On Wednesday 24 June 2020 13:22:09 andy pugh wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 17:55, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > If I interrupt that signal path with an and2, and drive the 2nd
> > input with a timer set to be a 555 like oscillator
>
> It might be worth considering having a single "flash" and feed that in
> to a mux that drives the pins you want to flash.
>
> It feels like you should be able to use an edge or oneshot feeding in
> to itself. But I had a quick play with edge and couldn't figure out
> how to set it going.
> So the clock signal out of siggen is probably the easiest, if not the
> lowest-cpu). It should run in the servo thread anyway.
>
It would be 100% functional running in the 200hz jog thread on that pi.  
Lots of stuff running in that slower thread in fact that aren't machine 
motion time sensitive.

> For an on-screen message:
> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/message.9.html

Thats exactly what I'm looking for, thank you.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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