Roland TS-30

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25 Oct 2017 11:28 - 25 Oct 2017 11:34 #100786 by RVX
Roland TS-30 was created by RVX
Hola here victor from Germany,
I had recently purchased this great item for my univ, and i would really enjoy using this machine under LinuxCNC.
When connect this to the konsole i get the following readings as a printer:

Oct 25 12:41:31 rvxmint kernel: [ 713.846054] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-pci
Oct 25 12:41:31 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.073914] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0b75, idProduct=0255
Oct 25 12:41:31 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.073918] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Oct 25 12:41:31 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.073921] usb 3-1: Product: TS-30
Oct 25 12:41:31 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.073923] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Roland DG
Oct 25 12:41:31 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.073926] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 001
Oct 25 12:41:32 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.525642] usblp 3-1:1.0: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x0B75 pid 0x0255
Oct 25 12:41:32 rvxmint kernel: [ 714.525779] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
Oct 25 12:41:37 rvxmint kernel: [ 719.602074] usblp1: removed
Oct 25 12:41:37 rvxmint kernel: [ 719.632124] usblp 3-1:1.0: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x0B75 pid 0x0255

I had also made the following photos of the main board for the 3 axix steppers and the spindle.
I'm guessing that the USB might be just a USB to parallel port adapter, connected by the white flat cable.
If this is true we could make the configuration much easier.
Thank you very much for your time!
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26 Oct 2017 15:22 #100837 by andypugh
Replied by andypugh on topic Roland TS-30
It looks like it might be USB-to-parallel but if it is I doubt that the data format is simple step/dir pulses.
I rather imagine that it is sending data (like the Pico and Mesa EPP cards do)

Do you have access to an oscilloscope or logic analyser to test this?

I suspect that it will be easier to swap the Roland driver board for one of the cheap 3-axis driver boards from eBay or similar.

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26 Oct 2017 15:39 #100838 by RVX
Replied by RVX on topic Roland TS-30
Hola Andy!
Thanks for your fast answer.
I have with me a 4ch Rigol DS1074 100mhz scope and i could get also a 10ch. logic analyser.
I have also consider the idea of use some cheap 3axis boards + Baglebone-pru, but i thought could be also a good possibility to use the system its already there and maybe just produce in the lab the USB interface, luckilly I´m not in a hurry for this and I could document the process so other could benefit from this (?)
So any ideas are very wellcome!
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26 Oct 2017 22:21 #100859 by andypugh
Replied by andypugh on topic Roland TS-30
Maybe you could just use it on the USB control, and not use LinuxCNC?

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