Thanks again Charles. Could you please create a G540 configuration for a DE0-Nano?
On 21 February 2018 at 09:01, Charles Steinkuehler <char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > On 2/20/2018 2:25 PM, Richard Thornton wrote: >> Thanks Charles, much appreciated. >> >> Sorry for the newbie questions. >> >> With machinekit on the de0-nano is there a pinout to stepper drivers? > > Yes, but since it's an FPGA it can be pretty much whatever you want in > terms of how many stepgens, encoders, etc. There are some existing > configs which may or may not work for you, see the PIN_* files: > > https://github.com/machinekit/mksocfpga/tree/master/HW/hm2/config/DE0_Nano_SoC_DB25 > > ...depending on what you need for I/O pins. I notice there is a > conspicuous lack of a configuration for something like a G540 (or even > stepgen + GPIO on the same DE0-Nano pin-header). I can make one if > you'd like. > >> Say I get machinekit on the de0-nano running and correctly cabled, do I >> just install machinekit on an x86_64 pc, load my drawing and send it to the >> de0-nano over IP, are there instructions for all of this? > > You only need Machinekit installed on the DE0-Nano. For an interface, > you either need to use X11 forwarding and bring up the display on a > different machine (the Axis GUI or one of the other traditional > LinuxCNC GUIs), or you can use one of Alexander's Qt interfaces (Cetus > or Machineface) which are designed to run on a tablet or remote computer. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > char...@steinkuehler.net > > -- > website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: > https://github.com/machinekit > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Machinekit" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/machinekit/Qj7VFVrRiYo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
