How funny, i was just in the middle of doing one!

@@TheFeralEngineer Awesome, cant wait to check out the new video keep them coming!

@@FreedomFactory3D had some issues getting this one to render. Hopefully it finishes soon

@@TheFeralEngineer You just got yourself another subscriber for this comment 👍

@@adriancollins if you check out the bare bones video, it's a general breakdown of the baby steps to get started 👌👌

Just keep at it, pause my videos and work on the stuff yourself as you go along. The challenge will be that the io pin names change all the time. But you'll get there. 👌👌👌👌 Yeah, I can't get down with any system that doesn't offer wear adjustment. To me, that's not a control, that's a tinker toy.

I've got a bit of a build log I've been doing that I'll start uploading soon

i interesting too lot mesa card and linuxcnc but have totally out off hobby user budget ,mesa card have super expensive and shipping my north europe country cost same than card, totally owerprice and super expensive buy, not possiple all hobby users.

Linuxcnc will do that, yes. There are kinematic files that are used for those types of robots. I personally have not done it, but I believe there are sample machine setups for it. The wizards are only for basic machines, you'd need to configure a lot of that yourself.

@@TheFeralEngineer Thanx, so it does mean digging into it a bit more... well, I can only hope that I can reuse sample machine setups. Have a little programming experience, but not the time to spend days or weeks in making this work ;)

That's the whole reason I started making videos. The forums and groups were impossible to get information from because they were filled with a bunch of people who knew how to do things, explaining it to people who also knew how to do things. My philosophy is to go into it assuming the person watching is a green banana that still needs to ripen. I make some concessions because I don't want to over explain, but I try to keep it simple for those that don't already know.

@@TheFeralEngineer and I appreciate whole heartedly.

I do not believe the answer to that has any simple explanation, honestly. There's a lot going on under the hood to make a CNC control work.

That's the problem with open source, especially the lcnc community... There are so many ideas but too many personalities. I've asked a few times if this is a software that they want to take to the mainstream or just a developer's playground. The other thing is that there are so many hardware options available, that it's almost daunting to think of the amount of plug and play configurations there would need to be... Look at Marlin on a 3D printer... There are hundreds of board configs for that

@@TheFeralEngineer sure, one cannot cover everything. But if there will be setups for the most common machines the Linux CNC will be used by way more people. The more people will use it the more people who can contribute will be found. They took same approach with making the whole distro instead of only program. That approach needs to be taken further,

Depends on the loop. If the motors are closed to the drives, you can use any step and direction board as long as the drive takes step and direction. If you're running something like h bridges and want full encoder feedback into the control, you'll need a 7i77 or 7i97 to drive them.

@@TheFeralEngineer is there any advice you can give on the subject of which one to go with? The motors I have are just plain steppers and I have run into the case where the quarter horsepower motor for the End Mill bogs down and I miss steps and causes a real issue

You can use hybrid steppers from leadshine, higher torque open loop motors or go with closed loop AC servo solutions like DMM or Delta. There's many ways to skin this cat

640 or 540 gecko?

People are afraid of what they don't know. Once you do something a few times, it's like "ooohhh! Now I get it!"

@@TheFeralEngineer That's very correct, sir! (I can't pass after the "done" button! It is not responding to mouse click! I can close the procedure, the file will appear on the desktop, but if I open it, it will show an error. I am thinking, something could be with electronics, or I missed some setting)

what hard you fear motor drivers, select motors driver board what big you have stepper motors, if motors need max use 4-6 ampere select etc, DM 556 driver board, thats can select dip switch max ampere to motors max use, then need connect controller all axis step wire to driver, dir wire to driver, enable wire to driver and connect motors and motor power wires all ok and ready to run. very simple. computer speak whit controller, controller speak whit drivers and drivers run motors, simple

Have you watched any of my other videos? I have quite a few for beginners

That's anything, though.

@@TheFeralEngineer of course, but it sure does feel like Linux and its community struggles. I LOVE the idea, but I'm becoming frustrated by the required hardware. PI's are not available so I got an old PC with serial port which SHOULD have fitted the bill perfectly. It's still got average (but MUCH better than before) latency after many hours of reading and figuring out how to make changes within Linux. Then I see posts from others with similar issues and the replies from experts saying "you have to remember you have a 12 year old cpu, so maybe you should upgrade"...... So which is it.. Modern cpu with tons of cores or old cpu with just one or two? There is absolutely no sure-fire method to get good latency with a PC, OLD OR NEW. Nobody has a recipe that WORKS 100% of the time. And then there is a huge amount of very confusing information about the various paths you could take when designing your linuxcnc hardware and why each one works the way it does, and what the pros and cons are. (sorry, just feels like iv done everything possible to ensure success but it's still a struggle)

@@nathanchalecki4842 i don't use parallel port cards besides a gecko g540. I've found that the older Intel core units work very well. Dell vostro 220, Core 2, dell optiplex 3010, Core i5 work great.

Yeah, it works great if you already know what you're doing. If you don't the learning curve is so steep and finding the information you need is such a chore that it's not user friendly at all. Trying to set up a tool setter in qtdragon has been a nightmare for me... I've wasted hours

@@TheFeralEngineer i used gecko before my old cnc but have expensive, worst drivers, many lot better have today and lot cheapen. same not newer want use again expensive acorn,uccn,masso or other expensive worst controllers, too expensive repair if broken somethink.