Re: [Machinekit] Pico-Systems ppmc setup

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On 12/03/18 14:48, Maxime Lemonnier wrote: Hi MachineKit, It's been almost 8 years since I used my pico systems univpwm system (5 axis brushless servos). At the time I was in the process of rewriting Axis, that I found too monolithic to maintain or extend. I had a PyQt4 gui working, jogging, mdi-ing with a rather raw openGL display. I recently resurrected all this code and made it work with the latest linuxcnc version. Then I learned about the machinekit project, which I find fascinating. Especially the multicore effort and the more recent backend(hal)/frontend(not-hal) separation. Which leads to my questions: What is the state of the ppmc driver in all this? anyone used it? I am pretty sure no-one uses it, because it is not built. https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/src/Makefile#L1440 The actual code is just the same as linuxcnc, it has not been updated to run as instantiable or use any of the new HAL stuff. Is there an effort/interest in modernizing the front-end API? Alex has done quite a lot with the python API. Or do you mean the front end GUI, as you mentioned rewriting Axis? Alex has written Machineface, a remote capable Axis clone plus QtQuick and Qml based VCP stuff. I have a C++ Qt5 Axis replacement (which is not released because I don't want to have to support it), plus other C++ VCP stuff. Any interest in ROS, expecially ROS2? There is definitely some interest in ROS, I expect those concerned will chime in. At the present I use my machine as a robot to precisely move a sensor. I have years of experience in modern Python/C++/Qt/QML and lots of experience in real-time, math-heavy programming. I *may* find some time to contribute a bit to your project. You will be most welcome. Look forward to seeing what direction interests you. 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 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.