On Saturday 01 June 2013 14:22:16 Charles Steinkuehler did opine: > So I finally got enough of the pieces put together to run a print on > my MendelMax 3D printer using the BeagleBone with the BeBoPr cape and > LinuxCNC. This is using the 3.2 Xenomai kernel from Michael Haberler > to get LinuxCNC working well on the 'Bone, and custom PRU code doing > step/dir and pwm generation. Thanks also to Ian for the bb_gpio > module, which came in very handy. > > Video or it didn't happen... > > My first ever 3D print from the BeagleBone, second print using > LinuxCNC (the first LinuxCNC print used an x86 running preempt-rt). > The X axis is mirrored and the configuration and slicing settings need > to be tweaked to improve print quality, but overall it came out pretty > good: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2IoHOZipLU > > ...I particularly like the acceleration control in LinuxCNC. It seems > smoother than the Arduino code. Now if I could just get a slicing > program that outputs true arcs and nurbs... :) > > Code is in the arm335x-hal-pru-tasks branch of Michael's git repository: > > http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb?p=emc2-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/arm > 335x-hal-pru-tasks > > Up next is the great migration to a 3.8 kernel, where I get to craft > the magic device tree fragments necessary to get this all working again.
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