Re: [Emc-users] D525MW EMC2 demo

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Wendt
On 07/20/2011 04:33 PM, Dave wrote: On 7/20/2011 12:33 PM, Neil wrote: Got the Intel D525MW Mini-ITX board, and got EMC2 running yesterday on our home-brew robotic workcell. Went pretty smooth and quick, especially since my high-school mentees are doing most of this work. Probably not as

Re: [Emc-users] D525MW EMC2 demo

2011-07-21 Thread Neil
It's designed to be somewhat universal with an easily interchangeable head for a number of purposes... (1) SMT pick and place machine, (2) 3D printer, (3) laser cutter (for which I'm currently figuring out how to safely mount a 40W CO2 tube with water cooling), and (4) an adhesive dispenser.

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-21 Thread Javier Ros
Michael, Thanks very much. By starting from just a HAL session, I mean to do something similar to the tutorial on HAL (in the HAL manual), in which you use halrun to load different components and to connect them together. To be able to launch a gladevcp application, so that it can be used as a

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Haberler
interesting idea. HAL is IMO one of the strongest assets of EMC. It's a lego space which enables mix-and-match and has user extensibility, other than other parts of EMC. It is a tempting idea to spin it out and make it usable without the rest of the EMC baggage, possibly in some very different