My Arduino is not accabale right now but I wanted to look at a new GUI or gcode sender program for Grbl called SourceRabbit GCode Sender. I already had the simulator compiled and ready to go and the next step was just to find a way to connect both together. I found that the program socat can do just this:
socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0,link=/tmp/ttyV0 pty,raw,echo=0,link=/tmp/ttyV1
This creates two virtual serial ports with the names /tmp/ttyV0 and /tmp/ttyV1 and connect both together. Now I just need to direct the output and input of Grbl to one of the virtual serial ports:
./grbl_sim -n > /tmp/ttyV0 < /tmp/ttyV0
To test if this works I can use a command line terminal program like miniterm and connect to the other virtual serial port
miniterm.py /tmp/ttyV1
Now that everything is working I can finally test the new SourceRabbit GCode Sender program.
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Grbl 0.9g settings for my Shapeoko
>>> $$
$0=10 (step pulse, usec)
$1=25 (step idle delay, msec)
$2=0 (step port invert mask:00000000)
$3=2 (dir port invert mask:00000010)
$4=0 (step enable invert, bool)
$5=0 (limit pins invert, bool)
$6=0 (probe pin invert, bool)
$10=3 (status report mask:00000011)
$11=0.050 (junction deviation, mm)
$12=0.002 (arc tolerance, mm)
$13=0 (report inches, bool)
$14=1 (auto start, bool)
$20=1 (soft limits, bool)
$21=0 (hard limits, bool)
$22=1 (homing cycle, bool)
$23=1 (homing dir invert mask:00000001)
$24=25.000 (homing feed, mm/min)
$25=250.000 (homing seek, mm/min)
$26=250 (homing debounce, msec)
$27=3.000 (homing pull-off, mm)
$100=87.489 (x, step/mm)
$101=87.489 (y, step/mm)
$102=640.000 (z, step/mm)
$110=4000.000 (x max rate, mm/min)
$111=4000.000 (y max rate, mm/min)
$112=650.000 (z max rate, mm/min)
$120=15.000 (x accel, mm/sec^2)
$121=15.000 (y accel, mm/sec^2)
$122=15.000 (z accel, mm/sec^2)
$130=204.000 (x max travel, mm)
$131=204.000 (y max travel, mm)
$132=54.000 (z max travel, mm)
ok
DD WRT OPENVPN setup for Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (03/25/13) mega
This is how I configured OPEN VPN on my DD WRT router:
All the key generation tutorials are still good, but with the new firmware most of the settings are now in GUI:
Internal local IP range: 192.168.0.0/24
VPN IP range 192.168.66.0/24
DNS extra settings:
interface=tun2
settings
push "route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0"
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.66.1"
push "comp-lzo no"
fire wall rules:
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp --dport 1194 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD 1 --source 192.168.66.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -i br0 -o tun2 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -i tun2 -o br0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.66.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
Client File, like client1.ovpn:
remote xxx.dyndns.org 1194
client
remote-cert-tls server
dev tun0
proto udp
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
float
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
SECRET blablabla
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
SECRET blablabla
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
SECRET blablabla
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
New Robocut 1.0.7 released.
I just released a new version of Robocut with just some minor changes. A user informed me that his plotter used the USB ID 111C. So I hard coded this ID in the program as well. Please send me an email if there are other IDs that are not in by default. There is a test that can be done to check if the new ID works first. Just convert the ID from hex (111e) to dec (4382) and start robocut like this:
robocut –usb-product-id 4382
If the new hardware works let me know and I will add it to the program.