Check the playlist in the video description, and there's several more already published. That'll probably be all for the next while, though. The machine is in a good place right now, and I won't be doing any overhauls or getting new machinery until I manage to move. Stupid life priorities, getting in the way of shop projects.

That one's a bit beyond my shop right now, since the plasma is just a plasma. I'll keep making more videos as I get around to doing/learning more, but milling isn't going to happen any time soon. These guys might have some videos already, or would likely be able to provide some pointers: kzfaq.info - wrote a good chunk of FreeCAD's Path workbench, runs a mill conversion kzfaq.info/love/y5Dnc0yhIVGIDhsLnDgxGg - dude has one of the smaller Tormach machines and he's got some videos on working with the LinuxCNC bits under the hood kzfaq.info - guy is setting up some old, monstrous size mill with LinuxCNC/Mesa hardware The rest of the HAL videos here will probably still prove useful though - particularly the ohmic probing one, if you want to automatically measure Z offsets every time you chuck a mill in a collet.

I don't cover anything other than basic kinematics in this series, but the HAL concepts are all the same. If you wanna mail me a FANUC arm, then sure, I'll take a crack at that. Hahahah. I don't exactly have $50k to burn in order to cover niche use cases.

@@swolebro I bought the arm from an University Surplus Auction and only setting it up for the fun of it and have no use for it. So maybe I will but you will need to pick it up in Cal. The Robot is about 350 pounds and has 1/2" plate steel base and 1250mm x axis. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jeCUrbmF2Ku2k4k.html Or if you want, I just purchased an old Del 755, installed Linuxcnc and I can give you control of the system plus I can set up a network video camera that you can control and you can make the video over the internet. Right now there is nothing on how to set one up. Not for linux, marlin or mach3. So anyone wanting something different would watch that video. and I am sure it would have lots of views.

​@@phearl3ss1 Ok, so I took a look at your video showing off the SCARA ad that's actually pretty cool. The LinuxCNC docs definitely don't cover the use of scara apart from mentioning that "scarakins" exists as an alternative to the standard "trivkins" (trivial kinematics engine). Luckily, they do at least provide two example configurations. github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master/configs/sim/axis/vismach/scara github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master/configs/sim/gmoccapy/non_trivial_kinematics/scara Comparing the INI and HAL file in there to the basic-bitch configs you get from running the Stepconf Wizard (as in my earlier video) or the HAL files I build through this video series, might help you figure it out. Though right off the cuff, it doesn't appear they're setting any values for the lengths of the arm segments, which according to the HAL module code itself, should be some pins labeled D1 through D6. So I dunno. github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/src/emc/kinematics/scarakins.c I'd say once you read over the example configs and bumble through it a little bit, post on the forums and ask for some help connecting the dots. I certainly think it's interesting, but I'm not going to promise any of my time towards it, since I've got enough to do already. A couple more videos to knock out, then I really need to focus my energy on getting some house repairs done and moving the fuck out of this goddamn commie shithole that I'm living in. Got real-life priorities to handle. If you want, you can drop an issue on this GitHub project here so I don't forget entirely, but you're looking at months and months before I can have any free cycles to possibly spend looking at it. github.com/swolebro/swolebro-youtube

That's probably a question for the LinuxCNC.org forums. I'm just a homegamer - no experience with the industrial stuff.

@@swolebro You are absolutely right! Thanks for reminding me about the existence of the forum. Just about to get started with linuxcnc for a lab project.

Some of the commands don't come by default, but are available if you know where to look. (Which is usually a Google thing; "tree" specifically comes in the "moreutils" package.) I talk about the other tools I like in video 1b, and have the quick write-up of how/what to install here: github.com/swolebro/swolebro-youtube/blob/master/linuxcnc/misc/installing-software.rst Finding out a tool even exists... that just takes time. Same thing as when you've been drilling and tapping holes all your life, then one day, someone hows you those combination drill-taps, and your mind is blown.

Have you actually installed the system or are you only running it off a live USB? If you're running off the USB, click the wizard on the desktop and go through the install process. Not sure why your VGA is acting whack, and that's not a problem I can help with either.

USB stick for what, just general storage? My first guess would be to check what filesystem its formatted for. Once I get back to shooting videos, I plan on doing one about putting LCNC on a modern Linux Mint install. Should let you have more up to date software/drivers on it.

That tool doesn't come by default on every distro. Usually it's in a package called "tree" or possibly "moreutils" which you'd install using apt-get. I'm a bit hazy on the specifics by memory since it's been a while, but video #1b in this series (Linux basics) probably covers that for ya.

Usually the desktop shortcuts are made when you walk through the Stepconf Wizard. If you right click and look through the properties on it, there should be a field for a shell command that'll have something like "linuxcnc /path/to/your/config.ini". Check and make sure that's set up correctly.

​@@swolebro Unfortunately, no luck. The desktop icon created looks like a shell script when I open it with the text editor and it has the proper ini file with the right path. Double clicking on it just doesn't do anything. Seems like maybe a permissions issue.

@@davidjupin8797 Could either be that it somehow got the executable bit unset. Check with `ls -la` and see what the permissions are, and `chmod +x` if that's it. Might also be something with mime or XDG settings, but then we're getting into stuff that cant really be debugged via KZfaq comments, particularly when I don't have a Debian/LinuxCNC machine of my own to look at right now.

Install the `moreutils` package: github.com/swolebro/swolebro-youtube/blob/master/linuxcnc/misc/installing-software.rst