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The 7i74 is a good start, bit doesn't do much by itself.
The 7i73 is a handy little board for control panels and pendants.

You could also look at the Mesa 50-pin cards. I am a fan of the 6i24
They use different daughter boards to the 25-pin cards (eg 7i44 v 7i74 for smart-serial) but they use the same smart-serial accessory boards.

Just be aware that there are two separate daughter-board ecosystems.

An ethernet-based FPGA card might make for easier PC swaps in the future. My mill recently got a 6i24 side-grade when I couldn't find a PC with a full-size PCI slot to suit the existing 5i23. (they still exist, but I had other constraints like 12V power and M2 slot)

Strange, does:

mesaflash --device ethernet --addr 10.10.10.10 --write 7i96_5abob_d.bit --reload

work?


 

yes I ran your exact command

Did you add the "--addr 10.10.10.10"
 

If you want a negative number for reverse operation, then just set the rev-dc pin to a negative number.

github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...s/carousel.comp#L366

mesa flash version 3.4.6

I tried adding --reload but i still get the same answer, I also tried using 7i96_2

What command line did you use?

Something like:

mesaflash --device 7i96 --addr 10.10.10.10 --write 7i96_5abob_d.bit --reload

should work

What version of mesaflash are you using?

Welcome to the wonderful world of LinuxCNC HAL

Maybe the lathe is not touched-off correctly for diameter?

Where was the tool tip when you started?

(for the radius macro it should be possible to make a very good guess of the starting position, but the macro as it stands doesn't try)

5 m/min is a pretty low surface speed (the macros run in CSS mode)

thanks for the answer, I tried flashing the firmware with mesa flash and all I get is "no 7I96 board found"

adress is 10.10.10.10,

running --device ethernet-- returns "ETH device 7I96 at ip=10.10.10.10"

any idea what that could come from?

You can just try loading the existing configuration files onto the Bookworm setup. It ought to just work (I spent a lot of effort on the automatic conversion scripts)

If it doesn't work you are no worse off (if you keep a backup of the LinuxCNC folder)

Rodw talked about it Here

Previous inconclusive thread:

forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/38108...i25-7i77-orion-pd200

Seems to suggest it is LinuxCNC, but the email address at 7:01 makes me wonder if it is GRBL.
The UI looks unfamiliar, except for the preview pane.

At that price I am tempted to get one to play with.