Need a programmer for help with custom machine/interface

Been working on a machine for some time now, biggest thing holding me up has been the custom programming. Had a friend helping me out for some time but he no longer has time for it. All the major things are reasonably well sorted, just some python bugs and minor things that need to be added yet. It's a dedicated machine with a dedicated purpose running a GUI that I built. The nuances of LinuxCNC and machine control make it difficult for me to find reasonable help with this. There's some coin involved if anyone is looking for a project.

If I need help with my mill I do as you suggested in the appropriate section of the forum. This is a bit different than that, I'm not looking for suggestions on how I can fix small portions of the code when I'm not a programmer. Looking to work with 1 person that knows what they're doing to get this finished up in a solid manner.

I can help. See mail.

you shoudt first get a look at all now integreated
GUI
likegemoccapy
there are examples of qivcp

see silverdragon
Industrial
gaxis

....
plasmac

tommylight wrote:

This brings back memories of "Blender style GUI for Linuxcnc " or something simmilar, it's very short glory and it's inevitable and monumental demise.
What a pitty !

What on earth are you talking about? You have really got the wrong idea bud.

First of all it's normal to ask someone for help to provide a custom user interface.
Some of us are not good coders, or have no skills for this and just want a working custom designed machine interface.

In the past i was new to linux and linuxcnc, I had no clue about coding, so i understand the question related to Blazini36.
Making your own gui and understand the linuxcnc code can take about 1 to 2 years.

My advise to Blazini36 is the following :

1. You have a almost working gui, open source, provide your code and we can help to solve error's.
2. You can search for coders. I don't know Fixer, but if he can help you. Why not....
3. Don't be afraid to provide your code. In the end, everything will be open source.

pl7i92 wrote:

you shoudt first get a look at all now integreated
GUI
likegemoccapy
there are examples of qivcp

see silverdragon
Industrial
gaxis

....
plasmac


I run gmoccapy on my mill and I've tweaked it some with auto probing and buttons to control the "spindle-monitor" component that we added to the repo. The machine and it's UI are fully functional, there's just a couple of unfinished things that need attention. These aren't functions that are used in anything that people building a LinuxCNC machine are using so regardless of how customizeable a UI is, the programming behind it doesn't exist.

Grotius wrote:

First of all it's normal to ask someone for help to provide a custom user interface.
Some of us are not good coders, or have no skills for this and just want a working custom designed machine interface.

In the past i was new to linux and linuxcnc, I had no clue about coding, so i understand the question related to Blazini36.
Making your own gui and understand the linuxcnc code can take about 1 to 2 years.

My advise to Blazini36 is the following :

1. You have a almost working gui, open source, provide your code and we can help to solve error's.
2. You can search for coders. I don't know Fixer, but if he can help you. Why not....
3. Don't be afraid to provide your code. In the end, everything will be open source.

I think I've seen a post or 2 of some of one of your machines or UI's I recall it being a pretty serious looking machine. I recall it being a very large plasma cutter or router or something. There's one fundamental difference between anything you do for that machine and things you open source that you've started. Those types of machines are built on the same principals that almost all machines LinuxCNC runs is built on. Almost anything you could open source would be useful to plenty of people and could get some traction by people who want to build something similar, and that only helps your use case. Judging by the quality of the machine I recall seeing I'd assume maybe you sell them. If that were the case for me I'd do the same, the GUI that comes with the machine is just a cool bonus it's the machine that is the thing you might be actually interested in selling.

Personally The GUI in and of itself has been done for a long time, I made that as well as a GTK3 version I probably won't ever be able to use as it seems to have been abandoned. There's alot of Python programming well beyond the GUI that really has not much at all to do with LinuxCNC. I did respond to Fixer, as that's what I'm looking for so I'll see how that goes.

I catch flack sometimes for the non-opensourcyness of my little project almost everytime I post something about it. I kind of understand that but at the same time it's not actually justified. I build a not too large machine that's fairly neat with only the nuances being complex. It's based solely on a specific niche industry and it's movements simple but positioning is fairly complicated just because of the situations it serves. The GUI is solely based on machine vision cameras and serving it's display. It's a system that's been done 100 times in this industry but this is my take on it. I use LinuxCNC as a backend for machine control, there's several thousand lines of code that actually run everything else. You couldn't even start the program without satisfying the camera requirements, it needs to see them. I don't sell anything, I just keep in the back of my mind that one day maybe I can.

If I dumped the entire program on the internet as "open source" what do I achieve? Some company can have a damn near ready made solution for doing exactly what this machine does. The fundamental issue with open source is that people use and improve upon what they are interested in and want to use. I sincerely doubt that anyone would just fix the little Python things specific to my machine. If anything they'd just pull the camera handling stuff and "virtual axis" thing I have going on out and play with that......but that's all sorted since that's fundamental to the basics of the machine. I don't know enough about actual programming to just pop portions of it out and open source it and I wouldn't just dump the whole code for reasons I just explained.

However that sounds is how it sounds, the thing is is that if someone were like "hey, If I can take a look at that specific portion of code I'll pack it up and open source it" I really wouldn't have a problem with that but obviously that person has to make certain promises.

I don't write programs but I certainly do open source things as we're all part of that community. I've been dabbling in PCB design .....mostly for this machine. I see some neat opportunities in MachineKit's work of FPGA's with hard ARM processors. Porting Mesa hm2 to SOCs is brilliant, you can run the whole RT layer on ARM cores that only do that. So as a side project I picked up a DE10 nano, problem there is there's very little I/O hardware options. That's OK I can't program but I can do a PCB, so I whipped up a daughtercard for it. after a couple of revs and circuits that work as expected I'll have something to mess with. Now this board is suited for my machine, but all of the circuits and a more generic maybe cheaper PCB deign, I'll open source. And I don't have a problem with that because it's a component of what I'm doing, not the secret sauce. Those MachineKit guys helped me out alot with all my idiot firmware questions so maybe somebody would use that board and I would be more than glad to open source that. That said I'd love to see LinuxCNC get up on some of these FPGA SOC things.

I'm big on open source, 90% of all of my PC's and everything I use is something open source. The thing that gets me is when the open source community thinks everybody should open source everything, I just don't agree with that. That's the "free software" movement, not really the open source idea.

Some version of this will OS