Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Travis Gillin
Anyone who is interested in this project, here is a link to a video up the UI making some cuts https://youtu.be/qyyjcHG_G4M On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 1:41:45 PM UTC-4, Travis Gillin wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > This is not a special version of Machinekit. This is merely a GUI like > Axis,

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Travis Gillin
Hi Chris, This is not a special version of Machinekit. This is merely a GUI like Axis, Touchy, Gmoccappy, etc. None of the currently available UI can run without X to my knowledge except for some Text based UI's. This makes running machinekit and controlling it on RPi or Beagle Bone without a

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Chris Albertson
One question about a GUI that draws to the frame buffer: How do you share the screen with other software? Here is a scenario. You boot the machine and I guess you get to the command like X11 is not started, Next you run the special version of MK that has the buffer writing GUI and you see

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Travis Gillin
Hey Schooner, I bet you are right, I was using a pre-build Beagle Bone Black image of and the headers were missing there. I'll install the other packages and I bet that will clear things up so when I get a chance to give that a shot I'll let you know if that solved the problem. I can add you

Re: [Machinekit] using hal_spi module

2018-09-24 Thread schoone...@gmail.com
Well, despite what /proc/cpuinfo says, I don't see how it can be a BCM2835 Soc. The elinux hardware history (https://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory) clearly shows the v3 B has a BCM2037 and even if you were sold an almost identical v2 B purporting to be a v3 B, it