A quick spoiler: Easel does not yet have a local sender that works on Linux, so we'll be using a separate piece of software for sending the GCode to the Shapeoko.
Fair warning: this post gets slightly technical.
Here's the workflow I came up with:
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Monday, October 27, 2014
Shapeoko+Arduino+Raspberry Pi+Easel
Over at the Easel beta tester's mailing list we started talking about running a shapeoko on odd hardware, and I mentioned that I run mine on Raspberry Pi. The developers (Chris B) chimed in to ask if Easel worked on Raspian. Well, after a bit of back and forth, I came up with this workflow to use Easel on Raspberry Pi.
A quick spoiler: Easel does not yet have a local sender that works on Linux, so we'll be using a separate piece of software for sending the GCode to the Shapeoko.
Fair warning: this post gets slightly technical.
Here's the workflow I came up with:
A quick spoiler: Easel does not yet have a local sender that works on Linux, so we'll be using a separate piece of software for sending the GCode to the Shapeoko.
Fair warning: this post gets slightly technical.
Here's the workflow I came up with:
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