I got my MPCNC running rather well with my cramps and BBB. I'm at a point where I could use a pendant control. I want to make my own using a RPI3 with a touchscreen and a physical MPG using QtQuickVcp
I'm trying to layout a roadmap to teach myself on how to do this. I done a fair amount of reading on this, but haven't physically done it yet. I know where I want to wind up, I'm just not sure on path to get there. Any comments would be appreciated. (Phase 0) Work through the hello world on a separate BBB before applying it to my MPCNC config. https://github.com/machinekoder/QtQuickVcpHelloWorld (Phase 1) Design or adapts a control panel with a virtual MPG for my MPCNC and test it out first using a Android tablet using the prebuilt MachineKitClient that I can down load from the play store. (Phase 2) Build a MachineKitClient for the RPI. I suspect once I get to this point this will all make sense, but at the moment I'm confused. I see there was a github repo for the machinekitclient https://github.com/machinekoder/MachinekitClient but it redirects to here: https://github.com/machinekoder/QtQuickVcp. How does one build project MachineKitClient for an RPI? If so, it's it a matter of just building for the RPI or is there going to be work involved in getting the touch screen for the RPI to work? (Phase 3) My understanding is that if I want to get a physical MPG working, I would need to install a RT kernal and build machinekit on the RPI since there is no precompiled binary to read the physical pulse generator. Is this correct? (No clue on how to do that yet, but I'm hoping by the time I get to this point it will make sense.) -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
