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Before that I had already assembled CNC machines and 3D printers. But it was much easier with them. There was a board already prepared for a milling machine or 3D printer. I edited the Marlin firmware file and uploaded it. That is, I had work with CNC. I have never dealt with FPGAs. Installing LinuxCNC on real hardware is not a problem. Buying a ColorLight board is also not a problem. I have been working with a soldering iron all my life))) But I have never worked with Linux))) That's why it's a dark forest for me. I read on GitHub how to flash a board and make inputs/outputs by cutting tracks and a resistor, I don't remember exactly))) First, as I understand it, you need real hardware, the ColorLight board itself - flashed. And then its configuration. But I didn't find any information about setting up the board.

Could mapping of the rack be possible as some do for ballscrews\leadscrews ?

Unfortunately I’m not really up on the implementation.

I wouldn’t be of the opinion USB = bad. I think it can be let down at the physical layer by less than great cables.
Whilst not the greatest fan of Arduino, it does allow for projects like yours and sharing is quite easy. Developers such as yourself should be thanked, as there is a lot of behind the scenes frustrations, hopefully you didn’t pull too much hair out. Keep up the great work.

Just another thought, Ethernet would add a bit of extra cost, and could mean a 2nd Ethernet card for the pc and such. And complexity for some setting it up. USB\Serial keeps it easy.

All the best from Down Under
Rob

Grotius,
A big thank you for working on this hard problem.
My offer for sending you EtherCAT servo and stepper drives still stands. Let me know. I have 400W and 750W 3000rpm chinese servos and 4.5A chinese steppers with EtherCAT available which I can send out to you.

The repository downloaded and compiled ok using the "installer" script.
S curve tpmod was also running properly.
But it looked like it was falling back to a single block lookahead.
Is lookahead implemented in this new planner? If yes, how can I enable it? What are the settings that I can play with?
I tried with G64 Pxx Qyy but that did not seem to have too much effect.

I tried to work with the tpmod hal params without much change to the output. I was trying the G3 to G3 blends in the standard LINUXCNC startup gcode.

Once again a big thank you for working on this problem.
-automata

This one looks good too:
www.aliexpress.com/item/32861267422.html

I think 6.5A peak is correct.

4.6 times the sqare root of 2 is a tiny bit over 6.5.

Which of these is the best?

www.stepperonline.ca/y-series-digital-st...er-motor-dm556y.html

www.stepperonline.ca/y-series-digital-st...34-motor-dm860y.html

www.walmart.ca/en/ip/DM556-2-phase-Stepp...4V-50V-DC/6CZOWS35V8

www.aliexpress.com/item/33014449403.html


The motors are all 4.6A steppers

These drivers are only 4A RMS. Do I need 4.6A RMS?

I have two physical hosts to run iGH separately.
I want to implement the redundant function? Can it be achieved? What to do?

Cant do this anymore bye all wrote:

.... that's right ndiswrapper.

Oh how i hated that, to the point of buying Senao access points and using the internal PCMCIA cards as they used Atheros chipset that worked properly.

Hello my guys, I am very surprised of how much conversation I have missed, somehow I was not notified of new posts in this thread.
@cornholio and @blazini36 honestly between your "discussion" I was not able to understand what exactly you suggest.
I have been in several discussions in the direction "USB -> bad " where we explored other connection possibilitys, for example Ethernet TCP and UDP connections.

Personally I feel like USB offers a good ratio between ease of use and speed good enough.
However I do see the benefit of offering a faster Option for those that need it. But at the end we have to see that Arduino-connector offers a cheap alternative to Mesa Cards, but it will always have its limits and at some point the user should consider just using a Mesa card instead.
As I am not a very experienced Programmer I am always very happy for advice, so please continue to share your knowledge.

Currently I am reworking the Codebase to implement 2 basic but drastic changes.
1. The Configuration will change to a single YAML Config file, inspired by Klipper and ESPHome. This will allow to copy/ paste Feature specific configs more easily. Also a lot of Emails I get are related to little configuration mistakes. I hope this change will help people get it right more easily. 

2. The old Serial connection sends Pin states encoded in a string. The new version will send everything directly in a bitstream, so for example 8 Input Pins can be transferred in a single byte. The cost of that change is that the user looses the possibility to communicate with the Arduino manually for testing. I expect the communcation to speed up quite a bit from this change - pun intended.

Additionally I have collected a lot of feature requests to support more Hardware and offer more logic for existing features, which if i find the time i am willing to implement in the future.
Hopefully I will be notified again in the future so I can answer more quickly in this thread.

Cheers from Germany!
Alex

Dear linuxcnc users,

There is developped a new trajectory planner with help of several forum members over the past weeks.

- Credits : Joco, Lcevette, Turboss, Linuxcnc8, connor, Grotius, and more.

The new planner is called tpmod_scurve.so

This new planner can be installed alongside the original trajectory planner tpmod.so
by specifying the used planner in the config .ini file.

Existing linuxcnc (RIP) installations can be patched using a small script that replaces a few files.
There is no .deb package patch available.

This codebase uses miminal source code to achieve an S-curve motion profile. No heavy dependencies are required.
Note there are several HAL pins and parameters that must be set at runtime to tune a specific machine to its inertia limits.

Important: Alway's exersise caution using new software, especially on high-speed machining operations.

repository
readme
licence  
disclaimer

Automated installation example:

github.com/ozzyrob/Linuxcnc-FPGA/tree/main

Spartan 6 based project.
Supports Linuxcnc-RIO either with direct spi connection or with the UDP Bridge.

Based on a common Spartan 6 dev board available via aliexpress.
Easily assembled, mostly through hole components only SMD parts are a couple of chips.
Modified 7c81 firmware spi mode
EPP interface also can be implemented.
Have experimented with firmware that supports upto 60 i/o (compared to 57 with the 7c81) requires a dedicated driver, easy enough to implement based on the 7i90 driver for EPP interface.
Easily interfaces to your basic Parallel Port breakout board, up to 3.
using a Aliexpress RS-422 interface baords allows SSerial connection, tested with a 7i73 device.

If anyone in Australia is interested I have a few unpopulated pcbs available.

Read the whole, if you haven't, have a look through the github repository. Be prepared to get your soldering iron out. I guess you didn't come across the DIY 7c81 clones or other FPAG dev boards running Mesa firmware.

Linuxcnc wont work in a VM, you have to install on some actual hardware.

In all honesty think how you want to use your lathe, if you haven't had a lot of exposure of using a lathe I'd spend some time (12 months) learning how to use a lathe.

If you are a machinist, you know what you're doing.

我使用的是sv660n

Might be best to raise the issue on github, more devs there.