Re: [Emc-developers] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/23 Michael Haberler : > > What I do blame you for, and what I take issue with, is the style and > attitude in which you have come to, and implemented your decision, which is > symptomatic for how the EMC2 project is run, and what is wrong with it from a > steering perspective: > > After y

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, Wichita is always available. If we can get a consensus on a date/period we can schedule it. thanks Stuart -- dos centavos -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online le

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread John Prentice
From: "andy pugh" To: ; "EMC developers" Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting > On 20 October 2011 22:22, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> Hi folks, Greg Jackson of Tormach is offering us a location for an emc2 >> fest at their facility in Madison Wisconsin, and some machines to

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Daniel Rogge
On 20 October 2011 22:22, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> Hi folks, Greg Jackson of Tormach is offering us a location for an emc2 >> fest at their facility in Madison Wisconsin, and some machines to play >> with while we're there. Tormach makes commercial CNC machines that run >> emc2, and maybe som

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Dave
On 1/25/2012 11:02 AM, Daniel Rogge wrote: > would be thrilled to hear about Andy's experiences on the sailboat. Likewise! What did I miss?I did a message search and - nothing! Andy, you need to notify the other sailors on the list when you do something interesting on a sailboat. ;-) Dave

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 January 2012 16:19, Dave wrote: > What did I miss?    I did a message search and - nothing! > Andy, you need to notify the other sailors on the list when you do > something interesting on a sailboat.  ;-) I am sailing from Qingdao (China) to San Francisco, leaving on the 1st of March. It'

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Frank P Bufton
I would love to come, I am less than a 2 hour drive north of Madison. Frank Bufton From: Daniel Rogge To: "emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net" , Date: 01/25/2012 10:03 AM Subject:Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting On 20 October 2011 22:22, Sebastian K

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread EBo
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:34:03 +, andy pugh wrote: > On 25 January 2012 16:19, Dave wrote: > >> What did I miss?    I did a message search and - nothing! >> Andy, you need to notify the other sailors on the list when you do >> something interesting on a sailboat.  ;-) > > I am sailing from Qingd

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Dave
On 1/25/2012 11:44 AM, EBo wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:34:03 +, andy pugh wrote: > >> On 25 January 2012 16:19, Dave wrote: >> >> >>> What did I miss?I did a message search and - nothing! >>> Andy, you need to notify the other sailors on the list when you do >>> something int

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Dave
On 1/25/2012 11:34 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 25 January 2012 16:19, Dave wrote: > > >> What did I miss?I did a message search and - nothing! >> Andy, you need to notify the other sailors on the list when you do >> something interesting on a sailboat. ;-) >> > I am sailing from Qingd

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread EBo
who's joking ;-) Actually, there are some low-powered SOCs that run Linux, and if any of them can be made to run LinuxCNC nee EMC2, it would be replaceable. If you poke at this please let me/us know... EBo -- On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:52:56 -0500, Dave wrote: > On 1/25/2012 11:44 AM, EBo wrote

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 January 2012 17:58, Dave wrote: >> I am sailing from Qingdao (China) to San Francisco, leaving on the 1st >> of March. > Wow, nice.   What is the estimated trip time? About 40 days. (They are fairly fast boats) http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/index.php/the-boats/ -- atp The idea tha

Re: [Emc-developers] add-on for hal_glib.py

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Haberler
Hi Davide, why dont you just do this for edge detection (adapted from configs/gladevcp/complex/complex.py): def on_led_pin_changed(self,hal_led,data=None): if hal_led.hal_pin.get(): print "LED changed to true" else: print "LED changed to false"

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Haberler
[this should move to emc-developers, which is why I'm cc'ing there] it just occured to me that a decent parser would give us the opportunity for a significant language simplification while retaining backwards compatibility. An example for the current RS274NGC language with variable references,

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread s...@highlab.com
I am not a board member or anything official, I'm just some guy who hacks on linuxcnc sometimes. I speak for myself. I've been following this thread since the start, and there is a disconnect between what people are asking for and how i think this project works. People are saying thing like:

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 January 2012 20:53, s...@highlab.com wrote: > People are saying thing like: > "What's the road map of features for future releases?" > "What features should/shouldn't I work on?" > These kinds of questions make no sense in my mental model of the project. I see your point, but that does le

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-25 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 1/25/2012 3:22 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > [this should move to emc-developers, which is why I'm cc'ing there] > > it just occured to me that a decent parser would give us the opportunity for > a significant language simplification while retaining backwards compatibility. > > An example for t

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 January 2012 21:27, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > We should eliminate the removal of whitespace and use whitespace > as a delimiter. I am not sure that is necessarily a good idea, as a lot of G-code out there is space-free. Or am I misunderstanding the point? -- atp The idea that there is no

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread Stuart Stevenson
grin grin I want to shed my light on this subject > -- > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:53:51 -0700 > From: " s...@highlab.com " > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board >of Directors > To: " Sven Wesley " ,mark.w

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-25 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 1/25/2012 4:33 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 25 January 2012 21:27, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > >> We should eliminate the removal of whitespace and use whitespace >> as a delimiter. > I am not sure that is necessarily a good idea, as a lot of G-code out > there is space-free. > Or am I misunderstand

[Emc-developers] Regarding Fest

2012-01-25 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Given my druthers, I would rather have fest at Stuart's in Witchita than in Madison. I know what a Tormach looks like, but you never know what type of new stuff Stuart will have to play with. That's in spite of the fact that Witchita is a lot further from Connecticut. Regards, Ken -

Re: [Emc-developers] add-on for hal_glib.py

2012-01-25 Thread Spiderdab
On mer, 2012-01-25 at 20:39 +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: > Hi Davide, > > why dont you just do this for edge detection (adapted from > configs/gladevcp/complex/complex.py): > > def on_led_pin_changed(self,hal_led,data=None): > if hal_led.hal_pin.get(): > print "LED chan

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > Wichita is always available. If we can get a consensus on a > date/period we can schedule it. > thanks I'd certainly come! It is closer than Ann Arbor or so to me. Jon -- Keep Your

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Jon Elson
EBo wrote: > who's joking ;-) > > Actually, there are some low-powered SOCs that run Linux, and if any of > them can be made to run LinuxCNC nee EMC2, it would be replaceable. If > you poke at this please let me/us know... > The BeagleBoard is a good candidate, about 2W with an SD card for "

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBoard - Was Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/25/2012 10:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > EBo wrote: >> who's joking ;-) >> >> Actually, there are some low-powered SOCs that run Linux, and if any of >> them can be made to run LinuxCNC nee EMC2, it would be replaceable. If >> you poke at this please let me/us know... >> > The BeagleBoard is a go

Re: [Emc-developers] add-on for hal_glib.py

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 25.01.2012 um 23:46 schrieb Spiderdab: > On mer, 2012-01-25 at 20:39 +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: >> Hi Davide, >> >> why dont you just do this for edge detection (adapted from >> configs/gladevcp/complex/complex.py): >> >>def on_led_pin_changed(self,hal_led,data=None): >> if hal

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Lars Segerlund
But you can run preempt-rt on a Beagle board . if slightly higher latencies are acceptable / ragards, Lars Segerlund 2012/1/26 Jon Elson : > EBo wrote: >> who's joking ;-) >> >> Actually, there are some low-powered SOCs that run Linux, and if any of >> them can be made to run LinuxCNC n

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread EBo
I was going to mention that, but wait until I get to beta test some new equiptment that moves the hard real-time to an FPGA so I can give some real numbers and results... EBo -- On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:08:54 +0100, Lars Segerlund wrote: > But you can run preempt-rt on a Beagle board . if

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: EMC2 Fest/Meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Lars Segerlund
You should be able to get around 50 us ... / regards .. 2012/1/26 EBo : > I was going to mention that, but wait until I get to beta test some new > equiptment that moves the hard real-time to an FPGA so I can give some > real numbers and results... > >   EBo -- > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:08:54