[Emc-users] next big thing

2014-02-25 Thread a k
hi i want to build deposition head for regular cnc mill to transfer mill into reprap . to make cnc mill faster in rep rap deposition, head will have 2 axis. if cnc mill has 3 axis xyz and deposition head will have 2 more axis A and B so whole machine - reprap unit total axis 5. on my machine i use

Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2014-02-25 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Interesting Mr Wallace, could you post some example files for us that are slow on the uptake please :) On 2014-02-26 02:40, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 11/07/2013 03:15 AM, Russell Brown wrote: >> I've been playing around with camview and a little 10mm endoscope type >> USB camera to see if I could

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 2/25/2014 7:21 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 2/25/2014 8:16 AM, Dave Cole wrote: >> >> I'm sure it would depend upon how Xylotex or others are implementing >> their cape.. >> >> BTW, I'm curious; Does anyone know who came up with the term "cape" ?? >> That seems totally non-obvious to me,

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 2/25/2014 7:16 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > > I'm sure it would depend upon how Xylotex or others are implementing > their cape.. > > BTW, I'm curious; Does anyone know who came up with the term "cape" ?? > That seems totally non-obvious to me, compared to "add-on board", > "daughter board", etc. > Di

[Emc-users] Startup error when switched to 10.04

2014-02-25 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello guys. I'm having a silly problem with a machine that's not mine but from another person that sometimes require us to do certain jobs. The thing is, the machine had a regular HDD that died a few days ago and it was running Linux 8.04 with LCNC 2.4 now we installed 10.04 with 2.5.0 with a sol

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
Hi, http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commit;h=39db4d1f16be2a3715d95c72eec8fa180bc91233 regards, Michael W dniu 26.02.2014 00:22, Jeff pisze: > Hi Peter, > >Not being a LinuxCNC developer, I know little about "branches" etc. I > went to git.linuxcnc.org where I figured stuff

Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2014-02-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 11/07/2013 03:15 AM, Russell Brown wrote: > > I've been playing around with camview and a little 10mm endoscope type > USB camera to see if I could rig such a thing up as an edge finder > permanently mounted my mill's head. If you are having trouble finding camview, I have had some success usin

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Jeff
Hi Peter,   Not being a LinuxCNC developer, I know little about "branches" etc.  I went to git.linuxcnc.org where I figured stuff might be, but couldn't find anything related to hm2_7i90.  Right now, I'm basically using the software provided with the MachineKit, and it doesn't seem to have 7i90

Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2014-02-25 Thread Billy Huddleston
http://psha.org.ru/git/ is the only site I've found the camview stuff on.. but, not sure where the halio is.. I found a halio.c file here.. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Adding_Digital_Zoom_To_Camview-Emc No instructions on how to compile it.. On 02/25/2014 05:07 PM, Gene Heskett w

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:41:58 -0500, you wrote: >Even the cheapest smart drive ( I don't consider Gecko servo drives to >be smart ) I have used has jerk limiting built in which will take the >edges off those accel spikes/accel violations. >But that can also cause motion deviations away from the

Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2014-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 February 2014 16:58:44 Billy Huddleston did opine: > I've been looking ALL over for this plugin.. Did you find it Richard ? > > On 11/14/2013 02:04 PM, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: > > Where can I find halio plugin? > > > > Richard I have it on one or both of my machines. ATM IIRC

Re: [Emc-users] USB Camera for edge finder?

2014-02-25 Thread Billy Huddleston
I've been looking ALL over for this plugin.. Did you find it Richard ? On 11/14/2013 02:04 PM, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: > Where can I find halio plugin? > > Richard > > -- > DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Service

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:14:35 -0800 (PST) > From: Peter C. Wallace > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014,

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:45:20 -0700 > From: Sebastian Kuzminsky > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc > > On 2/25/14 12:29 , Pe

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/25/14 12:29 , Peter C. Wallace wrote: > I forgot one detail: for EPP interfaced hostmot2 on preconfigured FPGA cards > you want to use the hm2-7i90 branch. Im hoping the features in hm2_7i90 > can be merged with the hm2_7i43 driver so there is a common hm2_epp driver > for all EPP interfaced H

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Jeff
Hi,    Thanks, I'll look in to the 7i90 branch and see what I can do with that.  I'm pretty (very) new at both LinuxCNC internals and VHDL, so a base to start from is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jeff    While I do have a flash SPI on the FPGA board, I haven't populated it (or tested it), a

Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-02-25 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
> It would be pretty awesome to read the DRO data from LinuxCNC... :) That would be pretty trivial w/ mesa boards (or any other hardware w/ encoder inputs.) SMD -- Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco cer

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
I forgot one detail: for EPP interfaced hostmot2 on preconfigured FPGA cards you want to use the hm2-7i90 branch. Im hoping the features in hm2_7i90 can be merged with the hm2_7i43 driver so there is a common hm2_epp driver for all EPP interfaced HostMot2 cards. Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Jeff wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:37:38 -0800 From: Jeff Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Subject: Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc Hi,  Some info about the FPGA boards on my site: At this point,

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Jeff
Hi,  Some info about the FPGA boards on my site: At this point, the FPGA boards I have listed don't have any released software support to go with them.  I'm going to work on making a library for simple I/O. This version of the board uses the same BBB I/O pins that Charles's MachineKit uses for

Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-02-25 Thread Sven Wesley
It would be pretty awesome to read the DRO data from LinuxCNC... :) 2014-02-25 15:27 GMT+01:00 Mark Wendt : > Yeah, I thought it was a pretty slick little idea. > > Mark > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Dave Cole > wrote: > > > Very cool! > > > > Android and the pocket computers/phones/tabl

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Len Shelton
I read somewhere that it came from Wonder Dog who wore a cape and was a beagle. >Len On 2/25/2014 11:44 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/25/2014 11:25 AM, Dave Cole wrote: >> I guess that... almost makes sense to me.. ;-) >> >> Dave >> >> On 2/25/2014 11:05 AM, Ron Ginger wrote: >>> The Arduino h

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/25/2014 11:25 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > I guess that... almost makes sense to me.. ;-) > > Dave > > On 2/25/2014 11:05 AM, Ron Ginger wrote: >> The Arduino has shields as the add-om board, so I guess a cape was sort >> of the other side of the shield. >> >> The name comes from the shape of the

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Cole
I guess that... almost makes sense to me.. ;-) Dave On 2/25/2014 11:05 AM, Ron Ginger wrote: > The Arduino has shields as the add-om board, so I guess a cape was sort > of the other side of the shield. > > ron ginger > > > On 2/25/2014 9:19 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> D

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, andy pugh wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:47:18 + > From: andy pugh > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope > > On 25 February 2014 11:08, Al

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Ron Ginger
The Arduino has shields as the add-om board, so I guess a cape was sort of the other side of the shield. ron ginger On 2/25/2014 9:19 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Dave Cole > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc > To:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Me

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
Video clearly shows 2 different computers. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, John Kasunich wrote: > I think (and Sam can probably confirm) that he was using > two separate computers in both cases. > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Steve Stallings wrote: > > Also wonder if there is any conce

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread John Kasunich
I think (and Sam can probably confirm) that he was using two separate computers in both cases. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Steve Stallings wrote: > Also wonder if there is any concern if the > LinuxCNC looking at LinuxCNC is taking > synchronized readings thus avoiding one source > of jitte

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Steve Stallings
Also wonder if there is any concern if the LinuxCNC looking at LinuxCNC is taking synchronized readings thus avoiding one source of jitter, while LinuxCNC looking at Mach3 is two different computers with independent timing. Steve Stallings > -Original Message- > From: andy pugh [mailto:b

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Cole
On 2/25/2014 9:21 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > apparently can't just call it a daughter-card or add-on-module because > the target audience is creative types who need to be shielded (pun > intended) from such harsh real-world concepts.:) And we wonder why people get confused when they overhea

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Josiah Morgan
I have the logi-bone on order as well. that is what made me think of how I could use it for linuxcnc as well of other projects of course. I don't write vhdl for a living so all that is still slightly foreign but fascinating to me. keep us in the loop on your efforts with the logi-bone as well as t

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 2/25/2014 7:45 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote: > I noticed that xylotex has an fpga cape in the works for beaglebone black. > (as well as other similar items from other sources) > I was curious if anyone was looking into the implementation of such fpga > capes into a linuxcnc build. > also, what would

Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Wendt
Yeah, I thought it was a pretty slick little idea. Mark On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > Very cool! > > Android and the pocket computers/phones/tablets etc have such great > potential > > Thanks for sharing that. > > Dave - So many ideas ... so little time. > > > On 2/2

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 2/25/2014 8:16 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > > I'm sure it would depend upon how Xylotex or others are implementing > their cape.. > > BTW, I'm curious; Does anyone know who came up with the term "cape" ?? > That seems totally non-obvious to me, compared to "add-on board", > "daughter board", etc

Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Cole
Very cool! Android and the pocket computers/phones/tablets etc have such great potential Thanks for sharing that. Dave - So many ideas ... so little time. On 2/25/2014 8:53 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: > A pretty neat project with an Android: > > http://www.yuriystoys.com/p/android-dro.html >

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Cole
I'm sure it would depend upon how Xylotex or others are implementing their cape.. BTW, I'm curious; Does anyone know who came up with the term "cape" ?? That seems totally non-obvious to me, compared to "add-on board", "daughter board", etc. Did that arrive out of a language translation? Or

[Emc-users] Little OT, but...

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Wendt
A pretty neat project with an Android: http://www.yuriystoys.com/p/android-dro.html Mark -- Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFl

[Emc-users] beaglebone fpga with linuxcnc

2014-02-25 Thread Josiah Morgan
I noticed that xylotex has an fpga cape in the works for beaglebone black. (as well as other similar items from other sources) I was curious if anyone was looking into the implementation of such fpga capes into a linuxcnc build. also, what would be the benefits and drawbacks to the addition of thi

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 February 2014 08:41:05 Viesturs Lācis did opine: > 2014-02-25 12:47 GMT+02:00 John Alexander Stewart : > > Steve; > > > > Despite what those figures appear to show, Mach's output behaves > > better > > > > > than LinuxCNC's. It sounds much much smoother. I posted many moons > > > a

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Cole
Ha ha.. I saw you and Rob raising hell on the Mach3 email list.. ;-) That was a very interesting exchange, and Art jumped in, which was nice. The results are VERY interesting. The accel violations; Mach3 has always bent the rules a bit and gotten away with a lot of stuff simply because steppe

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread sam sokolik
Granted - I might have some issue somewhere I am not thinking of.. But.. A few manual calculations of the velocity plot from the mesa encoders seem to confirm the calculations.. sam On 2/25/2014 5:47 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 25 February 2014 11:08, Alex Joni wrote: >> Since it's hardware co

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread sam sokolik
The velocity is coming right from the mesa. I am calculating the acceleration over a longer time frame (aprox 36ms iirc) because if I calculate it every ms - it is pretty much noise... (because of thread jitter and 'stuff') With linuxcnc testing - It compares pretty closely to its internal ha

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 February 2014 11:08, Alex Joni wrote: > Since it's hardware counters on the 7i80, you can trust them pretty much. Are we absolutely sure that the velocity/accel is being calculated from a stable clock unaffected by any ethernet comms latency or servo-thread jitter? -- atp If you can't fix

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Alex Joni wrote: > > > Sam, > > > > How are you getting LinuxCNC to monitor and log Mach's processes? > > > > Sam explained that in his first email: > > There's a second LinuxCNC machine with a 7i80 attached > (http://www.mesanet.com/pdf/parallel/7i80dbman.pdf) -

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:27 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > I am testing a 7i80. The hardware encoder counters will read step/dir. > I am using the position and velocity output for plotting and calculating > acceleration. (so - I just have one linuxcnc setup as if I had > 'step/dir' encoders hooked u

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Joni
- Original Message - From: "Mark Wendt" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:03 PM, sam sokolik > wrote: > >> I am surprised people still put u

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread sam sokolik
I am testing a 7i80. The hardware encoder counters will read step/dir. I am using the position and velocity output for plotting and calculating acceleration. (so - I just have one linuxcnc setup as if I had 'step/dir' encoders hooked up to it.) sam On 02/25/2014 04:16 AM, Mark Wendt wrote

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread sam sokolik
I did not think linuxcnc had an issue. Maybe rose colored glasses.. ;) Part of the issue is you thought the current TP behaviour was a 'bug' while it just was performing as designed. The 1 segment look ahead doesn't work as well as you get into higher speeds/shorter segments. My eyes where

Re: [Emc-users] 5 phase stepper driver

2014-02-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-02-24 22:50 GMT+02:00 andy pugh : > found these earlier today answering a forum thread: > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321302774338 > Thank you very much for the link! I tried searching in ebay before posting, but just like always - correct keywords are crucial for any meaningful results... V

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-02-25 12:47 GMT+02:00 John Alexander Stewart : > Steve; > > Despite what those figures appear to show, Mach's output behaves better > > than LinuxCNC's. It sounds much much smoother. I posted many moons ago > > > > Does the TP work change that? Probably makes the old comparison invalid. It

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Steve; Despite what those figures appear to show, Mach's output behaves better > than LinuxCNC's. It sounds much much smoother. I posted many moons ago > Does the TP work change that? Probably makes the old comparison invalid. > Well done Rob for taking this on and shame to those who buried the

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:03 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > I am surprised people still put up with me... I do have a lot of help > from the community. The compact 5 configs using the latch and dual > stepgens would not have been possible if not for Jeff and Chris's > smarts.. (I am the big picture

Re: [Emc-users] Fun with trajectory planners and Halscope

2014-02-25 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:09:15 -0600, you wrote: >On 02/24/2014 10:03 PM, sam sokolik wrote: >> I am surprised people still put up with me... I do have a lot of help >> from the community. The compact 5 configs using the latch and dual >> stepgens would not have been possible if not for Jeff and C