I agree with those who say that EMC2's Fest at the CNC-Workshop is of
such great value largely because of the one-to-one or small group give
and take.
However, based on the notion of cnc-workshop, I offered the early
morning newbie "using EMC2 class." I also plan to offer another week
long newbie workshop on some configuration topics. I believe that these
kinds of classes break down or at least lower some of the barriers to
entry into our group and our project for those who have heard of EMC but
not gotten very near it.
I received a commitment from a very reputable vendor for a few parport
exercise boards that will be ready for fest. No rocket science here
just watch leds and flip switches. They will allow students to test out
all of the common combinations of I and O possible on a standard
parport. They also have a single external square wave signal generator
with potentiometer rate control. Oh and they will allow pass-through of
the parport's signals so we could plug in a set of drives and motors and
see the movement and the leds or drive the motors from the on-board
pulse generator.
The configuration workshop will include quick overviews and in class
practice projects on the following topics.
Stepconf
Stand-alone HAL
EMC2 HAL
Ladder HAL
PyVCP
There will be almost no time during these sessions to answer questions
that are unique to specific retrofits or integrations or for individual
work on unique variations of machine control.
Classes will stick very close to already published literature about
configuring EMC2. Questions are always welcome, encouraged even, on the
topic at hand. We'll have to leave the individual project questions and
testing to open lab time and to the mentoring that is so much a part of
Fest.
My plan is for participants to sign up for these courses as soon as the
cnc-workshop.com registration comes on line. I'll use wiki.linuxcnc.org
to develop course syllabi that include required and suggested reading
and supplementary materials.
Rayh
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