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Hello dberegovoy,

i retrofitted a Maho MH400E and therefore worked with various Beckhoff encoder inputs. Plug and play support is there for pretty much most of their encoder terminals. I tested the EL5021, EL5101, EP5101 and EL5002 terminals. All of them work flawlessly and are available for cheap on ebay, starting at ~50€/piece. If you want to go down the rabbithole of creating yoir own EtherCAT slave, you can certainly do that, but it willl take quite some time and you don't have any support or industrial quality whatsoever.

A list of all supported EtherCAT slaves can be found here:
github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat/linuxcnc-et...mentation/DEVICES.md
Claude also built me drivers for all of my not yet supported terminals:
github.com/PedPEx/linuxcnc-ethercat

Keep us posted with your lathe details

Hola!. Mi viejita cpu con Linuxcnc 32 bits, trabaja en la prueba de Latencia, unos 33 grados celsius, muy poco. Me gustaría poder configurarla mejor, para sacar mejores resultados. Tiene grasa disipadora nueva, bateria nueva, ssd, y sus 2 módulos de 512 megas ddr de ram, llegando a sus 1024 megas de ram, y la eleg{i por tener su puerto parelelo en su mother. Gracias!...

Ya, es ist möglich fur lokale KI betrieben auf einen PC. Aber ich habe kein experience KI-Modelle trainien. Ich vernemm dasz nimt viel mehr Rechenleistung.

I build PC's for running local LLM's, i am using one now (PC, not LLM).
For normal troubleshooting Gemini is the best so far, not always helpful and not always right.
For programming in Python or C/C++ or else, Claude by far is the best.
They are all already trained on everything publicly available on the internet.
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AI can help in some normal low level troubleshooting and configuration for sure, it can not help with complicated machine stuff, for that it would need to have all the possible machine/electronics/controller/pneumatics/hydraulics/etc etc combinations, and that is never happening.
You can try running some LLM's on your PC, anything about 3-4 year old and with access to 6GB or more of VRAM will work, slowly, but will work fine. Most Ryzen CPU/GPU combos with shared memory work quite nicely with models up to 7B parameters.
Download LM Studio, get some small models, play with it, they can do a lot of stuff pretty damn good, but they can also fail miserably on other stuff.

www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-copy-clone-hard-disk/

Hallo miteinander,

haben wir hier jemanden, der sich mit KI auskennt oder vielleicht sogar schon eigene KI-Modelle trainiert hat?

Ich habe mir die Frage gestellt, ob man nicht mithilfe der LinuxCNC-Dokumentation, vorhandener Konfigurationen und Beispiele eine eigene, lokal laufende KI aufbauen könnte.

Die Idee wäre, eine KI zu haben, die speziell auf LinuxCNC ausgerichtet ist und beispielsweise bei Fragen, Problemen, der Konfiguration sowie bei der Erstellung und Fehlersuche in HAL- und INI-Dateien unterstützt.

Interessant wäre auch, wenn solche Modelle durch Erfahrungen und Lösungen der Nutzer immer weiter verbessert werden könnten. Die verbesserten Modelle könnte man anschließend untereinander austauschen, sodass die gesamte Gemeinschaft davon profitiert.

Das Ganze sollte möglichst vollständig lokal und ohne Internetverbindung funktionieren.

Leider kenne ich mich mit dem Trainieren eigener KI-Modelle bisher nicht wirklich aus und habe auch noch kein eigenes Modell eingerichtet.

Deshalb einfach mal die Frage in die Runde:

Wäre so etwas technisch und mit vertretbarem Aufwand umsetzbar? Hat vielleicht schon jemand Erfahrungen damit gesammelt?

Gruß
Mücke

I am installing a M.2 SSD. Can I copy my current boot image from the SD card to my SSD?
I am running this on Raspberry PI5

thanks for your help 

Yes, Stable does not necessarily mean bug free. But it also does not mean that there are not bug fixes when bugs are found. This isn't Debian. In the case of Linuxcnc, it only means that it is no longer getting new features and major changes, and it will be much more bug free than the development branch. The Master development branch in Linuxcnc is more analogous to Sid in Debian. Linuxcnc does not have a Testing stabilizing branch like Debian.

It didn't on the last machine I set up about 6 months ago. (But that does not mean that it didn't change since then.) It would be nice if it did do that.

Tuxcnc sums sit up "working model", "zero practical value". If the goal is making things then a drill press hand tools and a jig saw, might be the better options. Do not make the mistake thinking a CNC machine is "the tool" for making stuff.

Having seen a TTC-40h in person I would stay away from this "brand"

Considering what your goals are is the first priority. "I do not need it to be fast" "I only want to do hobby work" that is what I hear all the time. Most probably the "more hobby" it is, the more babysitting a machine needs.
Hobby machines lack reliability and most of the time for one off parts I have to supervise the process full time. G-code from any cam system needs to be veryfied and or observed. (never trust the CAM).

Thinking about just spending more than 100$ on a few small endmills and one M6 tap last weekend. It becomes almost ridiculous how many discussion I see about making a controller electronics costs 50$ less than another option.
If you use a machine a lot, other costs add up quickly. 
p.s. the machine price is the least concern.

I thought the spindle selected was remembered until another spindle was chosen so you don't need to set the spindle with every M3 command

I understood the "Show Your Stuff" section as a place where members could share their own projects and technical work, so I thought it would be appropriate to share mine there.

I'm still exploring LinuxCNC and learning from the community. I may not have much to contribute to LinuxCNC itself at this stage, but I wanted to share what I've been working on and exchange ideas with others.

There was no intention to misuse the forum or disregard its purpose. If my post is not appropriate for this section, I understand.

While LinuxCNC is running, open a terminal and type
sensors
Check the CPU temperature, if it is over 60 degree C, check the fan and remove the CPU cooler, clean and repaste the CPU, test again.
Also visually check the motherboard capacitors for bulging and/or leaks, if any are bulging replace the PC.
Same as above for power supply, if capacitors are bulging replace the PS.
In BIOS, disable hyperthreading (this is a must), disable turbo, speedstep, PCI-E aggressive power management, modem, sound, TPM, secure boot, etc, anything regarding power saving.

"Stable" does not mean that the program is really stable and bugs-free.
It just means that it's old and there's something missing.
For example, Debian is released every three years and Ubuntu every six months. People prefer Ubuntu because they probably don't know it's unstable and should use Debian...
Coming back to LinuxCNC, I use version 2.10 because I don't want to wait a few years for functionality that I can have today.
And you must always be careful, even if something is called stable.

Muchisimas Gracias, de todas maneras, comparto lo que tengo Placa Intel D865DKD, procesador Intel Celeron 2.53Hz )1 cpu lógico), 998MB RAM, kernel 3.4.9-rtai-686.pae. Test de latencia: Max Jitter servo 1ms us a 405us, con wifi apagado y BIOS con APM desactivado. ¿Con período de base de 100000 ( 100 us), en Stepconf, se queja de latencia?. Que hardware maneja usted?, Aún me gustaría saber lo de JT, quien me confirmó, que usaba ese Ubuntu hacías años, sin problemas. Muchas Gracias por haberme respondido y su paciencia. Me encantaría que ésta viejita de cpu, me anduviera bien....