On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:12:16 -0400, you wrote:
Someone mentioned there being an RMS conversion as part of the existing PWM
to analog conversion methods but don't recall who now, can someone suggest
a link for reading that might get me some insight on this?
I mentioned the problem was to do
On 12 June 2013 05:18, Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com wrote:
My favorite method of installing LinuxCNC is to download the ISO, but
instead of burning a CD, I use unetbootin to create a bootable USB flash
drive.
It is actually even easier than that, as Ubuntu has a buit-in
Can you point us to such a $500 depth sensor?.
Thanks,
Javier
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:34 AM, jeremy youngs jcyoung...@gmail.com wrote:
why not just probe check the technology is already mature. not tryin to
disuade just sayin i mean if you are developing it great please share
in
--- On Tue, 6/11/13, a k pccncmach...@gmail.com wrote:
i want to talk about 3d laser scanner.
this is new technology that can be add to EMC2
Big picture is to generate intelligent milling machine
machine tool.
With 3d scanner machine tool can see inspect part that it
cutting, analyze make
HI,
My 2ct, when I tried 2 years ago to have a reliable 3d scanner for
cheap, I tried the line laser option, cost nothing (a laser line is 5$
on ebay, and I recycle a good webcam).
My conclusion were that the raw scan need a lot of cleaning before
having anything useful for milling.
Maybe it
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Steve Stallings steve...@newsguy.comwrote:
Well, cutting it extremely close, but the developer's
test bed for using a BeagleBone to run LinuxCNC is
hopefully going to be at the fest in Wichita.
The PCB is out for fab and we supposedly will get the
blank
On 12 June 2013 06:22, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote:
You need to edit the one in /boot/uboot/, or more specifically, the
one in the FAT partition of the SD Card.
This was slightly complicated by the SD card being mounted at the time
in a Virtual PC running on my Mac.
So,
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 06:07:19 andy pugh did opine:
On 10 June 2013 00:20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
And this is with Pgain
at about 40, but there is a speed instability, an almost random 50 rpm
wandering that doesn't go away if I turn off the pwm dither,
Any PID
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 06:28:33 Steve Blackmore did opine:
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:12:16 -0400, you wrote:
Someone mentioned there being an RMS conversion as part of the existing
PWM to analog conversion methods but don't recall who now, can someone
suggest a link for reading that might get
2013/6/12 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com:
On 11 June 2013 21:10, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote:
(I am also wondering if a version of kwik-switch (which has the
advantage of being bottom-actuated) could be made where…
Is there any chance to see some kind of picture with this
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
Regards,
Sven
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On 12 June 2013 12:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Andy had mentioned lincurve.9 as a possible solution, but the version I
save installed on this machine so I can run sims, doesn't have that module
available. So I can't play what if using halrun. :(
There isn't a lot to it, you
On 12 June 2013 12:17, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
It only occurred to me last night that there is no mention of it on
the forums at all.
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In regards to a depth sensor, there's a good change Aram is referring to
a Kinect or the Asus Xtion (Pro Live). There's been plenty of
hacker-friendly attempts for point-n-shoot capture solutions using
these over the years, adding to the laser-line, and distributed-light
methods. The Xtion
sorry sent before finished , i agree with all of the other statements
though
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:52 AM, jeremy youngs jcyoung...@gmail.com wrote:
ted said
Even if it did, one would have to scan a known-good-master at each
step of the production for the test scan to reference
ted said
Even if it did, one would have to scan a known-good-master at each
step of the production for the test scan to reference against. If you
want accuracy, measuring scale on a single volumetric scan is near
impossible. You need to have many angles and views stitched together to
see past
Hi people.
I'm from Northern Italy and I would be happy to participate to a meeting in
southern Germany
(Munich or Landshut that for me is about 500/600km ).
Of course during the weekend time. :-)
Alex
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Maximilian H
mhemc2nos...@googlemail.comwrote:
Hello
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Gene Heskett wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:05:56 -0400
From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] looking for a non-linearity in
this is what we need to be working toward :)
http://www.faro.com/en-us/products/metrology/measuring-arm-faro-scanarm/overview
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:53 AM, jeremy youngs jcyoung...@gmail.com wrote:
sorry sent before finished , i agree with all of the other statements
though
On Wed,
-Original Message-
From: Stuart Stevenson [mailto:stus...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:05 AM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 3d scanner
this is what we need to be working toward :)
a while back I put the livecd on a usb stick since I don't know if I
have any working cdrom drives. I carry around a usb drive with a
number of linux distros on it for diagnostic purposes
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:55 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 June 2013 05:18, Bruce Layne
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:05 +0200
Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
Mostly because we're a bunch of knuckleheads. Is this you?
https://www.facebook.com/sven.wesley I ask because if it is, you
probably don't live in the US (if you're
Am 12.06.2013 um 12:08 schrieb andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com:
On 12 June 2013 06:22, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote:
You need to edit the one in /boot/uboot/, or more specifically, the
one in the FAT partition of the SD Card.
This was slightly complicated by the SD
On 12 June 2013 15:33, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
I have wasted too much time trying to get the Mac SD card reader in a MBP to
work with Virtualbox, or sensibly from the OSX shell layer for these purposes.
It _appears_ to work entirely as one would expect in VMWare Fusion.
On 12 June 2013 13:52, jeremy youngs jcyoung...@gmail.com wrote:
not exactly just compare it to an iges file that will never change . or
other parametric solid
Going from a point-cloud to a parametric solid is not even slightly easy.
However, in this case I guess that you could create a
Hello,
This is a video of our first machine working with linuxCNC. It is in a
platform shoes factory in Spain.
http://youtu.be/ehIIegO4gHQ
Regards,
Luis Bellot
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I took the little CNC Unimat lathe out to the meeting of the OVAR (Ottawa,
Canada) informal railway modellers group last night. There's usually about
125 people that show up.
The CNC lathe was just running a turning program, no spindle going, (no
swarf to throw around over other exhibits).
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 11:01:33 andy pugh did opine:
On 12 June 2013 12:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Andy had mentioned lincurve.9 as a possible solution, but the version
I save installed on this machine so I can run sims, doesn't have that
module available. So I can't
I'm interested in whether you could use a leap for this.
https://leapmotion.com/product
I am still trying to get ahold of one :-)
DougM
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Watier Yves w...@tieryves.com wrote:
HI,
My 2ct, when I tried 2 years ago to have a reliable 3d scanner for
cheap, I
On 6/12/2013 9:41 AM, Matt Shaver wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:05 +0200
Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
Mostly because we're a bunch of knuckleheads. Is this you?
https://www.facebook.com/sven.wesley I ask because if it is,
Hello,
I am also from the near of stuttgart (south of stuttgart, near Tübingen) -
so that location would be very fine for me - well, I hope there will be
enough free chairs!
Has anyone an idea for a good location in stuttgart for many people - I
think there will be a lot of guys ;-)
Jan Maier
On 12 June 2013 16:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I must have a broken install here,
You need linuxcnc-dev (I don't actually know why comp isn't installed
as standard, I don't think it is enormous)
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/comp.html Section 2
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If you can't fix
On 12 June 2013 15:54, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote:
Was looking for another Unimat headstock to put a stepper motor on, so I
can go quickly from splashing brass at 5,000 rpm to cutting cams at 1
rpm. We'll see what the grapevine turns up.
Sounds like a job for a small
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 11:07:52 Peter C. Wallace did opine:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Gene Heskett wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:05:56 -0400
From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To:
I accidentally bought another lathe from eBay.
It is beautifully made, in the 1920s, with no regard to cost
practicality or logic. One of these:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rivett/page2.html
It isn't quite as nice as the one in the pictures, and has no
changewheels or screwcutting box. (imagine is
On 12 June 2013 16:10, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com wrote:
If you are vegan, I'll buy you a carrot. :-)
I'll take you up on the carrot if it is a generic offer.
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If you can't fix it, you don't own it.
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On Wednesday 12 June 2013 11:44:39 andy pugh did opine:
On 12 June 2013 16:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I must have a broken install here,
You need linuxcnc-dev (I don't actually know why comp isn't installed
as standard, I don't think it is enormous)
Andy;
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:22 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like a job for a small servo motor, then it can do both.
Maybe my focus is too narrow, but I have the steppers and controllers from
another project, and the spindle comes out of the headstock s easily...
Andy;
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:50 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Going from a point-cloud to a parametric solid is not even slightly easy.
It's not that hard. In my Android App (for instance) I take STL vertices,
group them, then recreate triangles; it makes rendering much faster,
On 6/12/13 08:22 , Luis Bellot wrote:
Hello,
This is a video of our first machine working with linuxCNC. It is in a
platform shoes factory in Spain.
http://youtu.be/ehIIegO4gHQ
Hi Luis, that's very cool! I love seeing people use LinuxCNC in
production environments.
Do you have a picture
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:35:55 +0100
andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Should I CNC it?
By asking this question the way you did, it's obvious that you
understand the problem. That said, you may not be able to achieve the
very high level of tastefulness de rigueur in a project like this. It's
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:35:55 +0100 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Should I CNC it?
It's a neat old machine, but it's not the Mona Lisa. Converting it to
CNC is not some sort of crime against humanity. Follow your own
sensibilities and I'm sure you'll do just fine.
I think it's great
Hi Andy;
I have a pedal powered lathe built in 1909.
It was converted to electric motor power in 1965.
I use it for quick one of a kind job, a lot quicker than
programing the CNC Lathe.
Just a thought.
Don
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com wrote:
On
We have a monarch 10EE that is going to be converted to cnc... Some
people cringe at that. I don't..
sam
On 6/12/2013 12:05 PM, Bruce Layne wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:35:55 +0100 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
Should I CNC it?
It's a neat old machine, but it's not the Mona Lisa.
Bruce;
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Layne
linux...@thinkingdevices.comwrote:
I think it's great that people respect old machines and want to preserve
them. However, I also believe in property rights. You bought it, so
it's yours. ...
I'm of Scottish descent. Should I sell one
On 12 June 2013 17:35, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I accidentally bought another lathe from eBay.
It is beautifully made, in the 1920s, with no regard to cost
practicality or logic. One of these:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rivett/page2.html
It isn't quite as nice as the one in the
andy pugh wrote:
On 12 June 2013 16:10, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com wrote:
If you are vegan, I'll buy you a carrot. :-)
I'll take you up on the carrot if it is a generic offer.
There's an Indian place in Wichita that is VEY good! They had a
lentil soup
there
I am in the process of converting a Monarch 10EE to cnc. It was a
gift so no expense up front. If it hadn't been a gift I would not
have paid much or anything for it because it was shipped from Monarch
as a Basic Model in 1953. As a Basic model it is pretty much a
second op machine but a
On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 19:28 +0200, Roland Jollivet wrote:
On 12 June 2013 17:35, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I accidentally bought another lathe from eBay.
It is beautifully made, in the 1920s, with no regard to cost
practicality or logic. One of these:
2013/6/12 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com
On 6/12/13 08:22 , Luis Bellot wrote:
Hello,
This is a video of our first machine working with linuxCNC. It is in a
platform shoes factory in Spain.
http://youtu.be/ehIIegO4gHQ
Hi Luis, that's very cool! I love seeing people use
2013/6/12 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com
I accidentally bought another lathe from eBay.
Thank you very much, this sentence made my day!
Was it a hardcore weekend to take 3 days to uncover all the consequences?
:))
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If you can't fix it, you don't own it.
Gentlemen,
I always enter these meetings (Galesburg and Wichita) without a personal
agenda. This allows me to enjoy whatever opportunity presents itself.
This meeting is by no means exclusive to developers. Everyone is
welcome/encouraged to attend. The more the merrier. Come and have fun.
I
yeah - made me laugh
I have done that a time or two (not a lathe) and wasn't even drinking.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote:
2013/6/12 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com
I accidentally bought another lathe from eBay.
Thank you very much, this
My shop workload will not let me stay the whole week.
So should I come for the beginning or the end?I have 3 days to spend.
On Jun 12, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote:
andy pugh wrote:
On 12 June 2013 16:10, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com wrote:
If you
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 17:20:57 Gene Heskett did opine:
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 11:44:39 andy pugh did opine:
On 12 June 2013 16:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I must have a broken install here,
You need linuxcnc-dev (I don't actually know why comp isn't installed
as
usually - in my experience - the end of the week is usually the busiest..
We are driving Wednesday morning and leaving Sunday.
sam
On 06/12/2013 04:08 PM, tcninj...@yahoo.com wrote:
My shop workload will not let me stay the whole week.
So should I come for the beginning or the end?I have 3
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 17:35:33 Gene Heskett did opine:
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 17:20:57 Gene Heskett did opine:
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 11:44:39 andy pugh did opine:
On 12 June 2013 16:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I must have a broken install here,
You need
2013/6/12 Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:05 +0200
Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
Mostly because we're a bunch of knuckleheads. Is this you?
https://www.facebook.com/sven.wesley I ask because if it is,
2013/6/12 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com:
I saw a really nice ATC as an add-on that fits the common Chinese VFD
spindles. It was very nice looking but expensive.
/S
Found it!
http://store.blurrycustoms.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=46
On 12 June 2013 17:01, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote:
I've applied for a table at the Ottawa (Canada) Maker Faire this coming
Aug31/Sep1 weekend; want to show what is both easy and possible - maybe two
conflicting goals?
I wouldn't have said so, it isn't like the area of the
On 12 June 2013 17:15, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote:
Going from a point-cloud to a parametric solid is not even slightly easy.
It's not that hard. In my Android App (for instance) I take STL vertices,
group them, then recreate triangles; it makes rendering much faster, and
On 12 June 2013 18:28, Roland Jollivet roland.jolli...@gmail.com wrote:
If it's a piece of iron to you, then hack away. If you see value in it's
authenticity, then why not fix it up and re-sell it, and put the money
towards a more 'appropriate' machine. (presumably more recent)
Fixing it up
Very cool!
N. Christopher Perry
On Jun 12, 2013, at 17:50, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/6/12 Matt Shaver m...@mattshaver.com:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:17:05 +0200
Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
...and why isn't it promoted at http://linuxcnc.org?
Mostly because
I support the idea of using what you need and removing what you don't need.
I was going to use discarding instead of removing but when you get the to
shops you will see why I did not use discarding. :)
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:33 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 June 2013 18:28,
On 12 June 2013 23:07, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Found it!
http://store.blurrycustoms.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=46
Isn't that a complete replacement spindle?
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If you can't fix it, you don't own it.
http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto
On 06/12/2013 03:33 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 12 June 2013 18:28, Roland Jollivet roland.jolli...@gmail.com wrote:
If it's a piece of iron to you, then hack away. If you see value in it's
authenticity, then why not fix it up and re-sell it, and put the money
towards a more 'appropriate'
On 13 June 2013 00:22, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
If I may, my vote would be to restore the Rivett back to the original
condition. It seems to me to be the shortest path to having something of
value. If you need a CNC lathe, sell the Rivett, and buy an HNC or CHNC
which
Has anyone here worked on ultrasonic motors? I need to repair one (Canon
lens) and need some insight. Such as, is there something like a
continuity check to see what part of the motor might have a fault?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_motor
On 06/12/2013 04:43 PM, andy pugh wrote:
... snip
So, I have concluded that what I need is a conventional lathe, with a
large spindle bore, a set of rests, and that will fit in a small
space. In fact what I need is probably a Harrison M250, or better
still the M280 CNC trainer version.
...
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 00:43 +0100, andy pugh wrote:
On 13 June 2013 00:22, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
If I may, my vote would be to restore the Rivett back to the original
condition. It seems to me to be the shortest path to having something of
value. If you need a
Kirk Wallace wrote:
Has anyone here worked on ultrasonic motors? I need to repair one (Canon
lens) and need some insight. Such as, is there something like a
continuity check to see what part of the motor might have a fault?
Probably not. The piezo components are going to look like big
On 13 June 2013 01:21, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
Making the gears and other bits should not take a lot of magic. It
becomes a machining project instead of a software/electronics project.
But the result is rather tedious. Have you used a changewheel-only lathe?
Having said
Both of those require stepper motors and spindle sensing, that's the electronic
half-nut control, you would only have to add a thing or two more and you would
have a complete CNC setup.
Martin
From: bodge...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:48:02 +0100
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
On 06/12/2013 06:48 PM, andy pugh wrote:
... snip
One claims to have electronic half-nut control. Whatever that does. I
can't see any way for them to know where you have wound the carriage
back to, so I do think a threading indicator is still needed.
One is supposed to engage the half-nut when
On 06/12/2013 06:25 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Kirk Wallace wrote:
Has anyone here worked on ultrasonic motors? I need to repair one (Canon
lens) and need some insight. Such as, is there something like a
continuity check to see what part of the motor might have a fault?
Probably not. The piezo
Lovely! But, alas, out of my non-professional price range. I built my whole
machine for what that cost.
N. Christopher Perry
On Jun 12, 2013, at 18:07, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/6/12 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com:
I saw a really nice ATC as an add-on that fits the
Aside from hooking up / rigging up an LCR meter and checking the capacitance of
the various 'phases', there isn't much you can do. This measurement might
indicate a cracked piezo element or broken contact where the circuit looks like
a OC.
Mechanically, there might be excessive surface wear /
andy you will not find a finer headstock, i agree to leave it in a
condition that is readily convertable to original, but it is lacking enough
that oyu need a solution anyhow so , convert it and make use of it or sell
to someone that will restore it . i am going to cnc my 505 rivett in the
near
the above mentioned faro arm compares the product to the iges file and
verifies . these are nice the one i used was 17000 out of the box . they
are absolutely necessary for 5 axis swarfed surfaces on airframe parts . as
to point cloud to parametric solid i have no idea how to do that so i will
Den 13 jun 2013 05:21 skrev N. Christopher Perry
n_christopher_pe...@me.com:
Lovely! But, alas, out of my non-professional price range. I built my
whole machine for what that cost.
N. Christopher Perry
I know. Way too expensive. But it's at least an idea that could be
developed. There
Den 13 jun 2013 01:18 skrev andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com:
On 12 June 2013 23:07, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Found it!
http://store.blurrycustoms.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=46
Isn't that a complete replacement spindle?
Yes but it is made as a piggy back on a Chinese spindle.
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