Touchscreen operation with iPad possible?

Hi there,

I LOVE working with Axis but sometimes pushing all those sliders back and forth is a pain in the a**
Would it be possible to write some kind of "remote control" software for e.g. iPad which connects to LinuxCNC via WLAN?

The iPad could just be used as a frontend and show the basic operations and sliders.
It could be so very easy and comfortable to work this way.

Anyone sees a chance to implement this?
Best regards!

careyer

I have 3.25 machines using LinuxCNC and I can't remember when I used a slider... seems like almost anything is possible but you wonder why no one has done it.

John

Well..

on the left side of the screen there are several sliders in the Axis interface. e.g. for maximum machine speed, spindle overdrive, axis speed and so on.....
My idea was to have all those controlls on a portable touch screen device such as an Ipad or android tablet.


best regards
Thomas

I have some machines with that as knobs built into the machine but I can't imagine having something loose to do those functions... but what do I know? Give it a shot and see what happens.

John

I've been thinking along the same lines. I want to use an Android device (phone or Kindle) as a jog pendant, with virtual knobs.

I LOVE working with Axis but sometimes pushing all those sliders back and forth is a pain in the a**

Not as high tech but you can pick up those functions with a usb device such as a joypad, I use mine on larger machines with a 6 ' extension.

I also thought that a small 7" ? touch screen monitor might be neat with a custom gui.

Rick G