[Machinekit] Re: BeagleBone local setup - Black screen with cursor after graphical login

2020-05-04 Thread Jeff Pollard
Hi, Some versions of MachineKit do not come with the desktop environment installed. I'm not sure if that is the problem you are encountering, but I had a similar problem before. I installed lxde as a desktop (remotely) then rebooted, and I got a desktop display after logging in. Jeff O

Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit + Ros for Scorbot Er-3

2020-05-04 Thread John Morris
Hi Tom, You've had some good advice on the low-level HAL integration already. Once you have all your joints and I/O connected up to HAL and you're ready to connect the robot up to MoveIt! and the rest of ROS, check out the hal_ros_control software [1] that @luminize, @machinekoder and I have