PnP feeder

I have seen the video's and the github code . He is also on this site, I am glad to see he also has a web site.

I got some video of a feeder and the rack actuators working. I decided to hot wire it instead of waiting
for the operational machine to run a job. I will be posting the video of it up later tonight.

I uploaded video to my channel on Youtube. I hope it answers everyone's questions thus far. If anyone needs video of something else on the machine let me know. I will see what I can do.

Youtube

on a side note why does it take over 30 minutes to upload a not even 2 minute video in standard definition on Youtube.

So just to get an idea of the scope of your project. Are you using OpenPNP to create the gcode and need to find a way to operate the feeders while running the code in linuxCNC or do you plan on creating the gcode yourself?

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Either way I guess you would have to write some macros that operate the valves for the feeder mechanism using digital outputs with M62-M68 commands.

Aciera . Actually I want to mimic how OpenPnP works, but do it exclusively with LinuxCnC and as I said the biggest problem that I see with OpenPnP is the fact that it relies on Windows 10 and Windows has a very bad habit of taking your commands and saying " I will get to it if and when I feel like it". For me this project will be a very steep learning curve especially since I am not a computer programmer....yet. That said so was learning EFI, CAD/CAM, CNC machining, anodizing and PCB layout software , if I could learn how to do that, I can learn how to do this. If I get stuck that's what YouTube and the Forums are for.
I hope this didn't come across as argumentative that was in no way my intention.

EDIT- I later found out that OpenPnP also runs on Linux. Thank you Aciera for bringing that to my attention.

I see. I don't have any experience using PnP but it looks very interesting particularly the machine vision.

the biggest problem that I see with OpenPnP is the fact that it relies on Windows 10

Regarding openPNP, there are also Downloads for Mac OSX and Linux. openpnp.org/downloads/

I stand corrected.