Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/29/2016 1:39 AM, Daren Schwenke wrote: > I had assumed the buggy ADC kernel driver was a known issue.. Yes and no. The kernel ADC driver has had problems for a long time, but it hasn't previously just died. The buggy behavior I experienced when first working with the BBB was limited to occ

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Beagle Bone Version

2016-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/22/2016 8:30 PM, Merik Karman wrote: > > When I do a apt-get upgrade it looks to install a bunch of updates but keeps > back machinekit and machinekit-xenomai among others. > Should I run a dist-upgrade? Yes, if you want the latest Machinekit packages. You have to run dist-upgrade because

Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Jonathan Cohen
So is there some sort of consensus that 3.8 is a better bet in terms of stability than the most current iteration ? On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 8:26:32 PM UTC-5, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > On 12/28/2016 9:59 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote: > > > > Maybe it's a naive question, in that if

Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/29/2016 7:41 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote: > So is there some sort of consensus that 3.8 is a better bet in terms of > stability than the most current iteration ? Not really. 3.8.13 is the kernel version with Xenomai patches, which are required for hard real-time performance. There are now Xe

Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 12/29/2016 7:41 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote: >> So is there some sort of consensus that 3.8 is a better bet in terms of >> stability than the most current iteration ? > > Not really. 3.8.13 is the kernel version with Xenomai patches,

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Is anyone using a WHB04 Handwheel?

2016-12-29 Thread Mathias Giacomuzzi
Okay, many thanks. mathias -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[Machinekit] Joint/Axis merge?

2016-12-29 Thread Mathias Giacomuzzi
Hello, Are there any plans to merge the linuxcnc joint axis to machinekit? Especially for delta printers it would be supposedly an improvement what I've read. thx -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received th

Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/29/2016 9:12 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Charles Steinkuehler >> >> There are now Xenomai patches for some 4.x version ARM kernels, >> if some adventuresome soul cares to try and make this work. :-) > > You should checkout this.. ;) > > cd /opt/scripts/tool

Re: [Machinekit] eQEP closed loop spindle with index and both directions problem

2016-12-29 Thread Sag ich Dir nich
Sorry for not posting for so long but i had to make a break, as far as i still know in halscope the raw counter works correctly but the encoder signal is captured very irregular, i might look directly at the contacts with a oscilloscope. I did even put pull-up resistors in the wires, like the m

Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 12/29/2016 9:12 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Charles Steinkuehler >>> >>> There are now Xenomai patches for some 4.x version ARM kernels, >>> if some adventuresome soul cares to try and make this work

Re: [Machinekit] ADC and printing issues on the Beaglebone CRAMPS

2016-12-29 Thread Daren Schwenke
I wasn't actually suggesting to use the library, although I suppose that would work too. I (personally) was just trying to deconstruct the PRU ADC bits to generate something like what Charles has created in hal_pru_generic/pru_generic.bin. We have a completely unused PRU currently, so I wouldn