digiexchris / electronic-leadscrew-zephyr-rtos

The building blocks for your own lathe automation

Supported Targets
STM32F103C8T6	(Blue Pill)

Leadscrew Warranty Voider

This is an electronic leadscrew inspired by espELS and Clough42. It aims to make threading easier on lathes that use manually changed changegears.

Setup

• docker desktop with a wsl backend, and install winget install --interactive --exact dorssel.usbipd-win to allow usb passtrhough
• have the vscode dev containers extension, and rebuild and reopen in container
• open a terminal in the container to /workspaces/Electronic-Leadscrew-Zephyr-RTOS/ and execute west init
• run build.bat with one of the supported boards, eg build.bat rpi_pico

Running the Tests

deprecated

• add ZEPHYR_SDK to your environment variables for your user, this is the path to the bin dir that contains the zephyr gdb for arm
• install qemu, add bin dir to path
• use the Debug Tests launch configuration

electronic-leadscrew-zephyr-rtos's Issues

How is your progress with this?

Hello, I recently installed the ESPels project that you collaborated on, and I liked many of your ideas when reading the issues. I'd like to hear if you've had any time to implement any of them. Fair warning; I don't have the technical background that you have, so the very technical might require some research on my part. If I may be of assistance in your endeavor, I am at your service. I also took notice of your power feed project, I have a milling machine as well. Not to push, but I also have a surface grinder that I have fantasized about automating. In any case, after looking at what you've done here, it's nice to see the code so organized. As someone who doesn't do this for a living, I'm relieved that it makes more sense when put together in an intuitive way. I'll look forward to seeing your reply, if you would like a more comprehensive description of my saga to eliminate the noise of the gearbox, just ask. Jesse was a great help, and it was something of a struggle to get everything to build, but it's in now and I believe it works the way he intended. I had some suggestions, but I think his vision has been realized. It was a lot of work, I'm sure.