Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-17 Thread Gabriel Willen
I used a small stepper motor hooked to an arduino for a jog wheel. Being that steppers are 200 teeth it makes it easy to feel each rotation to the next tooth. I can dig up the program if your interesred. Gabe On Jun 15, 2013 5:50 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 June 2013 19:47,

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 5:47 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 15 June 2013 19:47, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: I've played with the various interfaces for LinuxCNC on the BeagleBone (tunneling X display data to a remote system), and touchy

[Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've played with the various interfaces for LinuxCNC on the BeagleBone (tunneling X display data to a remote system), and touchy seems to be the best choice from a CPU usage and system integration standpoint (the 'Bone can support driving small LCD

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I can run the touchy simulation configuration, but I have not been able to get the loaded gcode to run (presumably because I can't press the start button that isn't there). So do I need real hardware or am I missing some

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 2:37 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I can run the touchy simulation configuration, but I have not been able to get the loaded gcode to run (presumably because I can't

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Dewey Garrett
there is a little gui that can be used to simulate one or more boolean pins: example: $ sim_pin touchy.cycle-start touchy.abort (If using a rip build, source scripts/rip-environment in a new terminal) Available by commit 8c73b00fb3 in versions =2.5 $ git tag --contains 8c73b00fb3 v2.5.2

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 June 2013 19:47, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: I've played with the various interfaces for LinuxCNC on the BeagleBone (tunneling X display data to a remote system), and touchy seems to be the best choice from a CPU usage and system integration standpoint Have you