On 10/01/2012 06:32 AM, Bence Kovács wrote: > I am Bence Kovacs, my college is Geza Szayer. We both finished on > Faculty of Mechatronics at Budapest University of Technology, and we > are currently doing PhD. Our MsC final work was the development of a > universal motion control system. We have chosen LinuxCNC because of > its scalability and open source philosophy. We have developed a PCI > motion control card and additional interface modules to make system > capable to control most robots and CNC machines. In the last year we > were continue developing the system so that it is already in > production stage. > > For more info, please look user manual at our website or look at the video: > http://www.generalmechatronics.com/robot_controller_eng.htm > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kw9vtsyJhsg#! > > We want to make effort on supporting robotics applications with > LinuxCNC in the future. > For example we are thinking of a kind of simple robot teaching > interface for LinuxCNC. > > We wonder if our project could be part of LinuxCNC documentation and drivers? > Alex Joni informed us that we should prepare a merge request. What is > needed for that, and who can check that it is ok? And how is it work > with the documentation?
Hi Bence (and Geza), welcome to LinuxCNC! Your hardware looks great, very professional. I'd love to review a LinuxCNC driver for your board. The best way to submit it would be in the form of a git branch, published in a public repo, based on the master branch from git.linuxcnc.org. Our documentation is in asciidoc, in the same git repo as the source code (in the /docs directory). Add docs for your board in the same branch that adds the driver for the board. Your PCI card has an FPGA, how does it get its firmware? Is the firmware open source too? We have drivers for a couple of other FPGA-based motion controllers, and in most cases we include the VHDL for the FPGA in the git repo (or in an adjacent repo, see http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=hostmot2-firmware.git). If you have any questions about any of this, mail the list and we'll try to help out. -- Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
