BritishIdeas » motors http://www.britishideas.com Interesting Tech Projects Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Testing EMC2/LinuxCNC on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy http://www.britishideas.com/2007/11/03/testing-emc2linuxcnc-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy/ http://www.britishideas.com/2007/11/03/testing-emc2linuxcnc-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:42:41 +0000 Andy http://www.britishideas.com/2007/11/03/testing-emc2linuxcnc-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy/ I just completed the first test of running EMC2/LinuxCNC on Ubuntu with the HobbyCNC board. I connected a motor to the X-axis and started EMC2 with the “Axis” interface. I then told it to execute the default G-code file it loads with. Lo and behold the motor started spinning! I then moved the motor to the Y and Z axis and repeated. Seems to work well.

I didn’t notice any stalling so the problems I experienced with Windows XP and Mach3 must be due to Windows XP…

Here is a video:

Details on how to install EMC2 from source along with RTAI will follow when I have them ready. Also I will post the configuration files for the HobbyCNC board a bit further on in the project when I have more confidence that they are correct.

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