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  • March 9, 2015 at 5:16 pm in reply to: TinyG worked great, now its spotty #7518
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    At this point, I think it was just dust in a USB port, but I’m still a little nervous that it was something else. Time will tell.

    March 9, 2015 at 4:53 pm in reply to: TinyG worked great, now its spotty #7517
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    That bit about it only moving in the positive direction was my mistake. But it still seems to lose its connection on the Windows machine after a bit of jogging. Give me a few minutes to explore this a bit more fully.

    March 9, 2015 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Setting minimum Z on a CNC router #7515
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    Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll upgrade to 440.14 ASAP.

    March 2, 2015 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Setting minimum Z on a CNC router #7497
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    It looks like I’ll need homing switches to make this possible. Without homing, soft limits aren’t enforced.

    This is good as we probably would have made do without home and limit switches otherwise.

    But if there is some other way to do something like soft limits without home switches, I’m all ears.

    February 28, 2015 at 1:20 pm in reply to: TinyG compatible G-code senders #7491
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    Ya. I hear you on tgFX being abandoned. My hope is that it will work well enough for the time-being or that I can dial in Chilipeppr.

    Certainly, Chilipeppr is nice for a one-man CNC shop with a self-built machine hooked up to a decent PC. For a designer with a CNC router for rapid prototyping, it’s also really interesting. But requiring a PC with web access right next to a CNC machine is really painful in a production environment. It requires a degree of computer competance of the operator that isn’t as common as one would think. (Think about viruses, security updates, and a bored operator with access to the web.) A usable pendant or Android interface would go a long way to making this problem disappear.

    A dead simple interface, that would run on really low-end hardware (ie. RPi), with decent control of jogging and a big STOP button, is really all that is necessary.

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    December 5, 2014 at 2:08 pm in reply to: Successfully used external driver models? #7105
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    cmcgrath5035: Yup. I’ve studied that thread. Makes me feel a little safer.

    Zootalaws: What do you mean? The Leadshine MX3660 is just three drivers in one unit… Isn’t it?

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