linuxcnc for fun & profit
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LinuxCNC For Fun & Profit(now with deadly lasers)
Alastair D’Silva@EvilDeece
LCA 2016
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Water Cooling
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Buy one now for only $540!
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Original control board
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Parallel Port breakout board
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Motor control
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FlexPCB interface
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End stops
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G0 X0 Y0(fire laser)G0 X100 Y0(fire laser)G0 X100 Y100(fire laser)G0 X0 Y100(fire laser)Measure and update the millkins config with the skew
Calibration
a b
c
cos(ϴ/2) = ((b/2)2 + c2 - (a/2)2) / bc
ϴ
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Interfacing the laser PSU
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Configure Pulse Per Inch (PPI) mode
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Demo
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Problems
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Invert laser control so it is off while the computer is bootingRaster ScansCoolant Temperature/Flow & Lid interlocksAdd Replicape support to MachineKit & move to Beaglebone BlackWebcam MonitoringJog controls
Future
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Slide 3 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CO2-LASER-ENGRAVER-CUTTER-ENGRAVING-CUTTING-MACHINE-CARVING-40W-LASER-PRINTER-/321808036566Slide 5 www.ebay.com.au/itm/5-axis-CNC-Breakout-Board-with-optical-coupler-For-Stepper-Motor-Driver-MACH3-/172045790779Slide 6 http://www.aliexpress.com/item/M542-Leadshine-256-Microstep-driver-2-phase-4-2A-DC18-48V-fit-57-86-motor-for/32341077087.htmlSlide 11 http://www.buildlog.net/blog/2011/12/getting-more-power-and-cutting-accuracy-out-of-your-home-built-laser-system/
Credits
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Background:Currently an open source developer with IBM's
Ozlabs, this talk does is not endorsed by IBM and does not reflect their opinions
One of the co-founders of MHVHobby business “Crankybot” making science based
jewllery
Preparing for christmas markets, building lots of stock. Water cooling failed.
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This is why – the adapter connecting the hose was hot-glued in, and the water got warm enough (after a day of operation) to soften the hotglue and the adapter popped out.
Cooling of the tube failed, and the tube current dropped from 12mA to 0.
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Needed a replacement in a hurry, found a similar replacement shipped from Sydney for $540.
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We tried the software it came with (CorelLaser + pirated Coreldraw). Rastered well, but there was no power control of the laser through software, so we could not vector engrave.
Decided to go back to LinuxCNC which we were running on the original machine.
LinuxCNC is a framework, with a couple of typical applications that are used, but is completely extensible.
Can drive simple 2-3 axis machines, lathes, 5 axis, multidimensional robots. Can drive steppers, servos, DC motors + position feedback.
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First thin to do is get the machine talking to the PC. LinuxCNC can't use USB for the realtime components, so the parallel port is the typical method for cheap machines.
Can also use FPGA boards for faster step rates, or use MachineKit on the Beaglebone Black to leverage the PRU microcontrollers for much higher step rates.
Limiting factor on the step when bit-bashing steppers is the latency jitter from realtime linux. Some tricks to reduce it, such as tying interrupt handling to 1 core and running applications on another.
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Once you have data flowing out, need to get it into a motor.
Microstepping controller synthesizes virtual steps by moving the motor between it's physical steps. Increases resolution, but trades off torque and linearity. We use it to get smoother curves.
Take step and direction pulses, and increment the stepper motor position accordingly. To correlate it correctly, you need to know how many steps per unit distance is required. First approximation by looking at the belt pitch, motor gear teeth, and microsteps per revolution.
Problem: X motor & end-stop interfaced via flex-pcb.
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Fabricate an interface on protoboard using 28 gauge wire-wrap wire soldered directly to the flexpcb.
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Tell the machine when an axis is at the limit of travel. Commonly a microswitch or photointerruptor.
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Next we calibrate the motion of the machine.
Manually cut 2 points 100mm apart, then measure the distance and update the config to correct for the error.
Next, cut 4 points on the corners of a square, use a bit of trig to calculate the skew of the machine, and use the “millkins” kinematics module to correct the skew. This maps the logical coordinates that the g-code refers to, to physical positions on the machine axes.
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The computer needs to be able to fire the laser.
There are 2 lines on the PSU to do this, one is ative high and one is active low.
Used an SMD optocoupler with a pullup resistor to drive the active-low line to ground when the line from the parallel port goes high.
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Motion requires acceleration, which means that you have varying speeds. On a laser, this means that if the laser power is held constant, you end op with varying power per unit area, with more power delivered at the start/end of cuts when the head is under acceleration.
Use a plugin to configure PPI mode, where the user nominates power per area (as pulses per mm), rather than raw constant power to the laser.
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Demo
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Big problem: some parallel outputs come up high, which leaves the laser on until LinuxCNC is started and takes control.
Laser parked over a hole in the bottom of the machine, burnt a hole through the table and set it on fire.
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Fix the laser state on powerup!
Test raster scanl
Add interlocks for coolant temperature & flow, safety interlock on the lid
Add support for Replicate to Machinekit so I can use the TMC2100 stepper controllers for quieter/faster operation
Webcam monitoring
Jog controls
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Slide 3 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CO2-LASER-ENGRAVER-CUTTER-ENGRAVING-CUTTING-MACHINE-CARVING-40W-LASER-PRINTER-/321808036566Slide 5 www.ebay.com.au/itm/5-axis-CNC-Breakout-Board-with-optical-coupler-For-Stepper-Motor-Driver-MACH3-/172045790779Slide 6 http://www.aliexpress.com/item/M542-Leadshine-256-Microstep-driver-2-phase-4-2A-DC18-48V-fit-57-86-motor-for/32341077087.htmlSlide 11 http://www.buildlog.net/blog/2011/12/getting-more-power-and-cutting-accuracy-out-of-your-home-built-laser-system/
Credits