Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On Mon, 6/24/13, Chris Radek wrote: > Your real constraints are not rectangular, but you'll need to inscribe a > rectangle and use that. What would be very useful is a way to "train" the system by manually moving the machine to its limits then clicking a button. *Very* useful for a machine wi

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 07:19:52PM -0500, Bart Dring wrote: > > http://pumpingstationone.org/2013/06/cnc-gonzo-build-2-recap/ Interesting machine! > We are having trouble getting it to work in EMC. When we turn on the > machine in EMC, both carriages immediately race at full speed towards the >

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello, I am Tom Powderly from Elgin IL I knew of PumpStationOne, but it wasn't close ( or free ;) anyway, lets simplify a complex problem a bit 1) try to find an original yourkins.c or reconstruct it ( gotta be done anyway) rest of comments are interspersed inline On 06/22/2013 07:19 PM, Bart

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-23 Thread Jack Coats
Just a hint: The reason for making a copy of trivkins to mykins and use mykins instead of trivkins is if you upgrade/update trivkins may be get updated, your updates will be lost. Just good software hygene. -- This SF.ne

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/6/23 Bart Dring > > There is a link to our kinemantics file at the link above. (We just > modified trivkins.c). At this point I think it has been hacked beyond our > initial successes, to completely broken. > > 1. For this type of machine, what do we return for kinematicsType()? > I would

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Andrew
2013/6/23 Bart Dring https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=bdr...@buildlog.net> > > There is a link to our kinemantics file at the link above. (We just > modified trivkins.c). At this point I think it has been hacked beyond our > initial successes, to completely broken. > Hi, Fi

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/22/2013 7:19 PM, Bart Dring wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with a group of CNC builders at the Chicago > HackerSpace Pumping Station One. We are building a "simple" 2D > drawing machine. The machine uses 2 belt driven carriages on a > single linea

Re: [Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 June 2013 19:19, Bart Dring wrote: > 4. Can everything be done in the mykin.c file or do I need to modify other > areas of the HAL. Try this kins file here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Koppi's_Toy -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

[Emc-users] Kinematics - Help Our HackerSpace

2013-06-22 Thread Bart Dring
Hi, I am working with a group of CNC builders at the Chicago HackerSpace Pumping Station One. We are building a "simple" 2D drawing machine. The machine uses 2 belt driven carriages on a single linear bearing. You can see the details of the machine at this link. http://pumpingstationone.org/2013