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  • April 23, 2013 at 2:06 pm in reply to: TinyG for Android #4051
    mcgyvr
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    wow.. cool… excellent work by the way.. (noticed I didn’t say that in my first post)  “Tablets” are the wave of the future..Everything is on them now.. Labview/sesnor networks/machine status,etc.. its all moving to a portable tablet type device so cnc control going that way is right on track IMO.. You sir.. are ahead of the game even..  I just showed the app to our Haas CNC machinist and he would LOVE to be able to sit down and program like that versus the giant clunky Haas programming console.

     

    There is a “home” button on the app.. Does that not work now? Or is that just to go to what it thinks is 0,0 and not perform an actual homing process.

    We all use tablets here to get drawings/work instructions,etc.. so the ability to just use the same tablets and walk over to this machine and “drive” it from the same tablet would be the direction I want to go versus something else..

    We have about 20 x Asus Transformer 101 tablets that we all use. They do not have usb ports but I have an accessory that allows you to have a USB 2.0 port where the asus specific connector goes.. (this is what I have.. http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-External-Adapter-Transformer-Series-Tablets/dp/B005PAINXQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366739320&sr=8-1&keywords=epad+usb+extension#productDescription )

    We originally bought it to allow external webcams to work with the tablets..(and it does perfectly).

    So I suspect I can simply use that to connect to the TinyG board..

    I believe homing is a must for me though.. I believe the operators will need to turn the machine on then perform a homing procedure somehow to get started.. I do not want to attach this to a regular computer at all.. My first thought was to use “gecko” drivers and run it all from an arduino/chipkit board but then I saw TinyG and your app and obviously am now headed in this direction.

    I’m far from a programmer so I can’t help there (a little php/asp/jquery/arduino stuff here and there but thats it..enough to be dangerous) .. but I plan to have hardware (tinyg/linear guides/steppers,etc..)  in the next week or so and can do any physical testing needed once it all arrives..

     

    So yes.. I really want to continue in the tablet direction and would be willing to help/offer suggestions,etc.. on whatever I can.

    April 23, 2013 at 12:48 pm in reply to: TinyG for Android #4048
    mcgyvr
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    Matt, (or others who know already)

    Just wondering if this Android app will work for my application.. Not sure where Matt stopped or if he is even currently still developing it but I just now saw the video and thought it would be perfect for my machine. My machine is a cnc controlled staking machine where you place a circuit board on the cnc controlled xy table, place a few standoffs into specific holes in the circuit board and then hit go.. The machine will move the circuit board so the first standoff is under a pneumatic cylinder and then the cylinder is triggered and will “flare” the standoff securing it to the circuit board.. Then the machine moves to the next xy position and repeats the process again and again till done..

    But my questions so far are…

    #1-Do you need to have an arduino ADK board for this app to work? Or is just the TinyG and a tablet all that is needed.. I was a little confused about what hardware was required or if the Arduino board was for “other features” or something.  I just want the ability to walk up to the machine, plug in the tablet to the tinyg board, load a gcode file and hit run.. (then run again..then again and again and again). So can the app talk directly to the tinyG board or is an intermediate arduino adk board needed and for what?

    If I need an android adk board then fine but wasn’t sure what it was needed for if at all.

    #2- Does the current app thats up on the app store have this basic functionality working already? Just load a gcode file that is saved on the tablet and be able to run it?

    This is for a “professional” in-house project that I will not have hours and hours to rewrite/fix code,etc.. I basically need a plug and play solution (a little tinkering is fine) but in general I won’t have the luxury of spending days fiddling with stuff/hoping you release an update,etc…

    I did download the app and it looks like its “in working order” but wasn’t sure if most of that is just “pretty button placeholders” waiting for it to be finished. Like I said I ONLY need homing, and the ability to load gcode and hit run.

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