On Thursday 16 February 2017 11:42:46 Todd Zuercher wrote: > The tabs don't have to encompass the whole pyvcp window, only the > items in the box that needs to change. I can't guess how much load it > may add to your puny little pi. Can't imagine it would be a whole > lot.
I was thinking of its only a gig of ram. Every other machine on the premesis has 2G's minimum. > Unfortunately I don't think pyvcp does dynamic anything (hence why the > tabs hack to start with) including using anything other than a mouse > click for selecting the tabs. > Only partially true, Todd. The mouse click HAS to enter the pyvcp code somehow, and if a mouse click can get in, so can the output of a couple comparators being driven by these detectors I'll put in if they worek well. I don't want them full time active, but if I stop the spindle and move the belt to a different position, the comparator should be able to output from an edge detector whose output has been debounced for say 5 seconds, then store the detector state in 4 or 5 mu2's. Then send the tab control whichever detector is matching the current state. That could handle the tach display only. And I've already got a triplet of leds to tell me I need to change gears written into in the xml file. But none of the hal code for that has been written yet. Plus I already have 3 more leds above those three, first one turns green when motion.motion-enabled is true, else red, and two more that are red normally, but turn green to show fwd or rev. Tied to the raw velocity from the encoder. The chuck only has to move 2 degrees to turn one of them green for about 1/2 a second. Thats live full time as its tapped off the encoder in parallel with the rigid tapping stuff. So I think its possible I just haven't commanded froggy to wave the Magic Twanger yet... ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
