Re: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded

2015-12-25 Thread Brian
thing in between. It seems to me that Tormach has already started down this path with Path Pilot. Although I have never actually seen it, from what I hear, it makes accessing the desktop and other PC functionality not functional or not obvious. Brian Sent from my iPad On Dec 25, 2015, at 2:

Re: [Emc-developers] jerk limited trajectory

2015-12-17 Thread Brian
of such a move that the Z axis will need a small amount of motion to lock phase. Another edge case is a spindle that can out accelerate the Z axis. IMO, The likelihood that the spindle is able to out accelerate the Z axis is so unlikely that I wouldn't make handling it a priority. Regarding G

Re: [Emc-developers] Coreboot info

2015-11-17 Thread Brian
Bummer. Sounds like it is a dead end going forward, although should have several years of relevancy. Does anyone have any use/success stories about Coreboot and linuxcnc? Brian On Nov 17, 2015, at 9:54 PM, bari wrote: > I've been working with coreboot since it was still a concep

[Emc-developers] Coreboot info

2015-11-17 Thread Brian
hardware. It also appears it hasn't gained much attention in the LinuxCNC community, so I wanted to hear what the latest thoughts are regarding it. So, who knows anything about it, and has anyone had any experience or results using it?

Re: [Emc-developers] normal.z=0.039370

2015-10-09 Thread Brian Morel
3 points would define the plain as long as they are not co-linear. If it's a 180 deg. arc., you lose the ability to define the plain. -Original Message- From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 9:14 AM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] nor

Re: [Emc-developers] homing the spindle

2015-09-08 Thread Brian
Is it not possible to make a circular counter that always overflows to zero every rev? Don't angular axis already do this? Brian Sent from my iPad -- Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog

Re: [Emc-developers] step losing

2015-08-18 Thread Brian
st there error can ever be is 1/2 of the count scale factor. Brian -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
k configs. > > Chris M > > This is probably where this is headed. I think a single compensation input would make the most sense in this case, as what we are trying to do is translate from joint position to motor position. This translation should be the same forward and backward. Br

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 7/27/15 11:16 AM, Brian wrote: > > Does Classic Ladder run in HAL? I'm sure it has a large config, if it > runs > > as a HAL component, how does it do it? > > ClassicLadder runs in HAL and has a larg

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
Does Classic Ladder run in HAL? I'm sure it has a large config, if it runs as a HAL component, how does it do it? Brian -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-devel

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:48 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 27 July 2015 at 17:29, Brian wrote: > > Regardless, the point I would like to address right now is whether it > would > > be a welcome change or not. Its technical feasibility can be determined > > during its imple

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:29 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015, at 12:25 PM, EBo wrote: > > > > > Doesn't HAL have a way to load drivers and other data? I have not > > mucked with things at this level for awhile. > > > > Loading the code of drivers (or any other realtime compo

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
user-space already, and the screw comp > data piggybacks on the same data structures and user/realtime communication > link. A stand-alone screw comp component would have to solve that problem > another way. > This could be a majo

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
lementation. Obviously we want everything to work correctly and logically. Brian -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread Brian
. The only place to feed that information into motion is motor-pos-fb and it has the backlash/screw comp subtracted from it before it get to the kinematics. Because those compensations were subtracted from the scale position, the information going to the kinematics was never correct, and there is no

[Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-26 Thread Brian
would be useful, I'll start a branch and work it out. Brian -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinf

Re: [Emc-developers] Can I Display Gcode Parameters in PYVCP?

2015-06-12 Thread Brian
On Friday, June 12, 2015, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > > I think the answer is no. But perhaps someone can suggest a work around > for what I want to do. > > I'd like to write some subroutines to be used interactively. For example: > > Jog to position one. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled "enter". That w

Re: [Emc-developers] where the whole path is divided into segment by segment

2015-05-02 Thread Brian
This sounds a lot like the NURBS discussion regarding the first generation logic breaking the NURBS into segments. Brian On Saturday, May 2, 2015, andy pugh wrote: > On 29 April 2015 at 12:16, matic bie > > wrote: > > Hi,allWhat puzzles me is that where the whole path

Re: [Emc-developers] Array Overflow in WJ200

2015-03-13 Thread Brian
Some bounds checking would be a good idea in addition to making the array bigger. Brian On Friday, March 13, 2015, andy pugh wrote: > Someone on the forum found this: > > > http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/38-general-linuxcnc-questions/28946-wj200-vfd-segfaulting-a

Re: [Emc-developers] packaging for 2.7

2014-10-24 Thread Brian Morel
t the meta package as a provides? Brian -Original Message- From: Sebastian Kuzminsky [mailto:s...@highlab.com] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 12:49 AM To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers] packaging for 2.7 Packaging of LinuxCNC should probaly change some for 2.7. In 2.6 and earli

Re: [Emc-developers] so we have an ARM port, I guess...

2014-07-23 Thread Brian Morel
My Nvidia Jetson TK1 came in today. I believe it is shipping with an RT_Preempt Kernel, so I'm going to see if I can get it to build. Probably won't have a chance to play until the weeked. -Original Message- From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:3

Re: [Emc-developers] Deb package building on the Beaglebone

2014-03-18 Thread Brian Morel
-with-xenomai --with-platform=beaglebone --enable-emcweb --with-posix --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man Brian -Original Message- From: Mark Tucker [mailto:m...@rmtucker.f2s.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:49 AM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Deb pa

Re: [Emc-developers] Deb package building on the Beaglebone

2014-03-18 Thread Brian Morel
I did some work with the UB3 branch to make building docs optional. Take a look at the below, it might help. If I remember, you had to remove the "make docs" line in rules.in & there was also some issues with the files being moved around. I haven't updated the branch w/ git.linuxcnc.org in a whi

Re: [Emc-developers] Option for not building doc packages on UB3

2014-02-05 Thread Brian Morel
ng of the three doc packages. I will be working on that though, but it might need some refactoring of the main Makefile, so I'll be going very slow and cautious. Brian On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler < char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > I would *LOVE* to be able to

[Emc-developers] Option for not building doc packages on UB3

2014-02-05 Thread Brian Morel
hub.com/brianmorel99/linuxcnc-mirror/commit/f56743b81493df634372a14091d26b0ee9921c8f Thanks, Brian Morel -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Commo

Re: [Emc-developers] requesting help debugging ubc

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Morel
Wondering if I could get a little help. I'd like to checkout and work with the latest for the UB, but it's not a branch on git.linuxcnc.org. Could someone tell me how to access the latest source to test? On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 01/22/2014 12:14 AM, Mic

[Emc-developers] Compile Errors

2013-12-17 Thread Brian Morel
I'm working on compiling the master branch from git on a RTAI patched 3.8.13 kernel. I have the below error and was wondering if anyone ran into this before? I haven't dug to deep yet, but I figured since Seb has 3.4 working someone may have solved this already. Let me know if you need to see an

[Emc-developers] 2.6 Basics.

2013-12-01 Thread Brian Morel
t RTAI , Xenomai and RT_Prempet all theoretically support 3.8, and my plan was to test this. Thanks, Brian Morel -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear p

Re: [Emc-developers] Machine Coordination --- Here's a general history of the NIST AMRF

2012-08-15 Thread Brian Drummond
tion. Which works hre. However it's not unknown for Google Books to play silly games according to the geographical region your IP address is assigned to. It once refused me (in Britain) a 200+ year old British book my American friends could access, on copyright grounds! - Brian

[Emc-developers] Writing a simple userspace component...

2012-07-29 Thread Brian Drummond
is to avoid head scratching! (if this is already documented, I'd appreciate knowing where... This is clearly not a fundamental limit on user components, because both other approaches work: option count_function yes; or option default_count 3; (3) Attempting to read the command line args results

Re: [Emc-developers] 'BOSS behaviour of a G0'

2011-10-25 Thread Brian
I believe the original intention of 'rapid travel' was to run all axis' at full speed to the set point, without cooridinated motion. This gave the programmer the freedom to use that method, or they could program coordinated motion using G0 and setting the feedrate to the rapid rate

Re: [Emc-developers] 'BOSS behaviour of a G0'

2011-10-25 Thread Brian
on should occur. If you want it to move like a BOSS, then split the rapid into two blocks. Brian On Oct 25, 2011 1:06 PM, "Jon Elson" wrote: > John Thornton wrote: > > no, if the next Z position is higher Z moves first if the next Z > > position is lower Z moves last

Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ?

2011-07-21 Thread Brian
It seems the servo thread would be the highest priority code, so why not disable interrupts, or make it the highest priority interrupt. Brian On Jul 21, 2011 1:08 PM, "Peter C. Wallace" wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jon Elson wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:01:29 -0

Re: [Emc-developers] External write of axis position.

2011-07-12 Thread Brian
ition, to axis feedback would all be seperate hal modules that you could tie and tap as desired. The way it sits, the feedback line is kinda hardcoded. It may not help the joint coupling problem, but may spark some thought for a feedback solution. If this proves irrelevant, then disregard it.

Re: [Emc-developers] Utilizing FPGAs for CNC controller

2011-06-15 Thread Brian Korsedal
I was working on an FPGA based controller for a reprap. It evaluated bezier curves using highly pipelined numeric integration. I had to put it on pause because I started working, but now I'm out of a job, so I might have some time. http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Elegant_multispline_motion_contro

Re: [Emc-developers] Fanuc converter

2011-04-30 Thread Brian
If the problem is bursting that many counts, why not make the converter divide the counts down to something manageable like 2500 per rev? Brian On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Jon Elson wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:24:50 -

Re: [Emc-developers] vote: canned cycle candidate as o-word subroutine

2011-04-17 Thread Brian Pitt
ere (E= VERTICAL FEEDRATE) (F= CUTTING FEEDRATE) (I= TEXT ANGLE) (J =LETTER HEIGHT) (P= SERIAL 1 LITERAL 0) (R= RETURN HEIGHT) (Z= CUT DEPTH) Brian -- Nemo Me Impune Lacessit -- Benefiting from Server Virtuali

Re: [Emc-developers] Right-justifying

2011-04-01 Thread Brian
How about a union? I don't know the exact syntax off hand, but I know it will do exactly what you are trying. Brian On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Pavel Shramov wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:34:20AM +0100, andy pugh wrote: >> On 1 April 2011 06:02, Pavel Shramov wrote: &

Re: [Emc-developers] AVR Brain Barfing

2010-12-19 Thread Brian
Seriously!? A PLC, touchscreen controlled smoker?! Thats badass... Brian On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 1:41 PM, John Thornton wrote: > On the PC side of the control would be the smarts to control > temperatures and have various recipes for different temperature profiles. > > These s

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-09 Thread Brian
will tend to generate a more square, or trapezoid like shape. This guy from MIT has a lot of good info he has written on the subject http://scolton.blogspot.com/ Specifically this paper here. http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/3phduo.pdf Brian On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: >

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-09 Thread Brian
If you use PWM, doesn't that make it an AC motor? I suppose unless you are just modulating half of the polarity, then you could still consider it DC. I am not immediately familiar with the bldc components, so if this is just my ignorance speaking, then ignore it. Brian On Tue, Nov 9, 2010

[Emc-developers] FPGA based Motion Controller

2010-11-04 Thread Brian Korsedal
/www.reprap.org/wiki/Elegant_multispline_motion_controller#Elegant_MultiSpline_Motion_Controller -Brian -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Bi

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-09 Thread Brian
ll put it out there for others to think over at the same time. Brian On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > > On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:51 -0400, "Brian" > wrote: > >>   Why is there so much resistance to this?  I must not be effectively >>

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-09 Thread Brian
I meant to say, ...The motor-pos-fb at home will become the current motor offset... Brian On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Brian wrote: > John Kasunich, > >  You are spot on with your description of with I have and what I want > to do.  I am surprised that my configuration would

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-09 Thread Brian
solve the homing issue. Thoughts? Brian On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > > On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:51 -0400, "Brian" > wrote: > >>   Why is there so much resistance to this?  I must not be effectively >> explaining the situation.  

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
and reverse screw maps. Brian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
se the screw comp gets added to that value before it becomes axis.N.joint-pos-fb. The only way for this method to be valid is to zero out all the screw comp. Brian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
. Then if you move the machine manually, and re-enable the motors, the screw comp will know what side of the screw it is on to start with. Even without doing that, I suspect that the secondary feedback loop would be sufficient to

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
rrange > the code to feed the correction table values from the Linux side to the > component's parameter input. > This is incorrect. EMC already adds screw comp to the value axis.N.motor-pos-fb which then becomes axis.N.joint-pos-fb. I just want to be able to decouple th

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
sh. I am not interested in changing my machine or EMC in these regards. The ONLY reasons backlash and screw comp have been mentioned at all in this thread is because it is the reason I can't feed my scale feedback into axis.N.motor-pos-fb. Thats all. Brian -

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
Dave, I simply want axis to be able to utilize my scale feedback as actual joint position. Thats all. Brian On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Dave wrote: > Ok...  I guess I don't understand what you are trying to do..  or what > the issues are. > > I thought this was a cont

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-08 Thread Brian
the joint-pos-err like the motor position control does. This would be helpful when running a dual loop system. I am not sure if just adding a pin to write to the DRO would get the job done. It definitely doesn't follow the model of reality. Brian On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Andy

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-07 Thread Brian
. joint position, it would seem natural to have a provision for reading actual joint position if available, otherwise, simply substitute the inferred value based on motor position. This would more closely model reality in a machine. Does this make more sense? Brian On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:51 AM

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-07 Thread Brian
ithout a lot of trouble. Brian On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Brian wrote: >> I may give that a shot as a band-aid to the problem.  I suspect that >> when reversing direction, the backlash is going to drive the PID nuts >> and cause the table to jerk. >>

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-07 Thread Brian
Yes, that is an alternate way to incorporate the scale into the movement of the machine, but still leaves me with the problem when the drives are disabled. Brian On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM, dave wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:07 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: >> Stephen Wille Pad

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-07 Thread Brian
sition -> screw comp -> commanded motor position motor-pos-fb -> inv screw comp -> joint-pos-fb Wouldn't it make sense to decouple the screw comp from joint-pos-fb in the event that actual joint position is available? Seems simple enough. Brian On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:07

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-06 Thread Brian
This is what I am currently doing, but it doesn't really do much for me. I even have a bar graph of the current position error. I think it would be a natural progression for EMC to have the option to use feedback from a source that is subject to screw comp, or one that isn't. Brian O

Re: [Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-05 Thread Brian
-pos-fb + inverse screw comp). Brian On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Brian wrote: >>  I have a setup problem that I think should be a fairly common issue >> that I would like to bring up to the development team. >> >>  I have a milling machine that

[Emc-developers] Better logic for scale feedback, [Feature Idea]

2010-08-05 Thread Brian
ulated too, one for the servo loop, and another for the secondary feedback (scale). I think this fits nicely with the existing line of logic, and accurately describes the mechanics of a joint. Thoughts? Brian -- This SF

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug in 2.4.2?

2010-08-04 Thread Brian
at it. Thanks for your 'insight'. Sometimes it takes a fresh perspective to jump start the problem solving process. Brian my-mill.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program of

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug in 2.4.2?

2010-08-04 Thread Brian
r is there a better way to share it? Brian On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:57:52PM -0400, Brian wrote: > >> I recently moved to EMC 2.4.2, > > Do you know from which version? > > >> and I am having trouble reloading the

[Emc-developers] Bug in 2.4.2?

2010-08-04 Thread Brian
begins tracing the actual part edge, not the comp'ed position, and the machine follows the actual part edge. Has/can anyone one else duplicate this? Brian -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the

Re: [Emc-developers] hostmot2 firmware -all doesn't pull dependencies in

2010-07-05 Thread Brian
wing error pin could be calculated too, one for the servo loop, and another for the secondary feedback (scale). I think this fits nicely with the existing line of logic, and accurately describes the mechanics of a joint. Thoughts? Brian