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Riley
KeymasterVery cool stuff! Looking forward to more integration in the future!
ril3y
KeymasterAnother question I have is. Does this do this on ALL gcode files? Meaning stop at the same point in all of them? Or just this one file?
Riley
Keymastermvberg:
“I started out pulling the tgFx from GitHub, that’s what prompted my first post 🙂 Great work so far! I look forward to helping the development process along – just grabbed the AVRISP to upgrade to Fanny Pack.”
Very cool! So you said that the WHOLE gcode file is being sent at the start. This is 100% not correct (unless its a very very small file sub 256 chars). I think that XON is not turned on in TinyG / Coolterm. Make sure you have the latest version of coolterm also.
I think from here. You need to get up to date on firmware 338.05. Once we are on the same build we can go forward and see what we can do to troubleshoot this.
Riley
KeymasterThe old swing app is very badly outdated. This was a first attempt. In fact I killed all of the old “legacy” stuff when tinyG consisted of 2 followers (Alden and I!) today.
tgFX is what I want you guys to start using more and more. Its VERY MUCH still in heavy development. But this is what we are going with for use with TinyG. Currently we are testing and developing on Windows. However it WILL work eventually on LIN,WIN,OSX.
The instructions here are a very very quickly cobbled together work in progress:
http://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:tgFXI AM SURE there will be issues with the install instructions but I am hoping you guys update the wiki or msg me and I will add to them.
Again, this is coded for “Fanny Pack” anything else will not really be troubleshot. Not because I am a jerk 🙂 Just because TinyG’s JSON / Command interface has been in very much a HIGH state of flux.
Let me know if I can help guys.
Riley
KeymasterBlizard what serial terminal are you using?
Keymastergreyhound,
Perhaps you still can use this. Kinda.. I did a SocketMonitor class so that I could write and android app. Connect to tgFX via a socket and get “updates” (think hand held JOG / DRO) via wifi.
See that.
https://github.com/synthetos/tgFX/blob/master/src/tgfx/external/SocketMonitor.javaIts pretty incomplete (as is tgFX in general). But you could connect to tgFX via a socket and then do whatever you want. You get status updates too. I know this method requires a “server” so to speak. Just thinking out loud.
Riley
Keymastersaleha,
You might have better luck by posting on the grbl site. This forum is really for specific questions regarding the grblShield (or other Synthetos projects). Your question really is about how the grbl firmware handles M codes.
Riley
Keymasterjmnoeth: I have been working away trying to get the ‘tgFX’ up and going. I have ran into a bit of a problem however. I am trying to get “flow control” working. There is a bug somewhere in the threading that is creating a race condition I am pretty sure.
If you want to sync up on what I have so far toss me an email
rileyporter at gmail dot com
Riley
KeymasterWell its fairly obvious if you touch the stepper IC very very briefly. Better solution is to get a non contact thermal gun ($25 ish) and shoot it during operations. However, what I do it just touch it and see. It will be pretty darn hot. Hot enough to cause pain so be careful. If its not a thermal issue I would 2nd aldens suggestion to post on the grbl forums.
Also, if it is thermal shutdown there are a few things you need to ask yourself.
1. Do I need that much current (the current pot) to make my system go? (current pots will break if you over torque them careful!)
2. Are you using a 12v power supply? 24v will run cooler.
3. Do you have heat sinks? / Fan?We sell heat sink kits – https://www.synthetos.com/webstore/index.php/accessories/heat-sinks-kit.html.
Also, I am finishing up our case / cooler. Check it out here:
https://www.synthetos.com/blog/grblshield-case/Riley
KeymasterYah bud. Working on getting some motors / kits together. Also, working on other solutions to get grbl on a pre-loaded arduino. Keep ya updated bud.
KeymasterSaci,
Your screen shots are not working for me?
Also, I have been working on a xplatfom javafx 2 based gui. I choose fx as its the one stop shop for drawing, ui’s and 3d. That works across all os’es. Right now linux javafx2 support is coming soon. But it will be here soon. Either way what are you developing in? I will work on getting my gui on github soon. Perhaps we can both work on this together. Split up the work etc. I have been looking at how replicatorG is modeled and I think its a good starting place. This gui will work with grbl too BTW.
Riley
November 29, 2011 at 6:02 pm in reply to: Software problem. Can't get steppers to turn. Not getting response from arduino #1676KeymasterNorvegico,
Not sure what your problem was? But I am glad its working for you now 🙂
Keymastersocketcap,
Yes, I will try to setup a product in the store by the end of this weekend.
Riley
KeymasterSo a few things. Once you “install” grbl on an “arduino development board”, you no longer own a “Arduino” in the sense that you can just hookup to their IDE and click upload. You are replacing the arduino boot loader with the grbl code.
That being said the screen shot you posted is not much help. What programmer do you have? Do you have an avr external programmer?
In the links alden posted you will be lead to this page: http://dank.bengler.no/-/page/show/5471_gettinggrbl?ref=mst
This is GRBL not GRBLSHIELD. So we create the hardware that grbl talks to. That being said. I have never used the “arduino uploader” method before and cannot comment on that way. However you can try that route if you would like. I for one just got an avr programmer and use the avr studio 4 to program the hex file on the the arduino board.
Riley
KeymasterCan you give me you order number? Socketcap is kinda hard to tie to a name 🙂
To answer your questions. I am not sure why this happened. Can you try logging in again?
Also, could you explain this for me.. You purchased a grblShield last night. You have to have an account to purchase from the store. So you were logged in. Then you logged out came back later and tried to login? Is this where you are getting an error?
Riley
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