Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 2/17/2015 7:12 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Well, the program compiles easily on Linux, or I could just give you an executable. But, if you don't have a photoplotter to run it on, the program is pretty useless. This is a 1000 x 1000 DPI raster photoplotter, and it is great for making circuit

Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-18 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/18/2015 02:18 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Sounds like it would also work well for making screens for screen printing on paper and fabric. Sure, anything that needs a high-contrast artwork will work. I have a board that can be swapped in to generate gray-scale output, but that would need

Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/17/2015 01:34 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2015-02-17 20:51 GMT+02:00 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: If you want to experiment with it, I could probably let you have a copy. (I might need a non-disclosure agreement, though.) Thanks for the offer, it seems way too complicated for my

Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/17/2015 02:04 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Thomas Freiherr is working on the libpruio project to allow PRU support on the BBB. It is “designed for easy configuration and data handling at high speed. libpruio software runs on the host (ARM) and in parallel on a Programmable Realtime Unit

Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2015-02-17 18:59 GMT+02:00 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: I use it here also to run a laser photoplotter, it unpacks run-length encoded raster files in real time between clocking out the pixels. Could you, please, share more details about the software that controls that machine? Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2015-02-17 20:51 GMT+02:00 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: If you want to experiment with it, I could probably let you have a copy. (I might need a non-disclosure agreement, though.) Thanks for the offer, it seems way too complicated for my skills... Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/17/2015 11:16 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2015-02-17 18:59 GMT+02:00 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com: I use it here also to run a laser photoplotter, it unpacks run-length encoded raster files in real time between clocking out the pixels. Could you, please, share more details about the

[Emc-users] PRU programming on the Beagle Bone Black.

2015-02-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Thomas Freiherr is working on the libpruio project to allow PRU support on the BBB. It is “designed for easy configuration and data handling at high speed. libpruio software runs on the host (ARM) and in parallel on a Programmable Realtime Unit SubSystem (= PRUSS or just PRU) and controls the