I have been using the arduino for simple i/o and such on the K&T. (right now I am using it for just temp sensing)
I had all kinds of issues before the update to the uno. After - the arduino has been rock solid. Boots up within linuxcnc every time with no errors. This seems to be a good starting point http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01198594294 sam On 3/7/2012 1:51 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > I'm working on a VFD controller using an AVR, and also looking into > using an Arduino. I seem to have found that the Arduino has problems > working with the serial port because the Rx and Tx pins are also tied to > the USB interface, the BootLoader, in someway the serial port monitor > and debugging. It seems if one's application causes serial data to > stream on power up, the BootLoader takes this as something trying to > talk to the BootLoader and loops without a time-out. Unfortunately, one > needs to use this link in order to edit the application to stop it from > streaming until after the BootLoader does its thing and gets out of the > way. There is a USB chip update that is supposed to fix this, but > requires some command line gymnastics and something called DFU. I don't > know what I did, but I finally got the update loaded and it seems to > work now, but this brings up the thought, considering the importance of > the serial port to many CNC applications and the serial port resource > sharing on the Arduino, is Arduino appropriate for LinuxCNC > applications? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
