EMC2 on BBB?

[Drew Fustini]

I'm about to start working on getting the CNC sofware EMC2 (http://www.linuxcnc.org/) to run on the BBB.   Is anyone else working on this, too?

Thanks!

Drew

http://twitter.com/pdp7

[David Anders]

Drew,

no not yet, it is on my "todo list" with my copious amount of free time.....

i purchased one of the generic cnc units off ebay to test it with....

Dave

[Drew Fustini]

Cool, we were brainstorming at my hackerpace in Chicago (http://pumpingstationone.org/) last night and we are going to try to get EMC2 working as a group project.  We have members that built a Pick and Place gantry and would like to control it with the BBB directly (they had previously been using TinyG connected to a Pi).  We were also looking at what HipsterCircuits has done for stepper control with the PRU.

Anyways, just wanted to ping the Beagle community to see if anyone else was similarly interested.

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[David Anders]

Drew,

one of the TI sponsored cape contest winners will have his project available through boardzoo.com soon:

http://hipstercircuits.com/replicape-revision-a2-ready-for-review/

this would provide an excellent control system for a pick-n-place....

Dave

[mvca...@gmail.com]

FYI - The LinixCNC gang is already a long ways down that road.
You can search the developer mail list archives to see what's been going on:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.devel

Dave

[Eric Keller]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, <mvca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI - The LinixCNC gang is already a long ways down that road.
> You can search the developer mail list archives to see what's been going on:
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.devel
>
> Dave

quite a bit of discussion on the linuxcnc users list as well
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

There is work to be done on the real time kernel at this point.
Eric

[eskimobob]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:54:09 UTC+1, Drew Fustini wrote:

I'm about to start working on getting the CNC sofware EMC2 (http://www.linuxcnc.org/) to run on the BBB.   Is anyone else working on this, too?

I'm interested in this Drew and have been following the efforts to port to the Pi.  I currently use EMC2 on a desktop to control my milling machine but would love to get it working on the BBB.  Hope to contribute too :-)