Re: [Emc-users] Tormach mill, unique design or Chinese inside?

2014-01-27 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/27/2014 10:16 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some > off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts? > > I think, from talking to the Tormach guys at some meetings, that it started out as made from some pret

[Emc-users] Tormach mill, unique design or Chinese inside?

2014-01-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts? -- WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable secu

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 1/27/2014 7:06 AM, John Prentice (FS) wrote: > Charles, Philipp, Mark- greetings > > >>> http://www.tormach.com/store/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=30616 >>> >>> It is configured with a geometric speed law on the spring-loaded ring. >>> You can jog at full rapid speed slowing to a crawl all

Re: [Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3

2014-01-27 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/27/2014 08:09 PM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: > We have MPG 'banging' on two machines that are tuned fast and I just found > the 'ilowpass' example fix online: > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/examples/mpg.html > > Looks to be a FIR filter. I had actually found the 'limit2' and 'limit3' > functio

Re: [Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3

2014-01-27 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:09:59 -0500 > From: Stephen Dubovsky > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: [Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3 > > We have MPG 'banging' on two machine

[Emc-users] MPG ilowpass vs limit2/3

2014-01-27 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
We have MPG 'banging' on two machines that are tuned fast and I just found the 'ilowpass' example fix online: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/examples/mpg.html Looks to be a FIR filter. I had actually found the 'limit2' and 'limit3' functions first to use as rate limiters when searching. There is

[Emc-users] Reading high count encoders at high speed.

2014-01-27 Thread Greg Bentzinger
Ok - another crazy idea from the popcorn gallery.   To use an analogy, Gecko Stepper drives work some math-o-magic in the internal FPGA to transition from 1/10 step mode to full step mode without loosing position.   An idea I had was to do something like that when trying to read high count encod

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit usb ssh

2014-01-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I'll admit the USB network setup can be handy at times (especially if you don't have a USB serial cable), but I haven't tried to get it setup. It shouldn't be too hard, since I believe RCN is enabling it in the Debian builds intended to replace the Angstrom disto loaded into the eMMC at the factor

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit usb ssh

2014-01-27 Thread Josiah Morgan
thank you for the help. I was just wanting to demonstrate the setup at a place where I wouldn't be able to get on a network for the demonstration. I guess I could always just bring my own router to go between my laptop (which wouldn't be connected to internet at the time) and the beaglebone. thanks

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit usb ssh

2014-01-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/27/2014 5:49 PM, Josiah Morgan wrote: > out of the box, you are able to ssh to a beaglebone over the usb to ip > address 192.168.7.2. > is it possible to do the same thing with the machinekit image installed? > if so, how? You have to enable the USB networking emulation, which IMHO is kind of

[Emc-users] beaglebone machinekit usb ssh

2014-01-27 Thread Josiah Morgan
out of the box, you are able to ssh to a beaglebone over the usb to ip address 192.168.7.2. is it possible to do the same thing with the machinekit image installed? if so, how? thanks -- Josiah Morgan, P.E. -- CenturyLink

[Emc-users] scale.comp

2014-01-27 Thread Konstantin Navrockiy
I have a question: does not it seem more logical default value coefficient "gain" in scale.comp = 1 ? pin in float gain = 1.0; http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=blob;f=src/hal/components/scale.comp;h=1517ce9b5ae29e270a06e67860cc19c3f6ae6204;hb=f5e02f6304b5b04d8840a2c3f95c852d458ac5d

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-27 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/27/2014 08:06 AM, John Prentice (FS) wrote: > The Contour product is of course aimed at video editing but does CNC very > well as it is practically impossible to accidentally move the machine. > Joysticks are a bit too easy to knock for my liking. > Well, I made a jog pendant with an MPG enco

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-27 Thread John Prentice (FS)
Charles, Philipp, Mark- greetings >> http://www.tormach.com/store/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=30616 >> >> It is configured with a geometric speed law on the spring-loaded ring. >> You can jog at full rapid speed slowing to a crawl allowing touch-off >> to a "tenth" very quickly and safe

Re: [Emc-users] Conversion Suggesions?

2014-01-27 Thread Mark Wendt
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > I just don't worry about this "idiot" problem. If you've > seen the picture of the $600 million NOAA weather > satellite that fell over and got smashed in 2003, I > just know that no matter HOW stupid a mistake I > ever make, it will NEVER com