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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
