Upshot: The last installment of this prototyping/demo work, discussing the software side of things. Now on to building the machine.
Topic index:
00:00 - Intro & other resources
02:16 - Virtual machines (and how they don't work)
03:53 - Installation
05:35 - Stepconf Wizard for stepper motors
07:00 - Stepper drive timing
08:50 - Thread timing, latency, & the realtime kernel
13:00 - Parallel port pin settings
15:25 - Axes configuration, lead pitch
16:49 - Axes configuration, velocity and acceleration
18:53 - Affects of hardware on step precision and speed
20:45 - Limits and homes
22:48 - Running the AXIS GUI
24:51 - Loading a gcode file
Russtuff's LinuxCNC playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4P26_5EBiyorZkSAUl897p1ISxzE3Xk
LinuxCNC docs:
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/pdf/LinuxCNC_Documentation.pdf
LinuxCNC forums:
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/
The stepper drive timing wiki page:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Stepper_Drive_Timing
Here's the full plasma build series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9xPdBFt5g3Q6TkuhhfQmQNm6TdvNkPuX
Just the LinuxCNC stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9xPdBFt5g3Qnn3ZY2wYh7L2yzZ377UwI
Additional LinuxCNC documents of mine, and links to other people's video and/or files can be found on my GitHub project here:
https://github.com/swolebro/swolebro-youtube/tree/master/linuxcnc
Help me make more cool shit:
http://paypal.me/swolebroshopworks