Re: [Emc-users] Expanding Foam Near Realtime CNC Control

2010-04-07 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Now that's pretty neat! Though I gotta tell ya, that foam on the FedEx package kinda looks like baby doo-doo. Yes, but if you paint it gold it makes it look beautiful :) What exactly will the finished product look like or do? Not sure exactly, the idea is to make an interactive

Re: [Emc-users] Expanding Foam Near Realtime CNC Control

2010-04-07 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Thanks for all the useful information everyone. I'll be sure to investigate the UV adhesive and different types of foam. On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:17 PM, j...@coats.org wrote: There is also a 'minimally expanding foam' available at big box home improvement stores for putting in confined spaces

[Emc-users] Expanding Foam Near Realtime CNC Control

2010-04-06 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Hi All, As I have been querying the list quite a bit with questions I thought I would post a project I have been working on with EMC. It uses the Axis Python Interface to control an Expanding Foam dispensing CNC machine in near-realtime:

Re: [Emc-users] Random Direction Changes

2010-04-03 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Just to follow up on this earlier post. But, I'm taking a bit of a wild guess and thinking that you are only driving ONE of the motor's two phases. This was indeed what the problem was. Using the method Jon suggested (below) we found there was no power coming into one phase of the motor. We

Re: [Emc-users] Random Direction Changes

2010-03-30 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Random Direction Changes darcys...@gmail.com pravi: Hi all, I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC machine that I have on loan. The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the settings I dug out from data sheets for the driver

[Emc-users] Random Direction Changes

2010-03-29 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Hi all, I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC machine that I have on loan. The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the settings I dug out from data sheets for the driver chips and motors. X and Y are working well, but Z (which has a similarly spec'ed

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port PC Card Disabled

2010-03-28 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Great link, solves some problems with otherwise strange hardware I believe. Thanks bookmarked for future reference. Much of this can be incorporated into the /etc/rc.d/rclocal file so it is done automatically at startup. You'll probably have to sudo yourself to edit that file.

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port PC Card Disabled

2010-03-25 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Wow, it worked! Thanks for the great tip Alex! Now the device is no longer [disabled] For anyone else facing this issue in the future I followed the instructions here: http://www.thecooltool.com/files/dateien_578.pdf Namely: --- A) The file 'emc2' in the

[Emc-users] jdi.py

2010-03-25 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Hi, I have a quick question regarding the jdi.py program by Jeff Epler. http://axis.unpy.net/01167419757 Is there a particular file structure that is required to run this? i.e. where should I be putting the jdi.py file? I note that the current folder and the ./lib/python folder is being added

[Emc-users] Parallel Port PC Card Disabled

2010-03-24 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Hi there, I am a new EMC2 user and am trying to configure a PCMCIA Card Parallel Port on a Compaq Presario v2000 laptop. I have read that the card can do CNC, so I am optimistic that it will work. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16839328010 The problem I am

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port PC Card Disabled

2010-03-24 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Thanks for your reply Gene. Karl, I have that feeling that this pcmcia card, and its chipset, may well be newer that what linux knows about. Well, the do have 'drivers' listed on the card's site: http://www.drivers-download.com/en/download.php?id=162did=93 Which are really just (somewhat

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port PC Card Disabled

2010-03-24 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Well, for one thing, you may not NEED for Linux to know anything about it beyond PCI enumeration, which I think is really done at BIOS initialization time, anyway. As long as you can find the I/O port addresses that the enumerator has mapped the ports to, you then edit that into your hal

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port PC Card Disabled

2010-03-24 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
did you check the on-board peripherals section of the BIOS, to make sure that the parallel port is enabled? Unfortunately the BIOS settings are very abbreviated and the only peripheral that can be enabled/disabled is the Wireless card! Karl

[Emc-users] NCapplet Java-based GUI for EMC

2010-03-13 Thread darcys...@gmail.com
Hi All, I have been researching different ways to control EMC programmatically and stumbled across code for 'NCapplet': http://www.docjar.org/html/api/emc/gui/NCapplet.java.html Which looks to be a pretty fully implemented Java GUI for EMC. There is no mention of a license or an author, and it