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DDCSV1.1 4 Axis controller
kwood94xj:
Just wondering if anyone has been able to convert a 3 axis model to a 4 axis one? I did not see anything unpopulated areas on the board that I can recall.
Benedikt:
--- Quote from: kwood94xj on August 16, 2018, 02:52:33 PM ---Just wondering if anyone has been able to convert a 3 axis model to a 4 axis one? I did not see anything unpopulated areas on the board that I can recall.
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Yes, I researched this earlier and it can be done. However, I will not give any instruction or further details on this as this would hurt the sales of the companies involved which had so far been nice to us.
But for completeness, the license check is solely implemented in software and the hardware is exactly the same on both machines.
--- Quote from: picclock on July 26, 2018, 04:05:58 AM ---Unit has 17 keys so likely 4 keys unmapped or unknown functions.
Set all zero button would be very useful. Can see no way of doing it from the rear panel connections. Maybe using TXD/RXD serial connections ? and injecting a code.
No real info about those pins, likely RS232, but baud rate, parity etc no info. According to manual - Used for digital display of the MPG communication.
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I thought a bit more about this now. There would be the option of running a new service on the controller that listens on that serial port (and disables it for MPG communication) and injects keypresses.
Technically, this could be done by hooking into the motiondev driver and writing to the external (in FPGA) USART registers. The injected keys could be delivered to the CNC application via uinput. Hooking into the startup process and creating a deamon should be trivial by just creating a startup.do file in /mnt/nand1-1
Writing to the FPGA's registers is made easy by my mutil utility that can be downloaded from here: http://dl.pandora-cnc.eu/utils/mutil/mutil_v05_arm.elf
kwood94xj:
--- Quote from: Benedikt on August 17, 2018, 06:57:33 AM ---
--- Quote from: kwood94xj on August 16, 2018, 02:52:33 PM ---Just wondering if anyone has been able to convert a 3 axis model to a 4 axis one? I did not see anything unpopulated areas on the board that I can recall.
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Yes, I researched this earlier and it can be done. However, I will not give any instruction or further details on this as this would hurt the sales of the companies involved which had so far been nice to us.
But for completeness, the license check is solely implemented in software and the hardware is exactly the same on both machines.
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Thank you Benedikt. I completely understand. They have been very good to us!
Benedikt:
--- Quote from: lfriii on July 17, 2018, 09:58:12 AM ---WeldingRod:
One other question; copied the update files from Benedikt's website to the jump drive that came with the control. I have since decided not to upgrade the firmware on the control and would like to remove the files to another location and return the jump drive to its original configuration. There are two folders on the drive, install and upgrade and two files, splash.ppm and upgrade.do on the drive that I did not save to it. Do you know if these four items were on the drive when it arrived? Or were these four items downloaded from Benedikt's site?
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You can safely delete splash.ppm, upgrade.do, install(.done) and upgrade. These have been added by the installer / extracted from the archive.
--- Quote from: lfriii on July 12, 2018, 12:43:14 PM ---I have a similar issue as blades in that I want to set a parameter outside the limits of the controller. In your post above, you instruct blades to use the configurator and then edit the values using Notepad++ on Mac / Linux before importing. Can this be done on a windows machine?
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Yes, Notepad++ is only available on Windows, so you can use Windows to edit the min/max values. On Linux/Mac you would use another programmer's editor of your choice (make sure to keep the line endings intact!).
Benedikt:
:update:
I have got great news!
This weekend I found some time and ported Pandora to the latest version of the original firmware (released in July 2018).
I have also translated all the new strings, added more utilities to the bin folder, patched the usual places of the binary and updated the scripts.
The online configuration generator at http://config.pandora-cnc.eu/ has also received a few bug fixes, updated language files and I have dealt with the new privacy requirements.
The latest Pandora version released today can be downloaded from here: http://dl.pandora-cnc.eu/firmware/bleeding/Pandora-20180818.zip
While I was at it, I have also released a new version of the Pandora/DDCSV1.1/RMHV2.1 easy firmware installer. This version includes the latest Pandora and factory firmware.
It can be downloaded from here: http://dl.pandora-cnc.eu/utils/installer/PandoraInstaller_20180826_v16.exe
Cheers! :beer:
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