Arduino based USB Pendant for Linuxcnc

You guys see the new Arduino? They are a pendant waiting to happen.

arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardEsplora

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Awesome post, I would love to have a quadrature rotary encoder linked to a 4DSystems touchscreen for a pendant, the touchscreen being the buttons and also displaying position.

The touchscreen has a microcontroller on board that communicates with the outside world using using serial.

My issue is I am new to linuxcnc, can only do very basic programming and so I am wondering if me trying to do this is feasible?

Thanks

Richard

Hi.
i think it is much easier than that
Why do you want an pendant with touchscreen ?

I do have an lcd for my info and have a lot of buttons fro jog start stop pause and so on
and an quadrature encoder for jogging itself
so i dont know what the lcd should be good for
if you think of haveing all your display as touchsscreen it is also possible
and the pendant is the quadrature only that is ou of the box
thomas

Touchscreen is fashionable.

Dear ArcEye!

You Have done a Great Job but i need a little Help from Your side.

I am a Near 50 year old millmen with poor english knowlege and no idea of Coding. My best friend is the Leodic ^^

i have Build your Pendant and want to run it but i find no way where i should put the

ArcEye wrote:
serialcon.comp

I Have Done "sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-dev"
I have given the missing moduls of arduino in the library

but where i must i put the comp with directory does you mean?

i have try to read the manual hal component generator but i dont find a way to place them
where must i put a code to start the component

my first attempt wars verry unusefull so i have to reinstall Linuxcnc i crash't them complete

please can you give a little help to get them run

thank you and have a good day
Franz

Hi

Copy the file serialcon.comp to your config folder for the machine using the pendant. Could be anywhere but that is most logical.

In a terminal cd to that config directory and use the command
sudo comp --install serialcon.comp

That will build the userspace module and copy it to /usr/bin, for your type of install

The line loadusr -W serialcon goes in your postgui.hal file normally and then you join up the pins as required, as per the previous posts

regards