimo! > > El 7 jul. 2019 08:46, "Gene Heskett" escribió: > > > On Sunday 07 July 2019 06:19:22 77...@tiscali.it

Re: [Emc-users] Looking fro some input from the community

2019-04-22 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 04/23/2019 10:07 AM, bari wrote: LSPCI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lspci http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/lspci.htm On 4/22/19 9:03 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Is there a way to show this P info on a running system? lspci -nn gets text and numbers ...snip... 04:00.0 Parallel

Re: [Emc-users] Looking fro some input from the community

2019-04-23 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Joe On 04/23/2019 10:27 PM, Joe Hildreth wrote: Tomp, Can you give me the chipset ID and what IO the card has? (# Parallel Ports and # serial Ports) Joe lspci -vknn reports snip... 04:00.0 Parallel controller [0701]: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O Controller [9710:9865] (prog-if 03

Re: [Emc-users] Looking fro some input from the community

2019-04-23 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Joe its PCI tomp On 04/23/2019 11:18 PM, Joe Hildreth wrote: Tomp, Perfect, the chipset is MCS9865IV and looking at the specification sheet looks like it can be configured in a number of formats. Since yours has a header available for the second PP and no UART populated I just listed it as

Re: [Emc-users] possibly good news for LinuxCNC

2019-04-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Thanks Bari Thanks Alec On 04/24/2019 10:07 PM, bari wrote: The dev that spent years cleaning up and fixing the rtai.org to make it work with LCNC and hosting it at https://github.com/NTULINUX/RTAI just got tired of things. rtai.org would not give him credit and treated him like a pest even

Re: [Emc-users] [Off topic] Might interest Gene, radio pirates.

2019-04-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
and the movie was great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_That_Rocked On 04/25/2019 12:28 AM, andy pugh wrote: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/24/radio-piracy-on-the-high-seas/ tomp ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] Rockpro64 arrived

2019-04-25 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello Alan On 04/26/2019 11:02 AM, Alan Condit wrote: I downloaded the Arabian Stretch nightly image Armbian_5.83.190424_Rockpro64_Debian_stretch_dev_5.0.0.7z . It is running the 5.0.0 kernel

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc-application

2019-07-29 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Aram additive machining using MIG is very interesting I've seen laser welding used to repair expensive blisks for turbines. I dont know about welding though, but I see many people trying to achieve this. these maybe of use: Design And Development Of A Low-Cost 3D Metal Printer

Re: [Emc-users] EDM forms?

2019-07-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
you ask for long lasting that would be tungsten carbide but i suggest using easy to manufacture, easy to find, low cost because it will wear anyway so copper, with little lead ( often copper sold will be 'machineable' which means lead which means higher wear ) for a key way you should be able to

Re: [Emc-users] looking for help on the best way to implement a Latching E stop circuit

2019-08-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
hello i got too many hits with google "linuxcnc classicladder" try ti out, theres docs, beginner tutorial, demos videos discussions hth tomp ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC did this too.

2019-07-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
e, > > > >On 7/9/19 9:21 PM, Davide wrote: > >> > >> Il 8 luglio 2019 05:46:51 CEST, TJoseph Powderly > >ha scritto: > >>> cool, thank you. > >>> was this Linuxcnc ( gcode) or Hal ? > >>> I think Hal can do a lot for animatronics

Re: [Emc-users] Wedding rings vs R8 or ER42 collets.

2019-11-17 Thread TJoseph Powderly
I say Hello Mrs. Gene. Fan DI, Chok di ( sweet dreams and best luck ). tomp On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:52 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > My wife, whose is slowly losing weight, down to the low 70 lbs, meaning > shes a bag of fragile bones. > > And her wedding band has got so loose

Re: [Emc-users] should I be laughing or crying?

2019-10-17 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gene I cant find units comp either, nor can google so far, So write one List all the pins connected to it ( by browsing .hal) then look ar http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/python-interface.html#_linuxcnc_stat_attributes especially program_units (returns integer) - one of

[Emc-users] Fwd: [Emc-developers] hal_pi_gpio.c rpi4 revision c03112

2020-02-16 Thread TJoseph Powderly
fwd to emc-user, sorry i only posted to emc-devs last night this will allow purchasers of new rpi4 (c01112 rev) to use gpio wirh software stepping. -- Forwarded message - From: Thomas J Powderly Date: Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] hal_pi_gpio.c rpi4

[Emc-users] 2020

2019-12-31 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Chok di pi mail! Happy New Year to all. TomP On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 11:59 PM Dave Matthews wrote: > For some reason I didn't get that to work. Looking at what did work > it should have. I may not have hit save or something. > > I found this link on the LinuxCNC > forumshttps:// >

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture

2020-03-16 Thread TJoseph Powderly
niggley bits, "To avoid this problem, either drive loads that are ground referred, Use 3.3V as the VCC for VCC referred loads, or use open drain mode." Please change that capital U to u, Also, beef up the a || b || c logic with 'or use'. "To avoid this problem, either drive

[Emc-users] linuxcnc openlung ventilators

2020-03-23 Thread TJoseph Powderly
How can Linuxcnc people help with OpenLung? https://gitlab.com/open-source-ventilator/OpenLung tomp ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc openlung ventilators

2020-03-23 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Stirling wrote: > > I think this is required reading before jumping on the diy medical device > bandwagon. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-71FJTmI1Q1kjSDLP0EegMERjg_0kk_7UfaRE4r66Mg/edit?usp=drivesdk > > -- Ralph > > On Mar 23, 2020 6:08 AM, TJoseph Powderly w

Re: [Emc-users] Interesting GUI

2020-09-04 Thread TJoseph Powderly
If You are thinking of conversational, you might look at Fanuc Macro B for ideas. Its a tool they had for conversational programming. Pretty old school appearance but the idea of a macro dialog interpreter inside the control was very leading edge in the 80's/ I wrote dialogs for fanuc 8 9 11 in

Re: [Emc-users] SPAM: Re: freecad, latest, starter tut?

2020-09-22 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Stop labelling messages as SPAM HTH can we have topics labelled SPAM this and SPAM that? Stop replying to threads SPAM* ! Who is playing Judge or God here fingering witches? STOP The topics and labels on this list are already _barely_ connected to OP. tomp On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:10 PM Chris

Re: [Emc-users] Working on Pendant and debouncer PCBs, comments welcome.

2020-06-07 Thread TJoseph Powderly
sorry that pic is not an hr33, this is On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:02 AM Chris Albertson wrote: > > I am going to have JLPCB make some PCBs for me. They cost only $2 each but > DHL shipping from China is $25 so it makes sense to wait until I have > several projects ready and give then a batch of

Re: [Emc-users] Working on Pendant and debouncer PCBs, comments welcome.

2020-06-07 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Re pendant. The heidenhain controls use a box with strong magnets on rear. Between the magnets is a deadman switch (suitably runner dome covered for industrial use ) You can slap it onto any flat surface and the deaman is satisfied. You can hold it in your hand,,, left hand... thumb on left side,

Re: [Emc-users] Health update

2020-06-10 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gene please take care you are always full of surprises and remember to take care of yourself so you can take care of the missus! TomP btw my old man got a 4way bypass and a handful of stints 20+ years before he passed .they used his legs as a plumbing supply! On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:32 AM Gene

Re: [Emc-users] Bed isn't flat on my 6040.

2021-01-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hi Gene you can buy Prussian Blue oil paint tube from an art store or internet you can get a pretty good surface plate from a cutout of a kitchen sink granite top you can measure the flatness with this old trick takes 2 123 blocks a mag indicator stand and an indicator mount indicator to stand and

Re: [Emc-users] Drilling holes in the back of a stepper motor

2023-06-25 Thread TJoseph Powderly
drill hole in and tap or glue screws on exterior, thread side out ? ;=} i read the force would be snall outside the box literally tomp On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 10:31 AM John Dammeyer wrote: > > I want to add an encoder onto the back of this stepper motor. I can install > either a US Digital

[Emc-users] remora spi wiring Mks-Sbase V1.3

2024-06-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
hello, I have a Mks-Sbase V1.3 Where does the wire labeled 'px.x' go? (refer to remora-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/har...e/SPI/Mks-Sbase.html figure 1 ) It comes from rpi gpio 25 thx tjtr33 ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

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