Re: RoboFac / Stewart-Gough Platform / Hexapod Milling Machine

I posted, asking how to set up BDI EMC for hexapods but no one
answered :(

Graham


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Wille Padnos
<spadnos@s...> wrote:

> Simon Arthur wrote:
>
> >I looked at EMC, but decided that it didn't have the capabilities

I

> >needed. It's difficult to code for, requiring a special version

of Linux

> >and having an awkward build system.
> >
> >
> Did you ever find the BDI (Brain Dead Install)?
>
> It's a full Debian-based Linux distribution on a bootable CD. It
> includes the RealTime kernel, and EMC. Just install and go.

You'll

> have to change some .ini file parameters to use a Stewart

platform, plus

> some other stuff regarding axis resolutions and what-not, but it

should

> be pretty easy to get started.
>
> Just go to http://www.linuxcnc.org, and click on "Get Started With

the

> Brain Dead Install"
>
> As for coding, there is an option to install a "full development
> system", which allows you to do work on EMC (I'm pretty sure it
> sincludes everything now). You don;t have to recompile the Linux

kernel

> to get it to work - it's a realtime kernel to begin with. You

shouldn't

> need to make any changes to EMC anyway, since it already handles

Stewart

> platforms (though it may not deal correctly with head orientation -

it

> may just act like a 3-axis machine - I'm not sure about that).
>
> - Steve