[Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Rick Mann
After help from Bas (thank you), I got MachineKit working on a Beaglebone Black and driving a ClearPath stepper. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kdqH8Miyg I notice on the oscilloscope (but not visible in the video above) that the step direction output changes when I st

Re: [Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Rick Mann
Oh, it's more interesting than this. It seems the step output is sometimes a square wave (with approximately 2ms period). If I jog a bit and stop, it sometimes settles down to low, sometimes it has a couple pulses then a longer high or low value. It's very curious and odd. Here's video showing w

Re: [Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Bas de Bruijn
> On 5 Apr 2018, at 09:50, Rick Mann wrote: > > After help from Bas (thank you), I got MachineKit working on a Beaglebone > Black and driving a ClearPath stepper. Here's a video: > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kdqH8Miyg > That's a hefty stepper. > I notice on the oscilloscope (bu

Re: [Machinekit] LinuxCNC and BeagleBone Black - a road well travelled?

2018-04-05 Thread 'fishy' via Machinekit
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:41:46 UTC+1, Schooner wrote: > > > > It is a community project, but thus far everyone (with minimal > exceptions) who has stood where you are and bemoaned the lack of > detailed personalised instructions for their > hardware combination of choice, has subsequently

Re: [Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Rick Mann
Oops, sent to soon, and forgot the list. In addition to the responses below, I meant to add: I don't think what I'm seeing is overshoot by the PID loop, at least not entirely, because when I'm not jogging it, it only twiddles the direction output. The step output is steady without pulses. If it

Re: [Machinekit] LinuxCNC and BeagleBone Black - a road well travelled?

2018-04-05 Thread 'schoone...@btinternet.com' via Machinekit
On 05/04/18 10:07, 'fishy' via Machinekit wrote: On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:41:46 UTC+1, Schooner wrote: It is a community project, but thus far everyone (with minimal exceptions

Re: [Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Bas de Bruijn
> On 5 Apr 2018, at 11:18, Rick Mann wrote: > > Oops, sent to soon, and forgot the list. > > In addition to the responses below, I meant to add: I don't think what I'm > seeing is overshoot by the PID loop, at least not entirely, because when I'm > not jogging it, it only twiddles the direct

Re: [Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 4/5/2018 4:18 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > Oops, sent to soon, and forgot the list. > > In addition to the responses below, I meant to add: I don't think what I'm > seeing is overshoot by the PID loop, at least not entirely, because when I'm > not jogging it, it only twiddles the direction output.

[Machinekit] MachineKit on PocketBeagle

2018-04-05 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Hi Has anyone done this setup already. I searched the forum and found only one old message on the topic. The links to the right image no longer works. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message becau

[Machinekit] Gcode from remote source

2018-04-05 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Hi I am planning on using a PocketBeagle for a project that will require some Gcode to be sent to the controller via USB. What mechanism is provided in MK to do this if any? -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You rec

Re: [Machinekit] Step direction changes when slowing down?

2018-04-05 Thread Eric Keller
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:50 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > After help from Bas (thank you), I got MachineKit working on a Beaglebone > Black and driving a ClearPath stepper. Here's a video: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kdqH8Miyg > > I notice on the oscilloscope (but not visible in the vi

[Machinekit] Re: Gcode from remote source

2018-04-05 Thread Daren Schwenke
Depends on what you are running for your USB. Ethernet, then you are good. There is the old way using halcmd stuff, and the new way using the mkwrapper protocol. The latter is what is used for Machineface and Cetus. I use Machineface for running my machine from my tablet. File transfers are b