Barnworks shop update

So I ordered the cards today and with two 4x4 kepads I might have found a solution for additional buttons in addition to the existing and the touch screen.

Hi there,
I am currently working on a retrofit for a morbidelliU13 machine, also using the mesa 7i97 card. Since we need more I/O, I am thinking of using the 7iA0 daughter card. I am wondering if you could share some experience with your setup. Was it easy to install? Is it supported by linuxcnc 2.8? Any tips and tricks?
Kind regards, Felix

no real upstes to the shop for a long time. The machines have their own threads and I am currently moving house.
Starting a new job over a year ago lead to buying a new house with a new shop. So while waiting for the permission to remodel the house, I started on the workshop with a lot of pressure washing and cleaning the floor and filling the old crap way with concrete and seal it





then installing a staircase to rech the 2nd level of the former stables to rech the future workshop of my wife.



next step is to put in new windows and maybe some insulating before I am ready to move the heavy machines.

still figuring out my shop setup, but I have a rough Idea now:



sorry for it being in German, and Wully is the Fehlmann Picomax 100  mill, Ditte the Gildemeister lathe, Jülia is my pickup
space an comfort wise this will be a step up from my current workshop and miles away from my first one in my apartment bedroom 

looks like you will have quite the shop when you're done.

really looking forward when to it. Still will take some time cause it is just hobby.
But I was able to setup the temporary workbenches.



the mid room shelves are also setup an I brought most of the boxes over:





 

when your plan is not to ay any more tools before moving...
but your wife drags you to a garage sale...

looks like renovating and moving while having a full time job takes much longer than expected.
But finally this weekend I was able invite over some friends to celebrate the latest incarnation of ma shop.
a lot has happend in the last years to get the shop to the state wehere I can continue using and working on my linuxcncn machines.

first step was to close up the hole for the never installed window and it would be blocked by a machine anyway

the it was time to insulate nd cover the first wall cause here will land the heavy machine I can't move on my own.

the it was tie to haul the first smaller machines by myself 

the wood shop and the fabric shop of my wife well be upstairs so I hoisted them up

Then it was moving day, the crew arrived with two truck and a forklift, I would haul my trailer in addition.

Loading went really fast with on truck on the street and on in the courtyard. at the new house both needed to fit in the courtyard cause the street is to narrow to park a truck there.

first we unloaded my wife's carding machine to the 2nd floor

where I could move it around on my own:

while the professionals brought in the mill and the lathe.

this was moving day.

the old barn windows were really drafty and I want the shop to be more usable in winter I installed additional modern windows. 

 after getting the breaker box in my house 

 I could setup the new boxes in the workshop