[Emc-users] Pi with a side of SPI

2018-08-09 Thread Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users
Greg - To Gene - and list If the RPi can use SPI over a 250mm length cable at rated speed then it is a great option. No? How about a 150mm cable? If the signal can't get off the host PCB and to the target PCB reliably then the whole issue is a non starter moot point. Maybe if there was an

[Emc-users] Has anyone played around with this: Pi-paraport

2018-08-09 Thread Mark Johnsen
> > > > > The parport emulator is available, but why tie up 90% of the gpio, when > it can be done faster with just 4 wires? > > You have a point, but there's probably more paraport BOB's available than the 4 wires spi boards. Probably less $$ for a simple paraport BOB. But, I do like the SPI 4 w

Re: [Emc-users] Has anyone played around with this: Pi-paraport

2018-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 August 2018 20:30:19 Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users wrote: > Has anyone played around with this: Pi-paraport > > https://github.com/garlick/pi-parport > > I think on the pi-3b, spi is likely faster than a parport. Thats how I'm running a Sheldon Lathe > > I had been wondering if a

Re: [Emc-users] Has anyone played around with this: Pi-paraport

2018-08-09 Thread Chris Albertson
What to boot off a hard drive? Try "TFTP". The hard drive is physically connected to some other computer on your network and the Pi uses the network to access it. TSTP is the boot protocol used. At one place I used to work the IT department set up user desktop PCs to use TFTP to book a standa

[Emc-users] Has anyone played around with this: Pi-paraport

2018-08-09 Thread Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users
Has anyone played around with this: Pi-paraport https://github.com/garlick/pi-parport I had been wondering if a paraport emulator or an SSerial adapter could be made for the Pi GPIO The new question is can it be shoehorned into a realtime environment. I was thinking a ODroid XU4 imaged with

[Emc-users] CRS - Changelog

2018-08-09 Thread Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users
Mark; Way back when I was making the transition from Slackware to Red Hat I teamed up with another local fellow on a little project. He was much better with disciplined technique than I was. He kept a spiral notebook for each PC and would copy down the entire line, file path and date/time before

Re: [Emc-users] Success story and a question

2018-08-09 Thread jeremy youngs
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 2:59 AM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Well that's certainly a failure in design / programming by the > manufacturer. I'd have it so that when re-enabling Z the first and only > thing it would be able to do is rehome Z up so it knows w

Re: [Emc-users] Success story and a question

2018-08-09 Thread Chris Albertson
Why not do the same thing for "free" with a g-code processor that sets all Z coordinates to some constant. No hardware required, just a few lines of Python or whatever you like. On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:21 AM andy pugh wrote: > On 8 August 2018 at 03:17, Brent Loschen wrote: > > > And now for

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc run problems

2018-08-09 Thread Mark
On 08/09/2018 09:25 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: It's not a lathe, it's a saw beveler I know, I was here when you were building it, but for some reason I thought you were writing about a different machine. Can I blame it on oldtimers? Or as you stated in an earlier msg, CRS? BTDT, several times my

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc run problems

2018-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 August 2018 08:59:59 Mark wrote: > On 08/09/2018 08:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2018 07:23:58 Mark wrote: > >> On 08/07/2018 08:22 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: > >>> Joint 2 error on a 2 axis machine, hmm. > >>> Would it only have joint 0 & 1? > >>> Is it possible

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc run problems

2018-08-09 Thread Mark
On 08/09/2018 08:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2018 07:23:58 Mark wrote: On 08/07/2018 08:22 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: Joint 2 error on a 2 axis machine, hmm. Would it only have joint 0 & 1? Is it possible you opened a 3 axis config? J. Ray Mitchell Jr. “No thief, however ski

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc run problems

2018-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 August 2018 07:23:58 Mark wrote: > On 08/07/2018 08:22 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: > > Joint 2 error on a 2 axis machine, hmm. > > Would it only have joint 0 & 1? > > Is it possible you opened a 3 axis config? > > > > J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > > > “No thief, however skillful, can rob one o

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc run problems

2018-08-09 Thread Mark
On 08/07/2018 07:34 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: The following error really suggests a thread /configuration issue (latency gone bad, missing thread etc etc) Almost nothing interface hardware wise should be able to cause a following error. I would try out stepconfs test proceedure to verify

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc run problems

2018-08-09 Thread Mark
On 08/07/2018 08:22 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: Joint 2 error on a 2 axis machine, hmm. Would it only have joint 0 & 1? Is it possible you opened a 3 axis config? J. Ray Mitchell Jr. “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to a

Re: [Emc-users] Success story and a question

2018-08-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Well that's certainly a failure in design / programming by the manufacturer. I'd have it so that when re-enabling Z the first and only thing it would be able to do is rehome Z up so it knows where Z is. Even if the manual says the operator has to power cycle and rehome everything after using Z d