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Hakan wrote:

Yes, trixie uses python3.13. I guess it would be fine in bookworm with 3.11.
It turned out the tool_db issue was just a setting in xyz.ini. The tool program is in /usr/bin.

I have played around a bit and yes it looks very very nice.
The material handling looks awesome.
So I'll turn it into a real machine, for my plasma cutter.

Yes, I helped Joco get this working on real hardware when he did the first development. and it is very good. Built like a touch screen gui should be! 

There is a halui pin halui.mode.manual  that can do this and halui.mode.teleop will enable jogging. I have used these with pendants. 

Hi All, I want to tackle a project that I started about 6 years ago and never got round to. 
Mi Avon Mill with Anilam GXM contro        l served me well until one day it did'nt. First the one servo driver failed. The machine uses Baldor (i think) DC servo motors with tacho and encoder feedback. I replaced the drive and the machine was running OK. At some point I re-soldered some of the Anilam control cards, as the machine was acting unpredictably and I suspected dry joints. I decided it was no longer useable when the Z-axis had a runaway and crashed a tool into my manual tool setter. (coming to think of it, this could also have been an encoder problem)
I bought a Mesa 5i25 Superport and a Mesa 7i77D card for it, but that is where I got stuck. 
I now started up an old Dell Core 2 Duo machine with 4GB ram and a 240GB SSD for the retrofit, and installed LinuxCNC 2.9.4
My plan is to first get the Dell and Mesa cards running on the bench, Maybe toggle a output and read a handwheel or switch. Then do the transplant and get things working from there. If possible, I want to use the existing electrics cabinet and just connect to the two ribbon cables connecting the Anilam with the electrical cabinet. I will start with the existing drives, and upgrade to AC drives and motors when budget allows.
Comments and suggestions welcome

Hi DarkPhoinix,

Could you please describe the steps you have used to successfully flash remora as i'm having issues connecting to target using j-link.

Many thanks
archie

Pics or it didn't happen

I am working on modification of Probe Screen by Serguei Glavatski (c) 2015
This modification moved the icons from one window to containers with switchable vertical tabs.





 







I have a control panel made on the machine.
Unfortunately, I have a display with a low resolution.
So I have to save space on the screen. That's why I used switchable vertical tabs.

At the moment, the Gmoccapy screen is huge, because there is a bug:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/3611

What do you think about GTK little probe?

I'm using an old version for modification, if you're interested in the current version, check here:
- vers.ge/en/blog/useful-articles/probe-screen-v28
- github.com/verser-git/probe_screen_v2.9 

Did you have a video or a link you meant to post? What are we talking about?

And I know we have very differing opinions on the RPi5.


Maybe it's time for an old skool Flame War

Cheapest I could find on AliExpress was 180 AUD still way above what I've paid for a RPi5 locally, even if I add the RPi power supply.
The RPi is brand new and unused.
And to tell the truth the RPi5 works really really well.

But yeah the BC-250 does look interesting.

Songs like you still have a tool length offset active while probing

Yes I have checked & that is the case. I should have realised.

Thanks.

PS is there a way that when the macro ends it tells LinuxCNC to go back into man mode?
...... Actually now I think about it is it possible to have a usb button that sets it back to man mode.

Alex
 

NOT my video!!!
Bumped into this right now, it seems perfect for LinuxCNC as it is the industrial version of the PS5 APU with 16GB of GDDR memory (8GB CPU/8GB GPU by default). Notice he is using the wrong fans for it, the cooler is made for radial fans, not axial.
Playing CyberPunk 2077 while making chips and costing 96$ !!! Perfection...granted the latency is usable.
If anyone is wiling to send one my way for testing, let me know, i have no way of ordering it for now.
The thing is, those were used for mining crypto, so should be made in huge numbers by Asrock and be readily available, and for the price and performance puts RPI5 in a coma and life support from the get-go.

Hi,

I am using my ATC spindle with a tool setter. Z0 is at the top of the machine.

The Spindle Nose is probed at -202mm (so, entered as 202mm in the GUI).

When probing the tool (measured with a caliper to be around 57mm), it triggers at around -145mm. However, the GUI reports it as 120mm Long. Is there something I can tweak?

Screenshots?

Upgraded to deb12 and machine set up great. However when I load a work file I get a weird pattern.  The file is one that I've used many times.