CNC Motion Control with LinuxCNC + Mesa FPGA Card 

You are like This Old Tony with a german accent. Every single video that you do makes me laugh.

I know very few people on this planet who can single-handedly build an industrial grade CNC machine from scratch, being the electrical engineer, the mechanical engineer, the software engineer, and the product designer all at the same time. This takes DIY and creativity to another dimension.

I've never simultaneously been so much intrigued and entertained. Still one of my favorite channels. Thank you

You are a master, i mainten and repair CNC machines in a factory, also build myself a cnc router. Watching your videos i can only think what a pleasure and honor it would be to work and learn from you. Hands down the best chanel on youtube for me.

Damn, I love this cnc series. Keep up the good work!

WOW, I think that the is one of the most ambitious project yet, really nice work and you are flying through the progress.Nice, good look in future !

This project is looking even more hilariously expensive with every new video!! Awesome though!!

The I term in PID not only affects the reaction speed of the system, but also ensures error is being zeroed-out over time. Without it the error, however small it might become thanks to high P gain, will always remain there.

Best unboxing ever. I thoroughly enjoy your sense of humor.

We are certainly not inching over here😂😂😂 Made my day

You are a genius. I retrofitted a couple of 5kW servomotors a while back and they always shoke a bit. Today I opened the motors and wrapped aluminium tape around everything. The results were impressive, not very pretty, but Impressive none of the less.

Marco, Every new video is enlightening. Thank you for doing what you do.

Love the Dungeon Keeper sound effects splattered throughout your videos.

Congrats on 100k! Your channel and content is inspiring!

U are the best!!! I started to use the mesa 7i76e, and I am now inplemententing the feedback from the linear scales to linuxCNC for a HELLER BEA 2

"surprise reboot" I am suprised that one isnt more common xD

Glorreiche Glückwünsche für die 100tsd Marco!

Congrats on the 100k. Looking forward to that red carpet reveal!

14min Reps...love this day 😍 (Grüße aus Karlsruhe ;) )

I just found your vids, and love them now. Thanks for making these vids!

Congrats on the 100K subs btw dude!

Glückwunsch zu den hunderttausend! Der Kanal ist es definitiv wert, aber ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass das so schnell geht - vor allem, weil es ja doch eher "Nischenthemen" sind. Aber auch wenn man die Videos nur wegen des Humors anschaut, sind sie bereits äußerst sehenswert :-)

Congratz on 100K subs! Keep up the good funny and informing videos😃👍!!!

Congratulations on 100K!

Why do I love this channel?

Nice overview and good work. I was surprised a few years ago when I found Mesa Controls was located near my house. Not often can you check the "will call" button when buying stuff on the web, and no Customs Inspectors to worry about. Great hardware too. :)

Proofs-of-Concept are seldom very pretty. :)

Kuddelmuddel gelöst. Glückwunsch Stefan.

5:17: There is an alien outside looking into the room.

congrats on 100k subs!!

Congrats, well deserved play button

saw the hanging drive at @6:30. nonetheless, great job and congrats for the youtube package

OMG surprise reboot !! that was a good one bro

Hi from the USA. I have been following your posts for quite some time. I particularily like your dry sence of humor sprinkled in with the narative. You have answered a question for me. I have a 3018 Pro and I wanted to know if I could control it with a Pi4; this episode has told me NO, so thanks and please keep posting.

That Spindle looks dope! Greetings from Hessen....

Yet another awesome video 👍

Its moving 👌👍👍 Good work!

+1 for Mesa FPGA addin cards and LinuxCNC combo. Converted our vmc with them, wouldn't ever want to go back

I like your humor. I had a lot of fun watching this. Thanks!

Hey, I recognize that enclosure, that is a Rittal, they make great stuff, we use them in our designs at work quite a bit.

that package opening is legendary

Just discovered you (and have been binge watching your vijeos ever). I have the EE experience of a mole rat but you and that auzi make it pretty entertaining and educational...

great video, makes the entry into linuxcnc much less daunting

Oh that remote is just gorgeous! I don't even have my own CNC machine but I want one of those XD

Congrats man !

Awesome as always

Congrats on the yt plaque dude

"We're certainly not inching over here" - gold!

Man, this is better than science fiction! Nais!

Dude, what a nightmare! 😱 I just relieved all the PID tuning videos I had to see for quadcopters! The horror! 😱

funniest tech channel on youtube!

Ach geil die cnc Maschine läuft ja schon

Ah, Vogel Zentralschmierung :-) I know Mr. Vogel personally. Nice to see their products at your nice machine :-)

This is very skillful

Congratulations!

I love your videos. I have been considering building a cnc myself. Any particular reason you didn't use odrive as a motor controller?

When I see hanging ssd and fan I know your level is master.

Do you have any issues with cogging of the servo motors in this setup? Just given how rigid the whole thing is I'm curious if they get damped out or if you can get things ringing with a specific axis moving at certain speeds? (Or maybe the servos are nice enough to either compensate or just not have that much cogging torque).

I think that amazing CNC deserves a vacuum table as a good update to clamps.

Love your videos dude! Did you see that guy outside looking in through the glass blocks! Creepy! ... unless it was you being an Easter egg. 😎

Thank you so much for putting some context around the Mesa card on linuxcnc. Trying to get a handle on how these pci controllers work with linuxcnc is a little bit overwhelming if you just try to read the Linuxcnc forum pages. Question : if you were using steppers and stepper drivers like geckodrive's, but still needing the same amount of relays and controls over water cooling pumps, and the VFD and sensors, would you still choose ; 1. To use linuxcnc over something like Mach3 ? 2. To use pci type motion controllers instead of parallel port or USB external boards?

Thanks for the video. Board 6i24 configured as 5i24, right? Feed forward helps a lot to reduce following error in axes tuning. Trying to keep following error =0 often makes axes nervous. The important thing is that error has to be the same for all the interpolating axes.

Hello Marco, can a single 5I24-16 run three linear encoders, mpg, 4 step/dir servos, 6 end switches, vfd ? can you use normal optoisolated breakoutboards?

Silly surprise reboot!

Pneumatic tool changing on that spindle?! Awesome!

Great video but I have a question. If you were looking for positional accuracy, why did you leave the Integration part of the PID to 0? Thanks and keep up the good work.

It must be an even bigger enjoyment to watch these videos if you actually know what he ist talking about

Marco, have you tuned the sensors less vector parameters on the MX2 and switched it into RPM mode ? I've been using the MX2 via EtherCAT there a really nice drive and very cost effective.

AvE style unboxing. Nice.

Great Video! :D

Have you taken a look at UCCNC? I am really enjoying my UC300 with the UB1 breakout board

My computer is a PC in a regular enclosure that's connected to a Mesa 7i76e card over Ethernet. The 7i76e has an RS-485/422 port on it, but it's currently only used to communicate with Mesa daughter cards. I want to reconfigure that to communicate with my VFD for spindle control, so I don't have to run a separate RS-485 cable from the PC to the controls cabinet.

Third lunch break, lol. pause, like, comment, continuing to watch.

Nice work as usual. Danke. Drop by the Linuxcnc.org forum if you have some time to spare, it would be nice to have the log/pics/video uploaded there. I am tommylight there. MFG, Tom.

"Surprise reboot" sounds like a really useful bios feature...

I literally just ordered a Mesa 7I76e yesterday to try LinuxCNC for a router I'm building and Marco posts a video about this today. Weird.

1:20 the expression. Excellent.

What type and make of spindle do you use on your cnc? Also is that a capto tooling system ?

Fantastic!

Rs485 is very useful. Most of the industrial refrigeration control systems I work on use this.

nice turbo molecular pump spindle there... does it have a coat too, where is it? seems chilly in space without atoms...

Automatic tool changing on the spindle?! Respectable piece of equipment you got going on there.

I used a 7i43 back in the day. It was _high win_ .

You should check out Klipper for your printers. Basically, a Raspberry Pi does all the gcode translation and kinematics, and then sends scheduled movement commands to a microcontroller for real-time execution.

That unboxing was almost AvE style :D

Now I need that card and somebody who will make mod for Euro Truck Simulator 2, so I could plug all possible inputs and outputs (steering wheel, pedals, dashboard, pneumatic chair,...)

Hi! I'm recently decided to move up from Mach3 to Linuxcnc my 2 cnc milling mashines, but there is the problem with one of them. It has kinematic system with moving X/Y by the table and spindle moves jus in Z axis. How did u described to linuxcnc cinematic of yours mashine? If i change direction of movement in INI file there is a gap between actual movements and linuxcnc program coordinate system. If i switching all preferences to cooperate program coordinate system with actual movement my keyboards hotkeys works in opposite side ("=>" key means "X-", "

Nice MPG. Hope to see a video on the set up. Where did you get it?

I wrote my thesis about my own DC PID servos which I build on Atmega32 and C Lang. Then I created a little CNC machine using LinuxCNC. It was fun but much less sophisticated then what we see here :) cudos

Very nice project. Congratulations!!! Are you planning to open source the project?

When you have me laughing while I'm learning about mesa -> linuxcnc linkage, yep that's a subscribe

On the 3D printer accuracy front, have you checked out Klipper? I would think it would solve a lot of issues since it does most of the brain work so that the controller can focus on properly commanding the steppers.

Yay congrats :-D

1:19 you looks so happy LOL

this guy is just too smart for me

That PID running sounds complicated! I presume custom tuning is not needed for the steppers that have built in driver and feedback system?

Where are you going to put the Retro Turbo Encabulator now that you have that big CNC in there?

Finally Marco Reps shows his face!

What the hell is that super powerful 3D printer ?? :)

Your pendant looks awesome (7:24)! Where did you get it?