Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ou have one (my mice don't and the click both left-and-right for middle doesn't seem to be working). You can also use <(left|right)-click> to bring up some configuration options for the xterm. I need to do this on some of my smaller screens to get text big enough for my old eyes to rea

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/26/2014 12:29 PM, Andrew wrote: > 2014-01-26 Charles Steinkuehler > >> The combined ubc3-joints_axes4 branch is relatively untested. Can you >> try using the latest ubc3 branch and see if it behaves any better? >> >> I used the same branch and config with the

Re: [Emc-users] Encoder Index Support Survey

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
get the encoder software taking less than 1 uS per loop, and I think I can implement it with a few instructions per signal (10-20 nS extra per bit) and have minimal overhead when disabled. The AB gating logic is out, if you don't think it's required. That makes things a *LOT*

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ck-plot display. You might also try dramatically lowering the thread rate to see if that's the problem. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- CenturyLin

[Emc-users] Encoder Index Support Survey

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
is necessary to support them all (more options = longer code = lower operating frequency). If you use encoders on your machine, what options do you have set for the HAL component, and (if you know) what is the maximum pulse frequency for your machine? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@s

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
to me, I'll probably wind up mostly copying one of the existing serial control programs designed to talk to the AVR controllers (ie: Pronterface, repetier host, etc). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
the X-Server and add significant lag to keyboard jogging (at least the way it's setup by default). Switching away from gremlin (ie: the DRO tab in Axis) restores the keyboard's normal response when jogging. With your updates, do you still see the keyboard lag, or does reducing the loa

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
master, and Xenomai code goes in UBC3. Michael Haberler usually keeps UBC3 pretty current with master, but IIRC he's off-line for a while having real-world adventures. You should be able to pull master into UBC3 with little or no problem so you can have the latest gscreen changes. Ho

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/25/2014 3:21 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 1/25/2014 3:43 PM, Chris Morley wrote: > >> I'm sure this screen still needs tweaks - it was actually only proof of >> concept, >> feel free to request changes/report bugs. > > Understood. It seems lik

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
into what ever > you are using - UB3? I'm running ub3, but I can pull from master. I'll let you know how it works! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
creen, which is apparently due to the second screen? I'm eagerly awaiting your modifications to delete the second screen and remove the back-plot. I'll test again when the new configs are available. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
UI interface guy...if it isn't hardware or assembly language, I should stay far away!* (*) Any rumors that I actually wrote some python code should be ignored as feeble attempts at vilification by my enemies! :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signa

Re: [Emc-users] CoreXY Kins and the BeagleBoneBlack with MachineKit

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
&y motors to deal with this. I imagine it would work similarly to how a > delta bot is configured. > > I just attached the config. If I need to post it in plain text just let me > know. > > > > On Friday, January 24, 2014 10:05 AM, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: >

Re: [Emc-users] CoreXY Kins and the BeagleBoneBlack with MachineKit

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
in the example K9 PRU > config. > > > > On Friday, January 24, 2014 5:02 AM, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: > > On 1/23/2014 10:53 PM, Joe Spanier wrote: >> Ok Got that figured out. Turns out my first issue was the >> core_xy_kins.c file was empty, so that wasnt help

Re: [Emc-users] CoreXY Kins and the BeagleBoneBlack with MachineKit

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
thank you for the help. When you start LinuxCNC with non-trivial kinematics, you're in joint mode by default, where you move each joint independently for homing. Once you've homed all the joints, switch to world mode and X/Y/Z jogs should work as expected going through the kinematics module.

Re: [Emc-users] CoreXY Kins and the BeagleBoneBlack with MachineKit

2014-01-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
build of LinuxCNC uses user-mode real-time threads. Just drop to a command line and run the comp command. If that doesn't get you un-stuck, post again and I'll see if I can't reproduce your error(s) and come up with a fix

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
backplot is optional: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/tklinuxcnc.html ...and it's mostly lacking "bells and whistles". :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit Gui

2014-01-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
k to it because it generates the fewest problems overall and I'm trying to work on lower-level stuff. If you do get a gscreen configuration working, let me know...I'm interested in trying it out if it's stable on the 'Bone. -

Re: [Emc-users] BBB 14: unexpected realtime delay on RT thread 1

2014-01-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ur machine setup. I did have to dial my acceleration down to around 2400 mm/s/s to avoid missing steps with some Slic3r generated infill gcode, but that had nothing to do with the BeagleBone, my steppers and drivers just weren't up to the task when running off 12V. -- Charles Steinkueh

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ritten to configure the GPIO as an output with that initial value. Note that this attribute *will not exist* if the kernel doesn't support changing the direction of a GPIO, or it was exported by kernel code that didn'

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone linuxcnc error loading after trying other GUI

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
etween. >> Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> ___ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.so

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
figure out the proper kernel GPIO values to change, you may find the following spreadsheet useful: https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-black-pinmux/blob/hal_pru_generic/pinmux.ods -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.as

Re: [Emc-users] HAL strings (was Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?)

2014-01-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
no mechanism for "configured once prior to startup and not changed at runtime", which is what you'd need to implement a string longer than 8 bytes. And using a double type as an 8-byte string is just all kinds of wrong, IMHO. I'll stick with an integer numbering scheme

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit and install

2014-01-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
t Chris Morley is currently working on a bunch of updates, including support for the BeagleBone. I'm also working on refactoring and cleaning up a bunch of the BeagleBone specific drivers that will make it much easier for anyone (human or machine) to generate a working configuration! :) --

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit and install

2014-01-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ges, which I know have the proper boot code to "chain-load" off of the SD card. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- CenturyLink Cloud: The

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit: IMG from 13 12 28

2014-01-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/11/2014 5:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2014 06:52:26 Charles Steinkuehler did opine: > >> Mike: If you're running into this problem, try formatting the SD card in >> a phone or camera or something to restore the FAT32 partitioning, and >> m

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit: IMG from 13 12 28

2014-01-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/11/2014 5:37 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 11 January 2014 11:04, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: >> There should be some Windows utility that will just write the 4G >> straight to the SD card, > > Different application, but Udoo suggest Win32DiskImager too: > Instr

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit: IMG from 13 12 28

2014-01-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/11/2014 1:56 AM, Mike Eitel wrote: > Charles Steinkuehler writes: > >> >> On 1/10/2014 11:21 AM, Mike Eitel wrote: >>> >>> I also send a detailed pm to you. Some days ago. >> >> Sorry, I must have missed it. Note that I don't typically

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/10/2014 10:19 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 11 January 2014 02:59, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: >> I think I've come up with a reasonable solution >> that will still work with HAL's limitations (only bit, integer, and >> float data types, so no strings). >

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
et to include the proposed numbering scheme: https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-black-pinmux/blob/hal_pru_generic/pinmux.ods -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

Re: [Emc-users] hal configuration pin existence with home switches BBB and BeBoPr-Bridge

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
halcmd show pin bb_gpio You probably want: bb_gpio.p8.in-09 ^ Note the leading zero on the pin number! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit: IMG from 13 12 28

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
card and doesn't try to "understand" the image. Only the decompression utility should be able to complain about crc errors. The disk imaging tool has no way of checking the image itself for errors, so if it's reporting problems it's either an issue with the SD card or the imagin

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/10/2014 9:33 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 1/10/2014 7:42 AM, Thomas Studwell wrote: >> > I can easily modify the PRU assembly and create a version that does > falling-edge step pulses for all step/dir generators. To use it, you > would simply point to the modified

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit: IMG from 13 12 28

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
time (it's a *LOT* faster than bulk writing 4G). Exactly what commands are you running to copy the image to your card, what is the exact error you received, and where in the process did it fail (when uncompressing the image, or when writing to the card)? -- Charles Steinkuehler c

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-- Original Message > Subject: Re: Re: [Emc-users] How do you change polarity of Step > Pulses in MachineKit stepgen? > Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 07:43:49 -0500 > From: Thomas Studwell > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > > > On 1/5/201

Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit : Active high Step pulses?

2014-01-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
l see if I can't tackle your step polarity issue while I'm making the other changes. What sort of time-frame are you working with? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control on BBB

2014-01-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
e listed in a spreadsheet I've got on github: https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-black-pinmux/blob/hal_pru_generic/pinmux.ods?raw=true Scroll all the way to the right for the LinuxCNC stuff. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@st

Re: [Emc-users] How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a few other things you can do with a hostmot2 stepgen). Also, since the PRU is running the "base thread", instead of the ARM, you can't use HAL to play with the outputs like you could if it was a typical x86 system. Anything dealing with timings faster than the servo thread needs to

Re: [Emc-users] Linear delta kinematics + stepper setup, BBB + BeBoPr+Bridge

2014-01-01 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
o you either need to move this signal to another pin, disable (or override) the HDMI pin multiplexing for PRU I/O 0, or just shorten the PRU task period and hope for the best (not recommended). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signat

Re: [Emc-users] linuxCNC BBB capeless

2013-12-31 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
imal, octal, binary, or anything else the C libraries recognize as an integer: https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-black-pinmux -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: Op

Re: [Emc-users] linuxCNC BBB capeless

2013-12-30 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Stepgens to > velocity mode since they are all created together via some pru_generic.bin > file. > Is there a way to pass this argument to this bin file or is there a way to > bypass the bin file and just create the stepgen on the fly? > > On Sunday, December 29, 2013, Charles Steinkuehler

Re: [Emc-users] BBB + BeBoPr-Bridge + linear delta kinematics

2013-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/29/2013 1:59 PM, Bas de Bruijn wrote: > > On 29 Dec 2013, at 20:40, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: > >> When I'm actively developing, I typically don't keep LinuxCNC on >> the SD card, but mount a remote NFS share where I usually have >> multiple

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2013-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
root filesystem is on the MMC which can't be read from anymore). If this is the problem you're having, it should be fixed in the -bone28 and newer kernels. I also just released a new image that uses the latest -bone33 kernel if you need to upgrade. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...

Re: [Emc-users] BBB + BeBoPr-Bridge + linear delta kinematics

2013-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ll be setup to run the build in that directory. Different shell windows can be setup to run different versions of LinuxCNC. If you want to do this, make sure to comment out where the rip-environment script is run at the end of /home/linuxcnc/.bashrc! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@

Re: [Emc-users] linuxCNC BBB capeless

2013-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
have to code up a frequency generator task for the PRU, unless the required frequency is low enough (below 200-300 Hz or so) you can generate it in the 1 KHz servo thread using the HAL software frequency generator. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Descripti

Re: [Emc-users] BBB + BeBoPr-Bridge + linear delta kinematics

2013-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a new image than rebuild, but YMMV. I also tend to keep around a bunch of SD cards for experimenting, some with JA4 and some with the plain UBC branch. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: linuxCNC BBB capeless

2013-12-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
r if you need help with this, or if a generic PWM generator is not an appropriate control signal. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Rapidly troubleshoot p

Re: [Emc-users] BBB + BeBoPr-Bridge + linear delta kinematics

2013-12-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
already in this branch, you just have to select it in your configuration file. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Rapidly troubleshoot pro

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: linuxCNC BBB capeless

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
(to either use the PRU to do software encoder tracking, or enabling the hardware encoder logic in the AM335x and linking it to HAL). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] properly set up the BBB with BeBoPr+

2013-12-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
audio lines, which are shared between the HDMI output and the P8/P9 connectors. Using the HDMIN version of the video output leaves the most pins free for other use. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2013-12-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
erent pin numbering schemes (even more if you count how the bb_gpio module names the exported pin signals). Feel free to clean this up and submit a patch! :) > Also, what is BB-LCNC-BEBOPRBR-00A0.dts file? This is the source file for the device tree overlay (dtbo) file. -- Charles Stein

Re: [Emc-users] temperature swings thermistor ADC

2013-12-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
e original BeBoPr board when used with a bridge board set * The BeBoPr+ * The BeBoPr++ use the BB-LCNC-BEBOPRBR-00A0 overlay. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: [Emc-users] temperature swings thermistor ADC

2013-12-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/22/2013 2:53 AM, bdebru...@luminize.nl wrote: > > On 2013-12-22 04:25, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> >> Exactly what does "swing wildly" mean? There is quite a bit of noise >> when using the on-chip A/D converter on the BeagleBone, but for me it

Re: [Emc-users] temperature swings thermistor ADC

2013-12-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
TI ADC that Bas has provisions for on the BeBoPr (see his github wiki for details). I haven't tried this myself, but I have the kernel modules available and it is reported to work quit well. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signa

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2013-12-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
value echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio/value ...if the I/O pin doesn't 'twiddle', you don't have the BeagleBone setup properly. If it does, LinuxCNC and the PRU code should be able to talk to it. If it's still not working, double-check the pin setting in HAL (which you can

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2013-12-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/21/2013 10:54 AM, Andrew wrote: > 2013/12/21 Charles Steinkuehler > https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=char...@steinkuehler.net> >> > >> Sorry, the comments are out of date. >> >> 0x4C is GPIO bank 1, pin 12, which is on c

Re: [Emc-users] More stepgens with BeagleBone

2013-12-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/21/2013 9:12 AM, Andrew wrote: > 2013/8/9 Charles Steinkuehler > >> Any I/O pins that are not already used by something else. The PRU code >> is capable of driving any pin in the 4 32-bit banks of GPIO, as well as >> the 16 directly-connected low-latency P

Re: [Emc-users] BBB & LinuxCNC again

2013-12-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
a 10 MB 3D print file with a few hundred thousand lines of gcode). Note that you can also use the null cipher (no encryption) with ssh, but you have to coerce both ends into allowing this. You can also just forward the raw X display without tunneling (I've verified this with the

Re: [Emc-users] FPGA dev board for Beaglebone

2013-12-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
k OK for this board, and it should also be very easy to craft an interface using the GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller), which is essentially a parallel 8 or 16 bit memory bus. So a bit of fiddling will probably be required, but nothing too major. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehl

Re: [Emc-users] Limiting Jerk

2013-12-17 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Y or Z, but all the 'interesting' moves include A. You do blend over three axis (XYZ), right? Is there an easy way to blend over XYA and leave Z as the odd-man out? If not, I'm not sure testing would really be that interesting, other than to prove the code properly falls back to the

Re: [Emc-users] Limiting Jerk

2013-12-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
. On 12/16/2013 9:50 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Araisrobo have implemented jerk limitation. I will forward you an email > from Yishin, there are some links to their source code. That email is more > than 2,5 years old :) > > Viesturs > > > 2013/12/16 Charles Steinkuehler

Re: [Emc-users] Limiting Jerk

2013-12-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
to experiment... On 12/16/2013 9:50 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:> Araisrobo have implemented jerk limitation. I will forward you an email > from Yishin, there are some links to their source code. That email is > more than 2,5 years old :) > > Viesturs > > > 2013/12/16 Charle

[Emc-users] Limiting Jerk

2013-12-16 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
If so, does the new trajectory planner with arc blending have jerk limiting too? I may be switching to that sooner than I expected. :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-13 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/13/2013 2:53 PM, Andrew wrote: > 2013/12/13 Charles Steinkuehler > >> using lightdm fixes the shutdown/reboot buttons too. > > Yes, I just forgot to mention it. > What other changes expected in the next Machinekit? General updates to the kernel and the Debian ins

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-13 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/13/2013 2:13 PM, Andrew wrote: > 2013/12/4 Charles Steinkuehler > >> Please try the following. At a command prompt run: >> >> sudo aptitude install lightdm >> >> When prompted to pick a default display manager, choose lightdm instead >> of xdm.

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/09/13 08:40, Chris Radek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:21:19AM -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > >> Also, the math only >> needs to happen on the endpoints, not every mS as the machine is moving >> along the commanded path. > > This is only true i

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/9/2013 6:55 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 9 December 2013 12:47, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: > >> So, the options are to add mechanical complexity simply to provide a way >> to get the bed level enough to print on > > On the Simpson it looks like that mechanis

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/08/13 23:21, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On 12/8/2013 9:47 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> I'm working on a non-Cartesian 3D printer controlled with LinuxCNC, and >> rather than level the print bed mechanically, I would like to measure a >> few points and transfor

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/08/13 11:12, andy pugh wrote: > On 8 December 2013 17:06, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: > >> I'll add the processing to the kinematics if I need to, but it seems >> like it should really be in the gcode processor. > > I disagree. G-code works in idealised

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/08/13 11:06, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > I really don't want to have to process the gcode file. The 3D printer > folks are getting around the limitations of their 8-bit micro-controller > based machine control systems by running pre-processors on the G-code. > If I

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/08/13 10:53, andy pugh wrote: > On 8 December 2013 16:47, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: > >> I went looking through the G-Code reference, but only saw stuff to deal >> with simple translations or maybe rotate around Z. > > https://code.google.com/p/grecode/ &g

[Emc-users] Coordinate Transform to Level Workbed

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
eal-time thread. -- Charles Steinkuehler -- Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/05/13 13:16, Andrew wrote: > > First I tried the solution from the thread > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2011-10/msg01232.html > No good for USB, though shutdown has been working. > > Now I tried lightdm, no success either. Hmm...lightdm fixes the shutdown and reboot GUI

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/2/2013 2:08 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 12/2/2013 1:45 PM, Andrew wrote: > >> More googling shows that the problem is much deeper. >> There's a solution in this thread >> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2011-10/msg01232.html &g

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
working by default on the MachineKit images if the fix isn't too messy. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems befor

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
t; the motion > controller, > I left it there. Makes sense, thanks for the history. Perhaps with the hacking taking place on motion and the path planner and whatnot, these can migrate to HAL where it seems like they belong. -- Charles Steinkuehle

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ld to get LinuxCNC built and running. But Debian has just about anything you might ever want, just "aptitude install ". -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: [Emc-users] BBB cape available

2013-12-01 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
on the options needed Great news! Congratulations!!! -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Mo

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-12-01 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
2.5.3, Scale values only for a stepper system. I suppose > since its for servo's, it might show more options on a servo system. The tuning screens I've pulled up only allowed you to change HAL values, not anything that's hard-coded only in the INI file (maximum acce

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-11-30 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
. So why *ARE* some machine constants in the INI file while others live in HAL? Couldn't motion just export a bunch of HAL parameters that get set like anything else (ie: PID servo settings and all other HAL stuff), or is there a reason these settings have to live outside HAL in

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-11-30 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
T* of repetition in the various HM2 examples, which could be collapsed into a single core file with a few modular tweaks if the INI parsing supported it. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
her auto-generated config files, I think this is a good option. I also think a simplified "flat" HAL/INI file setup is OK to require if you're going to use an automated config generation tool like StepConf. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Descrip

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 11/29/2013 6:27 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 11/29/2013 04:46 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> I know about the HAL options, I was wondering if there's any way to do >> something similar with the INI file itself. > > There's not. > > I know becau

Re: [Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 11/29/2013 3:30 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> I'm wanting to create modular LinuxCNC configurations to allow for easy >> modification by folks new to LinuxCNC. I can do fancy tricks with tcl >> for HAL files, but that doesn't let me u

[Emc-users] INI Tricks

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
r-to-understand variables or file includes or something, and get them to expand on loading into something LinuxCNC can parse. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ---

Re: [Emc-users] Manually Setting Motion Analog & Digital Output Values

2013-11-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
the cooling fan) a full override probably makes more sense. Or maybe even both with a GUI control panel... I'll play with the options and see what works, but would rather have been able to just: halcmd --Do_what_I_want_to_the_motion_outputs NewTemp ...or similar. :) Ah well... -- Char

[Emc-users] Manually Setting Motion Analog & Digital Output Values

2013-11-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ally if a program is running? It is important to be able to tweak some of these (particularly the temperature settings) based on how the print is progressing. Using the M1xx codes breaks blending, which causes "blobs" on the resulting print, or I wouldn't be trying to use the analog/d

Re: [Emc-users] a bit off topic BBB question

2013-11-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
on the BeagleBoard forums (where there are more folks with BeagleBone experience and knowledge vs. this list, which is focused on LinuxCNC). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Emc-users] 3d Printer question

2013-11-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
oftware.I have plenty of 3d models. For hardware, see: http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/p/hardware-capes.html For slicing software, checkout Slic3r, Cura, Skienforge, and KISSlicer, there's a decent (although a bit dated) review of them here: http://solidoodletips.wordpress.com/2012/12/03

Re: [Emc-users] Creating a boot SD for a BeagleBone?

2013-11-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 11/21/2013 10:34 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 11/20/2013 5:11 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> On 11/20/2013 3:10 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >>> On 11/20/2013 2:35 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >>>> RCN already has some switches to do part of this (see --spl and

Re: [Emc-users] Update HAL values without stalling motion

2013-11-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
ooth running of the head. I'm running a PID loop in HAL to control the temperature (and a few other things like fan speed). I need to be able to update the set values via gcode with minimal impact on overall motion. I'm hoping the G67 works better than M1xx codes, but haven't t

Re: [Emc-users] Update HAL values without stalling motion

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Yep, I think that will work! Now off to re-work my HAL setup and test it... Thanks! On 11/20/2013 4:22 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > I think you want > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode/m-code.html#sec:M67-Analog-Output > maybe... > > sam > On 11/20/2013 04:16 PM, Charles

[Emc-users] Update HAL values without stalling motion

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
top (or to stop for a lot less time than it takes to launch a sub-process running a shell script)? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Shape the Mo

Re: [Emc-users] Creating a boot SD for a BeagleBone?

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 11/20/2013 3:10 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 11/20/2013 2:35 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> >> RCN already has some switches to do part of this (see --spl and >> --bootloader, which affect the LOCAL_SPL, LOCAL_BOOTLOADER and >> USE_LOCAL_BOOT variables), but that

Re: [Emc-users] Creating a boot SD for a BeagleBone?

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 11/20/2013 11:42 AM, Kent Reed wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Charles Steinkuehler < > char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > >> I would _really_ like to create an SD imaging script that doesn't have >> to hit the internet to download files, but that req

Re: [Emc-users] Creating a boot SD for a BeagleBone?

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
st. I would _really_ like to create an SD imaging script that doesn't have to hit the internet to download files, but that requires fairly major surgery to RCN's scripts. Any volunteers? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: [Emc-users] Elapsed Time Clock

2013-11-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
That's exactly what I needed...THANKS! On 11/19/2013 3:11 PM, John Thornton wrote: > You can use the time component. It has a complete example on the man page. > > JT > > On 11/19/2013 2:28 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> I'm wondering how long it takes to ru

[Emc-users] Elapsed Time Clock

2013-11-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I'm wondering how long it takes to run some gcode programs and a way to track progress (other than the gcode window scroll bar). Is there an easy way to turn on or otherwise implement some sort of "Hobbs meter" for program execution? -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@s

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone black capeless CNC configuration

2013-11-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
r the extruder and bed heater of a 3D printer. If you're driving a conventional milling machine they typically aren't necessary. -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [Emc-users] beaglebone black capeless CNC configuration

2013-11-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
set the task period to something shorter than the 10 uS default. Let me know how many step/dir channels you need to run, and I'll try to verify how long the PRU task takes to execute (and thus a safe pru_period value). -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@ste

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