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Thanks for the images. I'm encouraged to see some have the low data rate type A interface, so it appears the data requirements to the MESA card are not super demanding. USB data throughput has really evolved from the original 1.0 (12Mb/s) to 3.3 (20Gb/s) or 1600x faster. From what I have read 95% of the cheap so called "fast" 3.2 cables don't even have the conductors for the fast laneways so the port reverts back to the lower original slow laneway and the non technical people wonder why the device doesn't seems all that much faster?

I found an original IBM Thinkpad "OnePort" docking station on eBay for $10. In addition to the Ethernet port it has 2x USB 3.0 ports (5Gb/s) so the "OnePort" interface must be pretty capable, that "OnePort" docking station interface was replaced with a USB 3.x port the following year.

I'm still at the beginning of my LCNC experience, it means that any servo drive will be auto configured? If you want to make some test I can send you one, where are you located?

Thank you Collins.

Attached video shows the 3 interpreters tools moving around.

There is no motion component or whatever. The tool is just jumping to the consumed gcode position.

One of the problem's is when adding gcode segments to a infinite program, it has to check for duplicates,
and there must be a limit to the gcode preview. Otherwise we get a buffer overflow.

This run's quite stable, fixed some runtime bug's.

Was looking for info about raspberry, do you suggest to make a new buil on pi 4 because it's more stable? Or it's worth go with the 5?

you can use this Spartan6 module, but have to setup/modify 'riocore/boards/Spartan6/board.json' and change package and type for your needs.

programming will not work over w5500 you need to write the bitfile into the flash.

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@all
WINDOWS-WARNING:
rio was not intended to run on windows, at the moment i can't give windows/mac support for it.
I just made the system a bit more platform independent.

i normally don't use windows at all, but i think if you customise the generated makefiles a bit, you could generate the bitfiles there too, but very experimental .

Another question for Meister:

FPGA Module 2.00: Spartan 6 FPGA Board.

I would like to use that FPGA board. It has SPI / JTAG connectors for programming EEPROMs. Is it suitable?

I assume that the W5500 uses another SPI module inside the FPGA after programming for the data communicaktion with LinuxCNC. Therefore, I think it the configuaration EEPROMS cannot be flashed via the W5500. Is it correct?

Does the RIO System write the FPGA everytime when getting online or is the data permanently flashed on the EEPROMs?
 

i think you are on the wrong branch:

git checkout dev


BTW: very experimental, only for the gui and to generate the config-files,
i think, building bitfiles will not work yet on windows


 

Hello community,
I have another problem to solve, namely my feed potentiometer only works at mm/min.
It has no function at mm/rev. The potentiometer for rapid traverse always works.
Is there no other way or can it be influenced?
If you have to run in a program, a potentiometer like this is very helpful

Thanks and best regards
Olli

Hi Meister,

Unfortunately, I cannot make it run under Windows.

I have changed:

file_path = r".\riocore\__init__.py"
if os.path.isfile(file_path):
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("."))

When running rio_setup, the first problem, I cannot import halpins from riocore.
Directory is OK and the __init__.py file is there.

Perhaps you can help me out. Thanks a lot!