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Hi eggy,

You could probably patch into the load 1, load 2, tool enable and tool direction control lines on the DB25 connector to perform simple triggering on the PLC.

Rob

Well, I found someone to move that Chinese 1325 laser cutter from Sydney at a reasonable price, so this is going to be my test bed. It didn't come with the original PCI/DSP controller, which is fine. Already found a NOS tube for it at half price too, thus solving the reason it wasn't working in the ...

Just managed to get a complete firmware build in Raspberry OS. I'm attaching a file for anyone who would care to test it, since I don't yet have the hardware.

Very pleased tonight! I love my new Pi 400.

As mentioned to Doug via email I'm also looking into the possibility of using the Banana Pi M4 board. It's very similar to the Pi 3B, a little cheaper if sourced correctly, and most importantly it's actually available right now. And since I only have one Pi 3B on hand, that's an important point. It ...

Pleased to report that the firmware for this project builds just fine in the latest version of Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 400, so it looks as if I have a hardware platform running almost-native Debian Linux after all. The only small issue I noticed is that Perl complains about locale setting, but th...

Final questions have been answered. HTML won't build because db15_breakout.svg and db25_breakout.svg are being called before they're copied to the build directory. I've just commented them out in the pug templates for now. As for the issue of building CAMotics, that's probably because I'm already in...

By about 4:30am it had become clear that the main issue was the dinosaur version of OS specified in the docs. Debian 9.6.0 contains gcc-avr version 4.9.2 which just doesn't cope with avrxmega3 chips at all. Never did, never will. So, I expunged that garbage and installed Debian 11.3 - which has acce...

By fishing around in the code I managed to find both the device-specs file and libraries for the ATTiny3216, which is handy. Figuring out where to install them was a little of a challenge but that went fine eventually.

However ...
Now I remember why I hate Linux.

Made some minor progress on the github code, which I finally got around to confronting tonight. What was stopping me originally was an error in the html generation, which was confusing because I know nothing about pug although I've used similar code generation tools. Anyhow, since that's completely ...

In compliance with Open Source rules, I have forked the BuildBotics repositories and any changes that occur will be posted at https://github.com/haiqu?tab=repositories

So far there have been none of any consequence.