On 02/10/2012 11:08 AM, Mark Haynes wrote: > Next I am developing a new Non Contact Coordinate Measuring Machine > (CMM) and need to access some peripheral devices for my CMM over USB. > I am aware that USB is not real time but for my specific application > it does not need to be. Is it okay for me to ask this developer's > list some technical questions I have about this project? I am > looking to add in some custom G-code commands that will access my USB > device and am not sure where to start. I want to use LinuxCNC as the > core of this new CMM but I am having to issue's figuring out how I > can incorporate this custom functionality.
I have a control panel with switches, lights, and joysticks connected to a digitial I/O board. The I/O board has a USB interface and creates a virtual serial port when plugged in. A user-space Python program interfaces between the digital I/O board and HAL pins. Karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
