Well I've found a use for one of the Beagles. Downloaded the OS image for it, added samba.
Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone81 #1 SMP Fri Oct 14 16:04:10 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux These folders are also visible on my windows network. drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Oct 15 2021 emu -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75052904 Apr 17 08:07 emufile_a drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Oct 15 2021 mfm drwxrwxr-x 4 debian debian 4096 Aug 24 2020 powerfail drwxr-xr-x 2 501 501 4096 Jul 18 2015 prudebug-0.24 Notice the really large 75MB file? That's an image of an older style MFM hard disk drive. At the moment empty while I wait for the cape which has the ribbon cable connectors for attaching to a drive. The software uses the PRU to decode the mfm output from the drive and create the sectors, tracks and heads information into the pseudo drive. Once it does that it can use a second set of gold plated gold edge connectors to emulate the MFM drive on old computer hardware. No more noisy constantly spinning drive and much faster seek times... John > -----Original Message----- > From: Murray Lindeblom [mailto:murray.lindeb...@gmail.com] > Sent: April-21-22 5:41 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebones, Machinekit, capes and the replicape. > > I am not sure but it appears many of the maintainers went professional to > support machinekit-hal for Tormach. > There appears to be no updates on the other repositories. That means > updates are required for new operation systems. They now use cmake-5.22 > for example. > > Murray > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 22:26, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > > I have 3 Beaglebones in my kennel; a Rev B with the 2GB eMMC and two Rev C > > with the 4GB eMMC. Additionally a cape that lets me run MachineKit (that > > microSD card is in the Rev B). Another cape called a Replicape for 3D > > printing. Some prototype boards, LCD capes, RS485/CAN capes. > > > > I've been playing fetch and trying to teach the beagles to sit/stay etc > > but I'm thinking, at least for me, I'm wasting my time with so many other > > projects on the go. Might just be time sell the stuff including all the > > books I bought to work with them. > > > > Trying to apply the 3 questions to cleaning out the closet. Finish it > > now? Set a date when it will be finished? Dispose of it because it will > > never be finished? > > > > On the second one if the date arrives and it's not done then dispose. > > > > Is there any point to holding out and hoping that MachineKit LCNC on the > > Beagle will ever be revived? It would make an awesome G-Code reading ELS > > for lathes. > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
