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25 Years of machinery service, retrofits and custom machinery means nothing to guys wearing suits that have a "don't you know who I am? I can do what I want" attitude. It's a long story but $4.7M in contracts canceled by a prick. If I could afford a lawyer we would be in court over it. 

Hey, yeah its been an insane learning curve but im happy to say i figured it out, i have the robot arm pretty much working at the moment, got 6 tmc 5160 drivers connected to the PI5 and am using an arduino for SPI to configure the drivers (i wouldnt have enough pins for toolheads if i used the Pi's SPI interface). Right now all i need to figure out is the DH parameters of the arm itself and some scaling stuff but that shouldnt be too difficult, i had another question though, is it a good idea atall to run 6 stepper motors with step/dir controls using the pi5? im not sure if its powerful enough to do it consistently, i get movement on all the motors with no problem i just dont know how reliable thats gonna be in the long run, maybe running the tmc5160's in SPI mode would be easier if i were to let them do their own stepgen, that would be a whole other learning process too although it might be better

That works, thanks!!

If anyone needs, these are my custom parallel port tester hal files for IN, and X modes.



 

tommylight wrote:

Why Wine?
 

Configuration software for Kollmorgen servo drivers are only for win7 and I do not want to use more PCs or virtual stuff on my lcnc ...

Tommy what any news with the servo stuff from your workshop? do you have any new pieces?

It might be helpful to know how you are calling it?