Barnworks shop update

  This site has a lot of very knowledgeable people on it. You might however have an easier time contacting MESA Electronics directly
they may have a few Idea's for you .

There is a lot of space in the old control bit, so I am planning a more integrated solution here and keeping the lower button thing.

in the left side will be an Touch monitor (PC includes If it's quick enough for linuxcnc, I've already got one here but never bothered to test it)

right to the monitor would a custom key panel handy:

​X; Y; Z; A; M; G; S; F; I; J; P; Q​; R; L; 0; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; ,; Enter; Tab; +; -;

But I am not sure if there is something like that out there. Has anyone a good sugestion?

for Jogging I can rest the old handheld device:

But I think a wireless more modern one like I use in my other mill might be more useful.

thanks Patrick

So I ordered the cards today and with two 4x4 kepads I might have found a solution for additional buttons in addition to the existing and the touch screen.

Hi there,
I am currently working on a retrofit for a morbidelliU13 machine, also using the mesa 7i97 card. Since we need more I/O, I am thinking of using the 7iA0 daughter card. I am wondering if you could share some experience with your setup. Was it easy to install? Is it supported by linuxcnc 2.8? Any tips and tricks?
Kind regards, Felix

no real upstes to the shop for a long time. The machines have their own threads and I am currently moving house.
Starting a new job over a year ago lead to buying a new house with a new shop. So while waiting for the permission to remodel the house, I started on the workshop with a lot of pressure washing and cleaning the floor and filling the old crap way with concrete and seal it





then installing a staircase to rech the 2nd level of the former stables to rech the future workshop of my wife.



next step is to put in new windows and maybe some insulating before I am ready to move the heavy machines.

still figuring out my shop setup, but I have a rough Idea now:



sorry for it being in German, and Wully is the Fehlmann Picomax 100  mill, Ditte the Gildemeister lathe, Jülia is my pickup
space an comfort wise this will be a step up from my current workshop and miles away from my first one in my apartment bedroom 

looks like you will have quite the shop when you're done.