Hello everyone. first posting on this forum. I'm working on developing new methods in 3D printing, for this purpose I chose a platform which I could easily extend and I heard about Machinekit before, and it looks like the right platform for my purposes. so the Uni-mat 3d printer which uses machinekit in its Sandybox controller was ideal.
I'm trying to add a few switches to be turned on and off during Gcode execution. -ideally also give those switches an of/off duty cycle frequency (though in the range of 10-20Hz, so nothing too fast) In the future I would like to extend the control to other equipment such as syringe pumps etc. I dont want to hack the sandybox (physically) and its parrallel port shield does not allow further extension. maybe a splitter for the parrallel port would be enough, but I'm not sure how many of the pins on it are free. so another solution I thought could work was to communicate remotly with another Beaglebone via Ethernet or another bus. and send it some of the Gcode execution commands. with the other beaglebone running a daemon to execute those commands, maybe via ssh or someother protocol. I've been reading the documentation about using Mahcinekit so far, but now I've deceided to finally try and expand it. I'm looking for any advice, and to learn more Thanks! -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
