Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
Andrew wrote: I just ran into Intel DN2800MT mini-ITX motherboard. Anyone tested the latency? Anybody ACTUALLY using this board with Linux? I picked one up to test out, but the reports about problems with the video site are quite correct. It's unusable :( Would seem that it IS only usable

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 July 2012 07:28, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Anybody ACTUALLY using this board with Linux? I picked one up to test out, but the reports about problems with the video site are quite correct. It's unusable :( Yes, I am using it as my LinuxCNC development machine. What video

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
andy pugh wrote: Anybody ACTUALLY using this board with Linux? I picked one up to test out, but the reports about problems with the video site are quite correct. It's unusable:( Yes, I am using it as my LinuxCNC development machine. What video problems are you having? I just did a simple

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/7/17 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 17 July 2012 07:28, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Anybody ACTUALLY using this board with Linux? I picked one up to test out, but the reports about problems with the video site are quite correct. It's unusable :( Yes, I am using it as my

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 July 2012 10:09, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Don't You have D510? Or have You made some upgrades? I needed to move the D510 to the machine it was bought to control, so I bought the DN2800 as a dedicated dev machine. I now have 2 machine tools and 4 LinuxCNC computers

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Joseph Chiu
Yishin, what was that Beagle Bone running? On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: PCIe slot is suitable for 6i25, which is probably very new, it's even not in MESA's price

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: I'm using the D2500HN for the CNC kits and that seems to be fine but only has the VGA output;) OK turns out the D2500HN also has problems when running in Linux graphics mode, so as far as I am concerned they are not usable for Linux. I've got bigger machines for the

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Yishin Li
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Joseph Chiu joec...@joechiu.com wrote: Yishin, what was that Beagle Bone running? Joseph, It's with Ubuntu 12.04 armhf. The detail installation guide is here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu And, this is my note about installing headless LinuxCNC on

[Emc-users] can't jog using handwheel with gantrykins

2012-07-17 Thread David Dyke
I have been following the gantrykins conversation recently as we have been installing linuxcnc on a gantry machine. There is some odd behavior with ignoring soft limits, and jumping to joint mode at moments when it is least desirable. I now find that the hand wheel jogging does not seem to work.

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle hooked to dc servo amp

2012-07-17 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: The spindle has a gear shift and in high gear can make 2500 revs. Thats a hair over 40 rps, and the encoder doesn't appear to be suffering from skipped counts. Yes, you numbers seem OK. Well I am getting good results at 81 teeth, you are getting both loop

Re: [Emc-users] can't jog using handwheel with gantrykins

2012-07-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Incremental jogging (as with a hand wheel) doesn't work with gantrykins :-( Continuous jogging does, but that doesn't help you much. And yes, gantrykins also ignores soft limits. On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:01 , David Dyke wrote: I have been following the gantrykins conversation recently as we

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Jon Elson
Joseph Chiu wrote: Yishin, what was that Beagle Bone running? On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com wrote: Maybe you could consider BeagleBone with Mesa's 7i43/USB board. I saw smooth stepper motion with above combination. As it's with USB interface, it could

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Jon Elson
Yishin Li wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Joseph Chiu joec...@joechiu.com wrote: Yishin, what was that Beagle Bone running? Joseph, It's with Ubuntu 12.04 armhf. The detail installation guide is here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu And, this is my note about

Re: [Emc-users] can't jog using handwheel with gantrykins

2012-07-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 July 2012 17:38, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: Incremental jogging (as with a hand wheel) doesn't work with gantrykins :-( ... And yes, gantrykins also ignores soft limits. In many cases gantrykins is a lot more trouble than it is worth. It does allow the gantry to

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle hooked to dc servo amp

2012-07-17 Thread Eric Keller
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: I don't use NFS, just sftp, and it works fine and is pretty easy to move files around between machines. if you set up mediawiki or svn as a server on one of your machines, you can use use the resulting web server to

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Jack Coats
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Joseph Chiu joec...@joechiu.com wrote: Yishin, what was that Beagle Bone running? Joseph, It's with Ubuntu 12.04 armhf. The detail installation guide is here:

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 July 2012 20:08, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: I just got delivery of a Raspberry Pi (B) ... runs ARM code and there is a debian distribution for it. Just not enough I/O available to make it a rational LinuxCNC machine :( 17? Sounds at least as capable as a single-parport machine.

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle hooked to dc servo amp

2012-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 July 2012 14:51:38 Jon Elson did opine: Gene Heskett wrote: The spindle has a gear shift and in high gear can make 2500 revs. Thats a hair over 40 rps, and the encoder doesn't appear to be suffering from skipped counts. Yes, you numbers seem OK. Well I am getting good

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle hooked to dc servo amp

2012-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 July 2012 15:47:33 Jon Elson did opine: Gene Heskett wrote: Got them Jon, see at: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf/GCode/ Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Dave
Where did you get your Raspberry Pi from?? I have a standing order for two of them at the moment. Scarcer than hen's teeth! Dave On 7/17/2012 3:08 PM, Jack Coats wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Yishin Liy...@araisrobo.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Joseph

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle hooked to dc servo amp

2012-07-17 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: And I can never remember the ancient, arcane, and usually nearly two full lines of text of the command line that makes it work, I believe I have succeeded twice in damned near 14 years of running linux. HUH? I use commands like sftp username@ip_address then, cd, ls,

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle hooked to dc servo amp

2012-07-17 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2012 15:47:33 Jon Elson did opine: Gene Heskett wrote: Got them Jon, see at: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf/GCode/ Cheers, Gene Well, I don't see anything wrong. I do see the spindle P term set to 100, that may

Re: [Emc-users] Intel DN2800MT - possible new LinuxCNC star?

2012-07-17 Thread Jack Coats
Newark Electronics. Ordered it some time ago. They charged my card when they were available to ship. ... Jack On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: Where did you get your Raspberry Pi from?? I have a standing order for two of them at the moment. Scarcer than